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The future of content hosting in sakai. Argues for more robust implementation to be the face of the DLA, DSpace, and the image store
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There is currently a beta quality JCR implementation of Content Hosting in trunk. This work was originaly done and documented in SAK-10366
. This is some good historical information available too, but that is now deprecated. This page will deal specifically with JCR information related to the ContentHostingService and parts of the Resources tool. For general information about JSR-170 support in Sakai see here
The very first phase of JCR integration for Resources is an implementation of the existing ContentHostingService API using a JCR backend. With this initial support, the Resources Tool and Sakai DAV are meant to operate as they stand with no changes to their code.
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Developed at James Madison University, the Madison Digital Image Database (MDID) software brings the digital image library into the teaching and learning process.
The purpose of this website is to make the MDID software available for download and to share information with the MDID user community. Since the first release in 2001 many institutions have implemented the MDID software with their own digital image collections. MDID2 users can share collections with each other, giving institutions instant access to previously unavailable image collections.
Imports XML representations.
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ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.
* With legal barriers, we advocate for licensing of educational materials under interoperable terms, such as those provided by Creative Commons licenses, that allow unhampered modification, remixing, and redistribution. We also educate teachers, learners, and policy makers about copyright and fair-use issues pertaining to education.
* With technical barriers, we promote interoperability standards and tools to facilitate remixing and reuse.
* With social barriers, we encourage teachers and learners to re-use educational materials available on the Web, and to build on each other’s contributions.
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UC Berkeley is developing a podcast capture, post-processing, and distribution system that will integrate current technological advancements such as Apple's Podcast Producer with existing academic community source frameworks such as Sakai to replace its antiquated system.
The initial release of the OpenCast system is projected for Fall 2008 and will satisfy our campus' local needs. This system will not be a turn key solution since many institutions have different organizational, policy, and business requirements, and demand a certain level of cost for adoption. Nevertheless. UC Berkeley has taken steps to develop a flexible object model that will allow other schools to potentially participate in a broader community source initiative. Because other institutions use CLE solutions outside of Sakai, the OpenCast system will run standalone as well as within the Sakai environment, and is designed to abstract Podcast Producer as a "Media Processing and Capture Engine" to allow for other alternatives.
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Croquet is a powerful new open source software development environment for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online applications and metaverses on and across multiple operating systems and devices. Derived from Squeak, it features a peer-based network architecture that supports communication, collaboration, resource sharing, and synchronous computation between multiple users on multiple devices.
Every part of the system is designed around enabling real-time, identical interactions between groups of users. Croquet's architecture is designed to make it easy to develop deeply collaborative applications without having to spend a lot of effort and expertise in understanding how replicated applications work.
Using the Croquet Software Developer's Kit (SDK), developers can create and link powerful and highly collaborative cross-platform multi-user 2D and 3D applications and simulations - making possible the distributed deployment of very large scale, richly featured and interlinked virtual spaces.
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, has emerged as an international ePortfolio leader, with a successful ePortfolio project that not only supports assessment but also helps engage more deeply with learning. While many colleges have piloted ePortfolio, LaGuardia has achieved broad implementation. (See http://www.eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu )Working with thousands of poor and minority students, LaGuardia’s data shows deeper engagement in learning and improved student learning outcomes.
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jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
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Making Ajax and Related Technologies Accessible
Many Web applications developed with Ajax, DHTML, and other technologies pose accessibility challenges. For example, if the content of a Web page changes in response to user actions, that new content may not be available to some people, such as people who are blind or people with cognitive disabilities who use a screen reader.
Web sites are increasingly using more advanced and complex user interface controls, such as tree controls for Web site navigation. To provide an accessible user experience to people with disabilities, assistive technologies need to be able to interact with these controls. However, the information that the assistive technologies need is not available with most current Web technologies.
WAI-ARIA addresses these accessibility challenges by defining how information about these features can be provided to assistive technology. More specifically, ARIA provides a framework for adding attributes to identify features for user interaction, how they relate to each other, and their current state. With ARIA, an advanced Web application can be made accessible and usable to people with disabilities.
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Fluid is a worldwide collaborative project to help improve the usability and accessibility of community open source projects with a focus on academic software for universities. We are developing and will freely distribute a library of sharable customizable user interfaces designed to improve the user experience of web applications.
This could be a helpful org for penntags
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Mnet is a distributed file store.
A distributed file store is a shared virtual space into which you can put, and from which you can get, files.
Mnet is also an emergent network. An emergent network is one in which the important features of the network result from the interactions of nodes operated by autonomous people or organizations who do not explicitly coordinate with one another.
There are many interesting applications that can be built on top of an emergent network and a distributed file store. The first application that has been written for the Mnet project is a file-sharing application which lets you search for and download files of all kinds.
The Mnet project is a Free Software, Open Source project run solely by hackers volunteering in the public interest. It currently has no commercial sponsorship, although there is at least one company that is using related source code. See the related projects page for more information.
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Connexions is:
a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:
- authors create and collaborate
- instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
- learners find and explore content
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JForum is a powerful and robust discussion board system implemented in Javatm. It provides an attractive interface, an efficient forum engine, an easy to use administrative panel, an advanced permission control system and much more.
Built from the ground up around a MVC framework, it can be deployed on any servlet container or Application Server, such as Tomcat, Resin and JBoss. Its clean design and implementation make JForum easy to customize and extend.
Best of all, JForum is freely available under the BSD Open Source license.