[OLPC library] What are you using for a repository service

[Bryan Berry]

thanks SJ,

I will have to check out the DITA standard.

I have been looking at the fedora (not Linux distro) repository server
www.fedora.info  Will try to get it installed today. It is a web service
and doesn't have an integrated GUI. I like this because it can
conceivably grow w/ the repository and not be limited by the gui

Apparently, people most often use Fez as the web-based front-end for
fedora http://sourceforge.net/projects/fez/

Does anyone in library-land you have much experience w/ either Fez or
fedora? I would really appreciate your comments.

I hope to integrate fedora w/ Moodle though I don't know how difficult
this will be.

The government is really keen right now on an "elibrary" perhaps more
keen than our learning activities we are doing in Squeak.


On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 15:26 -0500, Samuel Klein wrote:
> Hello Bryan,
> 
> DOOR is a fine service for using with Moodle; school servers will have
> Moodle available.  The .xol / .xo metadata format is very simple: a
> single file with key/value pairs for a small set of fields.  The resulting 
> package is a zip file, which makes it simple to convert between this and 
> more elaborate package formats such as the ones you mention.
> 
> We have been discussing using DITA and its open toolkit as an interchange 
> standard between metadata formats for collections that want to show up in 
> many repositories.
> 
> SJ
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Bryan Berry wrote:
> 
> > SJ,
> >
> > I am in a mad crunch to set up an eLibrary for the Gov't of Nepal's OLPC
> > lab. I have looked over the wiki pages for the library and I have
> > several questions. Hope I am not bringing up things that are already
> > explained somewhere else.
> >
> >      * What are you using for a Repository service? As far a simple
> >        service to add resources w/ the proper metadata and allows you
> >        to search through them. I have been looking at DOOR to do this
> >        because it is supposed to integrate nicely w/ Moodle
> >        http://door.elearninglab.org/website/index.php
> >      * Will the OLPC Library eventually integrate w/ Moodle?
> >      * Is this the main page of the Library?
> >      * http://dev.laptop.org/~sj/.library_pages/xo-guide/bundle_index.html
> >      * It looks like your content bundles have their own metadata
> >        standard. Will you try to make it somehow compatible w/ the IMS
> >        standard that systems like Moodle use?
> >
> > I will try to make Nepal's eLibrary close to what you guys are doing,
> > but I have to show them something by next Friday. I may have to make
> > something quick and dirty for this first round :)
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Bryan W. Berry
> > External Relations Manager
> > OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
> >
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