Use case: edusources, SURFsharekit, and SRAM

SURFsharekit is a digital repository for theses, research publications, and educational resources. SURFsharekit allows students, researchers, and lecturers to share these materials with a specific group or with the whole world. The latter can be done on various portals such as the HBO Knowledge Base, edusources, and Publinova. 

• Read more about SURFsharekit here

edusources is the platform for digital (open) educational resources for Dutch education. A one-stop shop offering both educational resources and knowledge about creating, sharing, finding, and reusing digital educational resources. edusources consists of two parts: the search portal and the underlying repository, SURFsharekit. SURFsharekit stores the materials and provides metadata. 

• Read more about edusources here

SURFsharekit and edusources are connected to the SRAM platform. End users can easily authenticate to both services via SRAM, using their home institution credentials.

• Read more about SRAM for SURFsharekit and edusources here

edusources also offers the option of creating professional communities to collaborate with others. A professional community is a group of experts, often including lecturers from (different) educational institutions, working in the same field, domain, or discipline and organized around shared subject matter expertise.

• Read more about professional communities on edusources here

Below, we describe how SRAM, SURFsharekit, and edusources work together to offer this functionality. 

For organisations who wish to make use of professional communities via edusources and SURFsharekit, we recommend the following process and structure:

1. The SRAM Organisation Administrator identifies, or is contacted by, the SURFsharekit/edusources repository manager within the organisation who will be tasked with creating and/or approving requests for new Collaborations (Communities).  
2. The SRAM Organisation Administrator then creates a new Unit within their Organisation (read more about SRAM Organisation Units here) and invites the responsible person identified in step #1 to become the Unit Manager for that Unit. 
3. The Unit Manager then creates and/or approves SRAM Collaborations and invites Collaboration Admin(s). 
4. The Collaboration Admin is then responsible for connecting applications (edusources and SURFsharekit, at minimum), inviting Collaboration Members (who are mapped to professional community members on the application side), and adding Collaboration Members to Collaboration Groups. The collaboration groups may be used to grant various rights to collaboration members. Read more about managing groups, rights, and memberships for edusources here

The above structure will help with ensuring that functional tasks are handled by the most appropriate people and helps to avoid mixing requests from e.g. research and education departments. 

Do you have any questions or need support? Send a message to the service desk or via info@edusources.nl.