[Server-devel] Fwd: Simple Digital Library Index System

[Martin Langhoff]

This sounds interesting. It is something I was hoping to implement
somehow, using IMS-CP (or similar) plus a repository scheme copied
from the Debian "apt" repository format, or the yum repo format.

Both repo formats are fantastic for this, very rsync, http and cache
friendly, super-scalable and distributable, etc.

The plan was (is?) to use the upcoming Moodle v2 "repository plugins"
infra to build client and server sides, but with the "protocol" being
just a trivial-looking repo format, any existing system can be a
"server". Unfortunately Moodle v2 will take a long time to be ready.

(I've reviewed GreenStone in the past, and worked with Fedora - the
_other_ one - , eprints and a few other ones. I was not impressed with
any of them.)

Not sure how this project is designed and implemented. If it does
something like the above, fantastic. It'd mean that the software
maintains the repo (which is served by bare apache), but does not need
to be running permanently. The resident memory footprint of Java is a
bit of a no-no for the XS.

In any case, it might need client code for the Moodle side so that the
content is easy to integrate into the "topic of the day" and learning
narratives...

cheers,


m

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Sameer Verma<sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mike Dawson <mikeofmanchester at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:03 AM
> Subject: Simple Digital Library Index System
> To: devel at lists.laptop.org
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> In Afghanistan we wanted to have a system that would make it as simple
> as possible to make a relatively large, replicated digital library
> accessible locally on the school server (external bandwidth here is
> about 64kbps per school).  In addition we wanted something that was
> very fast and easy to add content to (e.g. not having to type meta
> data again hundreds of times).
>
> We looked at Greenstone in particular - but that was relatively
> complex to setup and also would have been tricky to automate adding
> content to it / distributing it.  Moodle is really designed more for
> class / learning management.
>
> The system that we have made is based on Java / XSL - it makes digital
> libraries a breeze, not requiring any kind of database etc on the
> server:
>
> I have made a wiki page at:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SimpleDigitalLibraryIndex
>
> I would be interested in using OLPC project hosting for this - I
> looked at the Contributor's program on the wiki.  We have laptops here
> :) - just need project hosting.  As per the status note in the wiki I
> do have a version now that more or less does the trick - quite a few
> things to tidy up and formats to add support for.  As soon as possible
> I shall put up a demo version on our server (hopefully later this
> week).
>
> Regards,
>
> -Mike
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> How does this compare to the Moodle approach? Can't we do the same in Moodle
> although in the case of Moodle, one has to create courses and do so
> manually.
>
> Sameer
>
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> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
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