Hi all,
I want to ask please are there any paper, artcile , etc.. that talks about the relation between Moodle and Fedora repositroy, or does any one tried to link Moodle and fedora togther as LOR?
Also does Moodle have a LOR module?
Best Regards,
Iris
Rather than looking at the Fedora repository system, we have been looking DSpace (http://dspace.org/index.html) to provide the repository service for our moodle courses. DSpace appears to be a more "complete" product in that it has well developed end user tools for uploading, publishing and controlling access to content. It is also based on the postgres rdms.
We are wondering if anyone has tried to integrate DSpace and Moodle. We are particularly interested in integrating the authentication functions so that students on a course can click through to access-controlled content relevant to their course.
Reading elsewhere in moodle.org I see other people have integrated moodle and mambo which would seem to be a similar sort of exercise, but authentication again seems to be the sticking point.
Any suggestions or pointers would be welcome.
Jim
We are wondering if anyone has tried to integrate DSpace and Moodle. We are particularly interested in integrating the authentication functions so that students on a course can click through to access-controlled content relevant to their course.
Reading elsewhere in moodle.org I see other people have integrated moodle and mambo which would seem to be a similar sort of exercise, but authentication again seems to be the sticking point.
Any suggestions or pointers would be welcome.
Jim
Hi Jim,
with all thanx
iris
Very interesting point u have ... as far as I know Dspace is an institutional repository (for academic papers) with Dublin core metadata tagging, So how did u manage to save Learning objects inside Dspace with the IEEE LOM?
Also, do u have any papers or site talking about your project?
with all thanx
iris
Iris
I must confess that I had always seen fedora and dspace in the same category, i.e. they were both open source repository systems that can be adapted for a variety of purposes. Both implement Dublin Core and can cope with a wide variety of file formats with multiple "streams" or content items per entry.
Our principal reason for looking at dspace rather than fedora was the availability of end user tools whereas fedora is primarily a collection of web services. I must admit I had missed that fedora could support IEEE LOM.
Our project, Mediterranean Virtual University, is only just beginning to look at a digital library to complement the learning enviroment (ie Moodle) so we don't have any papers so far. The aim is to provide a central resource that can be referenced by individual Moodle courses providing mainly background material and readings, rather than packaged learning objects. In this context Dublin Core metadata is sufficient for our purposes (indeed there is a debate whether the way IEEE LOM is actually used in practice really adds much more than is already in the Dublin Core). However, the main thing is to manage the authentication so that access to materials can be restricted to the appropriate students.
Incidentally, we are also looking at setting up a handle server to manage and maintain links to external web resources. Course developers will then be able to reference a handle rather than a URL for a particular website secure in the knowledge that the handle will be kept up to date and pointing to the right resource even if its URL changes. In this case there is not much integration required with Moodle.
I must confess that I had always seen fedora and dspace in the same category, i.e. they were both open source repository systems that can be adapted for a variety of purposes. Both implement Dublin Core and can cope with a wide variety of file formats with multiple "streams" or content items per entry.
Our principal reason for looking at dspace rather than fedora was the availability of end user tools whereas fedora is primarily a collection of web services. I must admit I had missed that fedora could support IEEE LOM.
Our project, Mediterranean Virtual University, is only just beginning to look at a digital library to complement the learning enviroment (ie Moodle) so we don't have any papers so far. The aim is to provide a central resource that can be referenced by individual Moodle courses providing mainly background material and readings, rather than packaged learning objects. In this context Dublin Core metadata is sufficient for our purposes (indeed there is a debate whether the way IEEE LOM is actually used in practice really adds much more than is already in the Dublin Core). However, the main thing is to manage the authentication so that access to materials can be restricted to the appropriate students.
Incidentally, we are also looking at setting up a handle server to manage and maintain links to external web resources. Course developers will then be able to reference a handle rather than a URL for a particular website secure in the knowledge that the handle will be kept up to date and pointing to the right resource even if its URL changes. In this case there is not much integration required with Moodle.
Hi! We are doing a lot of work on Fedora and Fez, integrating them with Moodle among other things. The project is called OARINZ, and is the continuation of an earlier project called OSLOR.
https://eduforge.org/projects/oarinz/
http://www.oarinz.ac.nz/
The lead developer at Catalyst is Jun Yamog. His team has been working on Fez/Fedora/Moodle for a while, and the code can be seen at http://git.catalyst.net.nz/gitweb -- I just don't know where things are at the moment, and what the exact plans are.
Maybe we can get him to chime in and tell us where things are at...
(Note: the project has several components, and Catalyst is doing only part of it. CPIT is leading the project and doing quite a bit of work on it too.)
https://eduforge.org/projects/oarinz/
http://www.oarinz.ac.nz/
The lead developer at Catalyst is Jun Yamog. His team has been working on Fez/Fedora/Moodle for a while, and the code can be seen at http://git.catalyst.net.nz/gitweb -- I just don't know where things are at the moment, and what the exact plans are.
Maybe we can get him to chime in and tell us where things are at...
(Note: the project has several components, and Catalyst is doing only part of it. CPIT is leading the project and doing quite a bit of work on it too.)
Hi,
Yes we are working on Fez + Fedora and will be working on getting the objects to Moodle. There won't be direct integration with Fez/Fedora with moodle, the channel will be via SRW (a web service for searching). Why SRW? CPIT wanted not to be tied with Fedora and this would mean that we can use DSPACE which has a SRW add on too. We also made a simple repository plugin for OSLOR, so we will be creating a SRW plugin in moodle. This will be a read only (one way) access, that means getting objects from the repository and not a 2 way.
If you need 2 way access from moodle and fedora, you can probably just get the fez file in include/class.fedora.php. This is fedora's API-A (read) and API-M (write) web services.
Fedora is not binded to any metadata type, as it treats metadata just another datastream. While Fez can be configured to a document type that can be represented by a XSD. Since IEEE LOM has an XSD it is possible to for Fez to accept IEEE LOM and store it on Fedora. The current limitation of Fez XSD is it can't process xsd:include yet. So you will have to put any xsd:include inline. We are currently using MODS XSD as it provides better mapping to the document type that we have. There are plans to add IEEE LOM, although this is part of a different project.
Hope this helps. Feel free to ask any questions.
Yes we are working on Fez + Fedora and will be working on getting the objects to Moodle. There won't be direct integration with Fez/Fedora with moodle, the channel will be via SRW (a web service for searching). Why SRW? CPIT wanted not to be tied with Fedora and this would mean that we can use DSPACE which has a SRW add on too. We also made a simple repository plugin for OSLOR, so we will be creating a SRW plugin in moodle. This will be a read only (one way) access, that means getting objects from the repository and not a 2 way.
If you need 2 way access from moodle and fedora, you can probably just get the fez file in include/class.fedora.php. This is fedora's API-A (read) and API-M (write) web services.
Fedora is not binded to any metadata type, as it treats metadata just another datastream. While Fez can be configured to a document type that can be represented by a XSD. Since IEEE LOM has an XSD it is possible to for Fez to accept IEEE LOM and store it on Fedora. The current limitation of Fez XSD is it can't process xsd:include yet. So you will have to put any xsd:include inline. We are currently using MODS XSD as it provides better mapping to the document type that we have. There are plans to add IEEE LOM, although this is part of a different project.
Hope this helps. Feel free to ask any questions.
