CURVE will aim over the course of 18 months to create a substantial body of research and learning outputs from across the institution and elsewhere by building on an established institutional repository. In particular we have the expertise to offer a considerable resource in the dance and product, automotive and transport design areas, as well as at the transition from FE to HE in health boundary.

The content of the repository (and the harvestable metadata) will be freely available to the HE and FE community and beyond. The population, enhancement and management of the repository will form the core of the project work. Learning outcomes on cultural issues and institutional implementation from these activities will also be shared with the community in a variety of ways.

In addition to the creation of the repository itself, it is proposed to carry out detailed investigations into the usefulness of learning objects deposited in it. Particular emphasis will be placed on the practical issues associated with the possible implementation of standards.

The project will achieve several key objectives:

• A sustainable and embedded interoperable repository for learning, teaching and research;

• Deposit supporting institutional policy;

• Content deposit built into workflows in learning, teaching and research;

• Documented strategies for content population.

The work will result in a number of sector wide benefits. In particular the dance learning objects collection, resources in the area of design and the internationally important digital archive of material on the Coventry motor vehicle industry, that will made available to all.