[Building Sakai] Question about contrib textbook

[Sam Chow]

Dear Jim

Thanks for your reply, and i deploy textbook succefully.  :)

Best Regards,
Sam Chow

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Eng" <jimeng at umich.edu>
To: "Sam Chow" <samchow at ln.edu.hk>
Cc: <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Question about contrib textbook


Hi Sam,

It sounds like you might be using the 2.5.x branch of tbook.  I believe that 
trunk of textbook has been converted to build with sakai 2.6.x and beyond. 
At the moment, tbook trunk is stable.  No changes have been made since the 
tbook-0.9RC07 tag was made.  I would suggest you use either one of these 
URL's to check out tbook to build with 2.6.x:

https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/textbook/tbook/tags/tbook-0.9RC07/
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/textbook/tbook/trunk

The design of tbook includes pages for specifying the textbooks for each 
course, but that part has not yet been implemented.  At the University of 
Michigan, textbook selections are made in an external system and imported 
into CTools through an implementation of the  TextbookProvider interface:

https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/textbook/tbook/tags/tbook-0.9RC07/api/src/java/org/sakaiproject/tbook/provider/TextbookProvider.java

This could be as simple as reading all textbook info for courses from a 
static file.  Or it could involve reading updates from an external system 
(as is done at Michigan).  Our idea was to provide a default implementation 
that reads data from local tables that are populated by additional tool 
code.

You will also need an implementation of the BookFinder interface to provide 
metadata about books:

https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/textbook/tbook/tags/tbook-0.9RC07/api/src/java/org/sakaiproject/tbook/logic/BookFinder.java

At Michigan, we get book metadata from OCLC's xISBN service 
(http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/index.htm).  We have a contract with 
OCLC to use this service.  The service is free for small numbers of queries 
per day, but we anticipated that we would go beyond the limits of the free 
service regularly, so we worked out a contract with OCLC.  There are other 
sources of textbook metadata, but if you decide to use xISBN, you could use 
Michigan's BookFinder impl.

If you run into any problems or have any questions, please feel free to 
contact us directly.

HTH.

Jim


On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:29 PM, Sam Chow wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to install the contrib textbook on a sakai version 2.6.2, i
> download the textbook folder, and modify all the org.sakaiproject version 
> M2
> to 2.6.2 in all pom file. When i try to deploy it, it return some 
> dependency
> missing such as sakai-component:jar:2.6.2 .
>
> Any thing i need to modify is missing? And what is the use of another 
> folder
> tbook?
>
> Many Thanks
> Sam Chow
>
> -----
> Best Regards,
>
> Sam Chow
> Research Assistant
> Lingnan Unviersity
> Hong Kong
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