Archive for March, 2003

An O'Reilly book by Ben Hammersley. Just added itself to my "Books To Buy" list. »

From David Wiley's Autounfocus weblog: Let’s pretend that a major foundation that is interested in the intersection of learning objects and online community had approached me about sponsoring a meeting of people with said interest, and I had funding to bring 12 or so people together for a multi-day summit this summer to discuss the... »

I've been implementing the browse objects interface for the SciQ project, and it struck me just how different it looks from the current browse utility in CAREO. They do basically the same thing - allow the user to use predefined vocabularies for searches based on standardized metadata elements - but the presentation difference is... »

Today, we're going to install WO on a Solaris8 box, in preparation for deploying CAREO for the MedCIS project. The fun part of this will be integration with SunONE Single Sign On to override authentication within CAREO. We'll also be imposing several "classes" of users (Instructor, Student, Guest), and allow users to share documents with... »

Over the last week, I've been completely blown away by the level of interest people are showing in LORs, and CAREO specifically. Wow. Really. It's been odd, because for the past couple of years, it's seemed like nobody knew or cared about learning objects, never mind learning object repositories, and now people all over the... »

Norm Friesen just returned from the IEEE LTSC quarterly meetings, and he posted a brief report here. Some progress on intellectual property issues, but what sounds most interesting is the proposal (apparently adopted already) to reserve physical namespaces for the elements of a metadata XML binding, such that the URI actually points to an info... »

We're going to give it a shot. We need to test out CAREO running under SunONE single sign-on authentication. We don't have a Solaris box, but we do have a RedHat box sitting here. Should be fun. Found what appear to be useful instructions here. I'll report back if they were useful or not. UPDATE:... »

Wow. I just cleaned up the old IMS-only metadata entry component in CAREO, and lo and behold, IT'S ALIVE! It actually does a pretty decent job. Next, I'll need to clean up the logic that determines who is allowed to edit an existing object, then I can re-activate the "Edit" link on the object listing... »

Now that the SciQ theme is mostly roughed in, I'm shifting focus yet again. We've had a Very Important Client request a form-based method to create and edit learning objects within the repository. We have ALOHA, but they need it integrated into the web interface. We actually had that function about a year ago, in... »

The SciQ Project is ramping up right now. Just received final content and UI, so I'm busy working away on transforming it into a theme for CAREO. That's going to put pretty much everything else on hold until it's ready to go. This will be an excellent test of the theming engine in CAREO, though,... »