This is pretty interesting:

Apple Announces iTunes U on the iTunes Store

Apple® today announced the launch of iTunes® U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com) featuring free content such as course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours provided by top US colleges and universities including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Duke University and MIT.

Of course, universities with digital repositories can make the same data discoverable through services such as OAIster and RSS feeds directly form the collections but maybe doing it through iTunes narrows the type of content down in a useful way.

We have been having some discussions with external Fez devlopers who are planning features which will allow repository items to be easily showcased in podcasts and eNewsletters e.g. an ‘Add to podcast’ button. Being able to centralise an organisation’s research data (even if it is not all stored in the one place but at least all indexed in a meaningful way in one place) and construct meaningful and structured metadata opens the door to a lot of cool stuff like this.

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 10:37 am by Matthew Smith and is filed under Fez, Libraries. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.