By adavidow on

Over the summer JWA funded work to create an OAI-ORE reader/presentation tool using a Drupal website. The work was done by the amazing folks at Linnovate, who were a pleasure to work with. The tools use flash (flex?) for the presentation, and save the presentations in the Atom-compatible OAI-ORE format. The work revolves around nodequeue, and prompted some new features added to that and related modules. The idea is that the various media objects on our website (or on any other website with these modules installed) can be remixed by educators (who are also able to upload their own "media objects") in creating presentations. We're working on our own public reference, now in beta, which we hope to release to educators in the Spring. The documentation of that should make all of the pieces make more sense.

In the meantime, since the modules are available at drupal.org, we have finally uploaded the initial implementation notes in a form that may enable other people to look at these tools and play with/develop them further. See http://jwa.org/technology/unlock for tech details, or http://jwa.org/aboutjwa/programs/unlock about the "unlocking the archive" project for which this open source software was developed.

The modules involved include:

Comments, etc., welcome.

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