[Building Sakai] Archiving Blackboard to move to Sakai

[George Kroner]

If you are on a version of Bb that can successfully export Content System
content to the course archive file (careful, the earlier versions didn't get
this entirely right), you'll find the files and corresponding IMS XML
manifest in the /csfiles/ directory of the archived .zip file.

Alternatively, Blackboard supplies a set of APIs to access the content (
http://library.blackboard.com/ref/3b92cf48-4b64-4ca1-afdb-a6927d1f888f/index.htm).
These can be used independently or in conjunction with the Xythos APIs (the
underlying technology for the Bb Content System). There was a thread on the
Blackboard open source developer list the other week about how to get an
output stream of binary content in the Content System:
http://lists.vcu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1004&L=BB-OPEN_SRC&T=0&F=&S=&P=6241.

-George

PS: I'm not a Sakai admin, but I did used to work for Bb. HTH ;-)

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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:59:14 -0700
From: Nathan Finley <nfinley at pacific.edu>
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All,

For any institutions that have migrated from Blackboard to Sakai, did any of
you use the Content System in Blackboard?  If so, how did you go about
archiving content off of the Blackboard server to move to  Sakai?  I posted
this question to the Blackboard admin list, but I?ve received no replies.
Here?s hoping my fellow Sakai admins are more responsive!

Thanks,
Nathan
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Nathan Finley
Learning Management Systems Administrator
University of the Pacific
Office of Information Technology ? Enterprise Applications
Email: nfinley at pacific.edu
Phone: 209.946.7669

Blackboard Support
Email: blackboard at pacific.edu
Phone: 209.946.2147

Sakai Support
Email: sakai at pacific.edu
Phone: 209.946.2147
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