Introduction
Feedback
- General Feedback:
- This was a well organised workshop.
- Detailed Feedback:
Notes
- Introduction
- General introduction to Sakai organisation and concepts
- Portlets are called Tools in Sakai.
- Tools can be collected in Workspaces.
- Users can be added/removed to/from Workspaces and they can Maintain or Access the Tools.
- Maintainers can edit the Workspace.
- Those with access can just use Tools in the Workspace.
- What are we trying to achieve?
- Try out some tools.
- Think about what portals we want setting up where and what Workspaces and Tools we want.
- Try adding and developing some portlets.
- We are not going to attempt a full evaluation of Sakai and compare it with other portal frameworks.
- Demonstration and Evaluation of some simple tools
- Each Workspace can have its own tools.
- Simple Tools can be added or removed from a Workspace by Maintainers.
- Wiki
- Seems good in general.
- I am wondering where the old NCeSS Wiki content is:
- What and how to integrate or link or migrate the content to the new wiki.
- Tobias Schiebeck informs me it is at the following URL, but won't be for long:
- I started a Wiki page in NCeSS Portal Information Worksite about this
- Wiki code:
- h2 Page about infromation content from the old NCeSS wiki
h3 Moving content from the old wiki to this wiki:
* [[Tobias Schiebeck]] can look up the URL to where the old wiki is available:
** He believes the old wiki can be reached and that he can look up this URL tonight
** [[Andy Turner]] has sent Tobias an email about this as a reminder and to request this information:
*** With it he hopes to fix links pointing to the old URL which are currently broken.
*** He also then want to think about how best to move content etc...
* The old URL was:
** http://www.ncess.ac.uk/support/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
* The old wiki content may be found via the following URL:
** http://ncess.web.mcc.ac.uk/support/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
- By default, to read and/or edit the wiki one must be logged into the portal.
- Alex Voss found a way to expose pages as read only?
- Rob Allan suggested that a way to do this is have a wiki reader portlet which provides read only access to the wiki content.
- This might best be exposed on the outer portal/NCeSS home page.
- Page about the old NCeSS wiki on the new wiki.
- Sakai seems much improved since I last looked at it at the portals and portlets workshop in 2006!
- Discussion on Integration and Interoperability
- What about the integration of desktop tools?
- One of the last things Rob Proctor and others need is yet another calendar, what they and I want ideally is one integrated calendar.
- Alex has been looking into this.
- I am aware that there are such things as ical files, but I don't really know whatb they are:
- Do they contain links to calendar information, or are they snapshots of calendar content?
- Introducing Java Portlet Specifications: JSR 168 and JSR 286
- JSR-168 is the standard for loose coupling.
- JSR-286 is to be a standard for further interoperability so that different portal frameworks can talk more to each other.
- This has not matured yet?
- Some portal frameworks:
- Demonstration and Evaluation of Portal Access Grid
- Andrew Rowley, Martin Turner and Tobias Schiebeck
- I tried to connect to the session using a Tobias login, but it didn't work.
- Demonstration and Evaluation of Agora video conferencing toolset
- Rob Crouchley and Adrian Fish
- I successfully connected to the wireless network they brought and logged into that Sakai and set up some test meetings.
- My camera didn't work with it which is a bit odd, but I'd only installed it in the morning.
- Playing around with some tools
- Oooops, in a post lunch moment I almost changed all users to access only for the Usability workshop Worksite:
- It seems that it is possible for a maintainer to remove all users or make them access only including the administrator:
- This is probably an undesirable feature!
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- I did this by mistake. Sorry!
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- Configuration and Wiki work:
- I lost a number of wiki changes by failing to save the page and losing the connection:
- This happened more than once during the day, so I was being stupid!
- If you can't rely on your network, do all edits locally then copy and paste...
- Tobias Schiebeck, Alex Voss and others kindly informed me that web browsers were not designed to support applications.
- Added Wiki tool to My Workspace
- Added a home page
- Wiki code:
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h2 Andy Turner's My Workspace
This page is your [Home] page for this worksite. You can change it by clicking on the edit link above.
h3 Andy Turner
* Home Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds
** http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/
h3 MoSeS links:
* NCeSS MoSeS Page
** http://www.ncess.ac.uk/research/geographic/moses/
* Andy Turner's MoSeS Page
** http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/projects/MoSeS/
h3 Links to other Wiki's on this portal:
* URL to NCeSS Projects Wiki:
** http://weaver.dl.ac.uk:8080/portal/site/88865e79-474e-4b91-8071-049e0a6282aa
* URL to Portal Usability Workshop Wiki:
** http://weaver.dl.ac.uk:8080/portal/site/51282705-e980-491c-8067-01b52ba027ce/page/102d78b6-13a4-441a-804a-b969d288ee1d
- Demo'd the Edina GLS Client
- This is available via a login at The MoSeS Demonstration Portal
- The GLS Client coupled with a GLS Server is generally useful id data is to be integrated from one or more GDAS and optionally a WFS.
- The example I showed was for a specific subset of UK Census Data as developed during the OGC GeoLinking Interoperability Experiment as a SEE-GEO Collaboration under the JISC Grid OGC Collision Programme.
- There is a plan to move an instance of the client portlet onto the NCeSS Sakai portal as part of the NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences:
- Xiaobo Yang explained that this can be done from My Workspace on the NCeSS Portal:
- So some work to get on with then...
- The GLS Client portlet (like all MoSeS portlets) has been developed to be JSR-168 compliant, so in theory, it should plug and play.
- New Tools, What do we want?
- Xiaobo Yang explained that we can put basically anything into the portal and use it to link to other services:
- e.g. We could have a way to submit jobs on to the NGS.
- Not much feedback came when this was asked.
- Rob Crouchley suggested that we might something like an interface to connotea (which is like del.icio.us, but less open so it is easier to say what you think and not get into trouble as the information is not so public?)
- I couldn't think of anything specific, but was thinking about Geographic Maps...
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