Summary In Plain-English (GrandFinale)
Students and staff at the UAL who use the e-Portfolio system (based on Mahara) will be able to select content from their personal portfolio collection attach Creative Commons licences to that content and then publish to the open web using 2 different repository systems as publishing platforms:
• Jorum (http://www.jorum.ac.uk/)
• Filestore (http://alto.arts.ac.uk/filestore/)
They will be able to do this without leaving their e-Portfolio. This means the content they publish in this manner will be retained in the long-term after they leave the UAL and their e-Portfolio system is closed. Such content will be available all over the world under the terms of the chosen Creative Commons licences and become part of their long-term online profile. Because the content has been deposited in institutional and national repository services users will be able to reference the content in the future in their CVs for professional purposes.
In the future other institutions who are using Mahara as their e-Portfolio system will also be able to implement similar services for their staff and students using our open source code.
This 4 minute video screen-cast demonstrates the near-final version of the system in action from a users point of view.
