SWORD2 Archive

  • Sakai Development: Post Six

    Sakai Development: Post Six

    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 [...]

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  • Sakai Development: Post Five

    Sakai Development: Post Five

    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.

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  • Sakai Development: Post Four

    Sakai Development: Post Four

    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.

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  • Sakai Development: Post Three

    Sakai Development: Post Three

    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....

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  • Sakai Development: Post Two

    Sakai Development: Post Two

    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

    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

    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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  • Progress update: February 2012

    Progress update: February 2012

    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 [...]

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