Skip to content

Category Archives: Sakai

Fedora plus Sakai, Any Interest?

There was a time when I was moving in both the worlds of the Sakai Collaborative Learning Environment and the Fedora Commons digital content repository. It seemed like a good idea to bring these two worlds together — Fedora as a content repository for Sakai learning objects. Back in 2006, I logged a ticket in Sakai’s tracker to see if anyone was interested. This morning I got notification that they are thinking of closing the ticket.

This is a preview of Fedora plus Sakai, Any Interest?. Read the full post (323 words, 7 images, 1:18 minutes estimated reading time)
Tagged , , ,
2010 02 23 Comments (0)

What are /you/ planning on doing when the Bird Flu hits?

This could easily go in the “Disruption in Libraries” category of DLTJ, but it is a disruption of a different sort. Are you making contingency plans to continue library services in the event a Bird Flu pandemic (or an event of similar sort) happens? A recent posting on the Sakai developer’s mailing list prompted the thought. Sakai is an open source collaboration and learning environment that is typically used for electronic courses. John Leasia of the University of Michigan wrote:

This is a preview of What are /you/ planning on doing when the Bird Flu hits?. Read the full post (265 words, 1:04 minutes estimated reading time)
Tagged ,
2007 03 12 Comments (3)

Open Source for Open Repositories — New Models for Software Development and Sustainability

This is a summary of a presentation by James L. Hilton, Vice President and CIO of University of Virginia, at the opening keynote session of Open Repositories 2007. I tried to capture the esessence of his presentation, and omissions, contradictions, and inaccuracies in this summary are likely mine and not that of the presenter.

Setting the stage

This is a moment in which institutions may be willing to invest in open source development in a systematic way (as opposed to what could currently be characterized as an ad hoc fashion) driven by these factors:

This is a preview of Open Source for Open Repositories — New Models for Software Development and Sustainability. Read the full post (1645 words, 6:35 minutes estimated reading time)
Tagged , , , , , ,
2007 01 24 Comments (5)

Sakai gets JSR-170 support; possible integration point with FEDORA?

Earlier this year, I was on a quest to hook a FEDORA content repository into the Sakai collaboration and learning environment. What looked at first to be a fairly easy integration turned out to be rather complicated and I set the project aside for another time. Today brings word from Ian Boston of a JSR-170 implementation in Sakai:

This is a preview of Sakai gets JSR-170 support; possible integration point with FEDORA?. Read the full post (252 words, 1:00 minutes estimated reading time)
Tagged , , ,
2006 11 08 Comments (1)

Fedora plus Sakai: A view from 30,000 feet

Please note: the living, editable version of this document is now on Sakai’s Confluence in the “Resources” project area.

Edited by Peter Murray, OhioLINK. This document represents a summary of comments on the Sakai Developers mailing list on April 26-28, 2006 to a question posted by this document’s editor regarding possible integration points between Fedora and Sakai. The resulting threads were:

This is a preview of Fedora plus Sakai: A view from 30,000 feet. Read the full post (1271 words, 5:05 minutes estimated reading time)
2006 04 29 Comments (5)
From the Disruptive Library Technology Jester (http://dltj.org/), printed on Thursday the 18th of March 2010 at 10:05:30 PM EDT (-0400). The URL to this page is http://dltj.org/category/sakai/

[Creative Commons Logo] This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.