conference | Jason E. Shao

In Denver @ JA-SIG

Jun

24

2007

Made it into JA-SIG: ran into Susan on the flight from Newark, which was kind of surreal. The irony was that immediately before seeing her at the gate, I was thinking to myself how strange it is that I’ve never run into anyone else I knew while travelling out to one of these conferences. Arriving ...

Sakai Conference: Multi-Institution VRE

Jun

13

2007

Using Sakai in multiple institutional research settings – AERS Case Study: Adult Literacy – used resources for file storage and as a documentation store, and diary entries stored as discussion entries. Teams liked the ability to contribute entries/discussions asynchronously, and despite being in many separate locations. Site Stats showed that most visits were content reads ...

Sakai Conference: Moving from a Commercial Env. to Sakai

Jun

12

2007

Jeshua Pacifici talked a bit about his experiences migrating from Blackboard to Sakai. Very broad detail focused, less information on the technical and detail sides of migrations (e.g. how to get Courses/Projects out of Blackboard). High level overview of some benefits, caveats, and others.

Sakai Conference: Easing Data Recovery

Jun

12

2007

Indiana has built a database structure that has triggers (in Oracle) to copy changes to db tables into backup schemas (per table/schema). This allows them to recover deleted, or other data, by retrieving it and copying it back into the appropriate table. Resources on the file system are handled via snapshots (on a NetApp?) Some ...

Sakai Conference: Portal Options

Jun

12

2007

Chuck Sev. is doing a demo of some of the new features that have been ported into Charon Portal in trunk. Additional hooks in Ian’s new portal Impl support multiple Velocity ### Features * **Hierarchy** – sub sites, **NO INHERITED AUTHORIZATION**, velocity templated * **Single Tool View** – edit Page order, and the toolbar/nav disappears ...