Welcome to the Humbox!

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• Welcome to the Humbox!
• An introduction to the materials repository
• Kate Borthwick (LLAS Subject Centre)

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Overview

• What is the HumBox?
• Key features
• History and background
• Guided talk through an example repository (the
  Language Box) and demo of its features
• Humbox first look

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What is the Humbox?

• The storage space for our open resources
• An online place (repository) for storing,
  managing and sharing your humanities teaching
  (TL) resources
• The latest in TL repositories added value in
  its simplicity and enhanced with Web 2.0 features
• A version of the Language Box

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Key features of the repository design

• simple to use
• simple atomic resources (no content packages)
• targeted comments
• minimal metadata
• ability to make personalised collections of
  resources
• ability to preview online
• intuitive search system
• statistical data (most downloaded/viewed etc)

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