Photodentro Saas: Sowing the Seeds for an Ecosystem of “Photodentro” Open Educational Resource Repositories

Abstract

The "Photodentro SaaS" initiative drives the expansion of the Photodentro ecosystem of Open Educational Resource (OER) repositories. The initiative is based on the "Software as a Service" model (SaaS), allowing for all interested organisations to implement a Photodentro repository to manage, describe, and publish their digital artefacts. The benefits are twofold: (i) the new content provider gains exclusive access to a standards-based digital repository, integrating the best practices and workflows specifically designed to meet the needs of OER for K12 education; (ii) being part of the Photodentro ecosystem, all resources of the new repository are readily available and profit of high visibility through the web portal of the Photodentro Greek National Educational Content Aggregator.