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From repositories supported by communities to communities supported by repositories: Issues and lessons learned
The Carrick Institute for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is developing the Carrick Exchange to provide a forum for sharing resources and expertise about learning and teaching. This paper reflects on relevant experience in North America with related initiatives, which highlight (a number of) issues to be considered and (a few) lessons which can be incorporated in the design and development of the Carrick Exchange. Most of the experience cited here comes from the MERLOT network. This paper also analyses the resulting reflections in the context of an independently developed taxonomy for distributed collaborations in a parallel domain: large-scale scientific collaboratories.