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Hi everybody,<br>
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We just wanted to let you know about two existing projects in our
research group that may interest you. The first one is a project that
is also called CWSpace. It's a thesis-project of students to fine-tune
DSpace to the needs of our department (Computer Science at KUL
University of Leuven, Belgium). This project is being conducted
by Lieven Droogmans, Ben Bosman and Bob Vrancken. In the context of
this work, they already added RSS functionality to DSpace and currently
they are working on decentralized administration, which is also
described on the DSpace Roadmap: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.dspace.org/RoadMap">http://wiki.dspace.org/RoadMap</a><br>
More information about this project can be found at<br>
<ul>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/mt/blogs/CWSpace/">http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/mt/blogs/CWSpace/</a></li>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/hmdb/jsp/Wiki?CWSpace">http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/hmdb/jsp/Wiki?CWSpace</a></li>
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The second project we are currently working on is about automatic
metadata
generation or learning object indexation, which we abbreviate to AMG.
As a
case study, we can already automatically generate metadata for
OCW-courses. If you'd like to try this, you can go to
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/amg/tryIt.php">http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/amg/tryIt.php</a>
. This metadata could be used in other tools like e.g in the project
cwspace. More information
about this project can be found at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/amg">http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/amg</a><br>
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Best Regards,<br>
The Ariadne Team<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
"Any attempt to print Murphy's laws will jam the printer..."
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Joris Klerkx
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Departement Computerwetenschappen
Celestijnenlaan 200A, A03.33
B-3001 Leuven</pre>
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From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dspace-lor-bounces@MIT.EDU">dspace-lor-bounces@MIT.EDU</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:dspace-lor-bounces@MIT.EDU">mailto:dspace-lor-bounces@MIT.EDU</a>] On
Behalf Of William Reilly
Sent: 24 January 2005 22:56
To: Petsche, Kevin F
Cc: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dspace-lor@MIT.EDU">dspace-lor@MIT.EDU</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dspace-general@mit.edu"><dspace-general@mit.edu></a>
Subject: [Dspace-lor] Re: [Dspace-general] Ability to replace existing
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<pre wrap="">On Jan 24, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Petsche, Kevin F wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
I was just reading through Beatrix’s post and MacKenzie’s reply about
replacing an already submitted item (and thus maintaining its
handle). Am I to conclude that the only way to do this, then, is
through the import process?
This is a significant need, I believe, if DSpace is to become a
functioning repository for reusable learning objects RLO’s). We’re
getting ready to engage a few communities here about this, but it
seems that these RLO’s are too dynamic (i.e. they’re constantly being
updated by their creators) to expect communities to go through the
full submission process each time they make an update.
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<pre wrap="">Hello Kevin,
I would be very interested to follow up with you to learn more about
the nature of your RLOs and expected usage patterns.
[I'm taking the liberty of cross-addressing this response to the DSpace
LOR (Learning Object Repository) listserv dspace-lor.]
I wanted to let you know here at MIT we are at work on a project called
CWSpace to archive MIT's OpenCourseWare in DSpace, and are quite
interested in ingesting and managing LOs (and entire course websites)
as DSpace Items. We've devised a profile for the use of the IMS
Content Package for this purpose, and we hope to extend it to usefully
accommodate the course and LO packaging needs of our other MIT LMSs
(Stellar and SloanSpace), as well as eventually Sakai.
The new import functionality is just beginning to get designed then
coded. It will need to handle IMS-CP, with (we hope) a successful
transform (XSLT) to a METS package; an importer module for one or both
of those package formats is the work ahead. Exporters for each are
also slated.
In any event, my first take on reading your post strikes me that what
we have in mind are LOs that might be considered more "final" and
"published" than what it sounds like your communities are talking
about. It would be interesting to hear just how your communities
envision using this kind of digital repository for works that remain,
to some degree, "in progress..." :^) Are they currently using
anything more along the lines of content managment systems (more
attuned to workflow, versioning, etc.)?
-- This isn't to say that we on our end won't also face "interesting"
problems concerning what to do with variants and new versions of LOs,
and of entire, re-used courses for that matter. All in the work
ahead.
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<pre wrap="">Also, where is there documentation about the import process?
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<pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dspace.org/technology/system-docs/application.html#itemimporter">http://dspace.org/technology/system-docs/application.html#itemimporter</a>
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<pre wrap="">Kevin Petsche
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<pre wrap="">Best,
William Reilly
Technical Analyst
MIT Libraries' Digital Library Research Group
Project Manager, CWSpace
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cwspace.mit.edu">http://cwspace.mit.edu</a>
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