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  • Sakai Development: Post Nine

    Sakai Development: Post Nine

    Posted on 10 October 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    In which I reach a staging point in my Sakai journey: not the end, but the beginning of the end, at least. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • Sakai Development: Post Eight

    Sakai Development: Post Eight

    Posted on 3 October 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    In which I have some more adventures in editing the source code reaching line 6300 of the Resources Action class, and end up on the brink of actually adding something useful to it. The full post is on my personal blog here.

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  • Sakai Development: Post Two

    Sakai Development: Post Two

    Posted on 18 July 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    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...

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  • Sakai Development: Post One

    Sakai Development: Post One

    Posted on 18 July 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    A short post in lieu of not yet having a development environment available. The full content is available on my personal blog.

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  • Sakai Development Diary – Prelude

    Sakai Development Diary – Prelude

    Posted on 18 July 2012 by sjm62 | From Research360
    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 [...]

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  • MRD Hack Days: File backup, sync and versioning, or “The Academic Dropbox”

    MRD Hack Days: File backup, sync and versioning, or “The Academic Dropbox”

    Posted on 4 May 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    This post emerged from discussions at the JISC MRD Hack Days, particularly with Joss Winn of the University of Lincoln’s Centre for Educational Research and Development. The event brought together developers and data management experts for two intensive days to discuss and prototype tools for research data management. Joss has also written a more discursive post [...]

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  • Hitachi Content Platform object store arrives

    Hitachi Content Platform object store arrives

    Posted on 12 March 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    Just a little bit of geekery really. The object store that I mentioned the other week has now arrived! The cabinet on the left in the photo is almost entirely disks. We have one for each data centre, but installing them into our existing infrastructure is a non-trivial task, so it’ll be a while before they’re [...]

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  • Object stores

    Object stores

    Posted on 20 February 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    Although my involvement in Research360 is at the level where technology and people interact, I’m also doing my best to understand how our infrastructure is developing at a much lower level so that I’m in a position to better advise non-technical stakeholders. Bath University Computing Services (BUCS) are currently in the process of procuring a new [...]

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