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Sakai Development: Post Six

sjm62 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:45:24 +0000

In which I finally am able to import Sakai into the eclipse IDE, the designated development environment. And at the end I am left wondering whether all the work has been worth it – I might have been better off developing with a text editor, old school style.

The full post is on my personal blog here.

Sakai Development: Post Five

sjm62 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:07:12 +0000

In which I add LDAP authentication to the test Sakai installation, and sort out a bizarre issue with the Resources tool: a complete lack of the hooks and buttons needed to add content.

The full post is on my personal blog here.

Sakai Development: Post Four

sjm62 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:10:13 +0000

In which I finally get the test Sakai installation working, and learn about some apache modules which I have not used before which are needed to work around the problems.

The full post is on my personal blog here.

Sakai Development: Post Three

sjm62 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:19:23 +0000

In which I work my way through the compilation of Sakai several times, ending up with a limited amount of success and experience a fair amount of frustration. This is where things start to get quite technical.

The full post is on my personal blog here.

Sakai Development: Post Two

sjm62 — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:59:30 +0000

The virtual host is now operational, so it is time to start setting up the environment for installing the Sakai CLE (2.8.2) from source. Lots of fairly technical detail as to how I set up java, tomcat, mysql and so on. The full details are available on my personal blog.

Sakai Development: Post One

sjm62 — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:06:38 +0000

A short post in lieu of not yet having a development environment available. The full content is available on my personal blog.

Sakai Development Diary – Prelude

sjm62 — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:53:41 +0000

My next major job will be to write an extension to the Sakai research environment software which enables the deposit of material from Sakai to some SWORD2 compliant repository. (SWORD2 is a protocol for the deposit of digital materials into repositories, so this is a reasonably sensible project to undertake.)

My Sakai background is negligible, so I will be starting from scratch. I have had a look round the Sakai website, and had a chat to some people who know the system better than I do, and have not been left much wiser than when I started. This is really the reason behind this diary: it does not look easy to pick up the information that is needed to start developing for Sakai, and documenting how I went about it and what worked should therefore be helpful to the Sakai community.

First Impressions

In which I look at the online information about Sakai and SWORD2, with an eye to finding the information needed for development work.

For more go here.

Progress update: February 2012

Jez Cope — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:20:08 +0000

Progress update: February 2012

On Thursday 2 February 2012, we got together for a project team meeting, so leading on from that, here’s a brief progress report:

As we’re starting to get a number of requests for help specifically related to research data management, we agreed to set up a queue on RT (Request Tracker, our support ticket tracking system) to deal with these; this will give users a single point of contact and allow us to measure the volume and type of incoming queries and our capacity to deal with them;
The university’s data management web page has been updated and tweaked to provide a more useful experience until we have fully redeveloped that area of the website;
Project start up (Work Package 1) is now complete;
We are currently recruiting participants for a CARDIO survey to assess perceptions of our current data management infrastructure and capacity; it’s likely we’ll be following this up by interviewing selected respondents; (WP2 Requirements analysis)
Work has begun on our Roadmap for submission to EPSRC; (WP3.1 Implementation plan/roadmap)
Neil Beagrie is making good progress with interviewing stakeholders for the business case; (WP3.2 Sustainability and business model)
We will be running a hybrid training session and focus group on data management planning (DMP) with second-year DTC students in mid February; we are also planning how we can get feedback on DMPonline from students in the Centre for Digital Entertainment, given that they are based out in industry with their placement partners; (WP3.3 Data management planning/WP6 Liaison, training & advocacy)
A rough draft of our high-level data management policy has been produced and is now in the process of being refined; Cathy Pink will be attending the forthcoming workshop on policy development; (WP4 Policy development)
We are getting closer to appointing the systems developer who will help us develop and pilot an interface between our VRE, iSusLab, and a pilot repository via SWORD2; in the meantime, we will be making progress by planning how we will pilot Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs); (WP5.2 Research workflow & data deposit)
Work has begun on our data storage guidelines; (WP5.3 Data storage guidelines)
After a very valuable meeting in January, at which we learned more about CERIF and Pure (the Current Research Information System currently being implemented at Bath), we’ve clarified Deliverable 5.4 — more on this to follow.