Category Archives: ALTO System Design

The ALTO Ecosystem – the role of branding, licensing and metadata

I met with Alison James from CLTAD a while back to discuss how ALTO might be able to help support her PPD Coach website.  Our discussion was very fruitful in providing ideas about how the ALTO ecosystem concept might work … Continue reading

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Moving from Scarcity to Plenty – ALTO system design

Scarcity I have just been reading Paul Stacey’s interview over on the Creative Commons site (link). Paul works on BCCampus for the British Columbia (BC) education authorities in Canada and he makes a set of very interesting  observations about OERs … Continue reading

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One for Repo! – ALTO System Design

I have been working with a series of sustainable fashion projects that want to make use of the ALTO system and recently met with Caroline Brodhead from CSM. Caroline’s is a nice example of a project that just wanted a … Continue reading

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Licensing: think carefully before you choose! – ALTO System Design

The title of this post reminds me of that part of the Matrix film where the hero is given a choice of which pill to take and is told something like – ‘after this everything will change’. Well, this post … Continue reading

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ALTO Repository Interface Design – ALTO System Design

Ed and myself had a busy day a week last Wednesday looking at the planned home page of the ALTO repository. Our repository is going to be based on the EdShare platform from Southampton University and the team there are … Continue reading

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