LOR harvesting adapter

1 Description

Harvesting is part of LOR repositories and means to collect and to index meta data of LMS objects. At least Switch offers harvesting on its LOR repository.

A LOR adapter for ILIAS could act like this:

• User decides an object is allowed to be harvested ("harvestable")
• Adapter prepares the meta data to be harvested (maybe by a daily cron job)
• Adapter communicates with the repository harvester and delivers the meta data

2 Status

• Scheduled for Release: February 2010 / Release: to be clarified
• Funding: There are different parties interested, known by Hansjörg Lauener (Uni Bern) and Peter Hofer (HSLU)
• Development: Feature is to be developed by Peter Hofer

3 Additional Information

• If you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding, please contact: peter.hofer@hslu.ch

4 Discussion

Open questions so far:

• What is the best way to set an ILIAS object "harvestable"? Adding new rights to the right system, or just adding status fields and html controls to every object of interest?
• It might be helpful just to make container objects (folders, groups, categories, courses) "harvestable". But this also might shape up as too inflexible.

Zenzen, Enrico [ezenzen], 05 AUG 2022: This request no longer fulfills the requirements of the Feature Wiki. In consultation with the maintainer I change the status of the feature request to "Redundant / outdated". If the request is still relevant, please update template and mockups.

5 Follow-up