[Using Sakai] Sakai 2, looking for more information about "seamless integration to library resources"

[Dunn, Jon William Butcher]

Hi Jean-Francois,

Sakaibrary was a project of the Indiana University and the University of Michigan Libraries, carried out from 2006-2008 with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: http://www.sakaibrary.org/

The main product developed by the Sakaibrary project was Citations Helper, which as you note, has been a part of the core Sakai distribution since version 2.4 (with enhancements and additional features in 2.5, 2.6, and soon, 2.7). The terms "Citations", "Citations Helper", and "Citation Lists" generally refer to the same set of features. For more details on Citations Helper, see <http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/RES/Citations+Helper>.

There was also development effort as part of the Sakaibrary project devoted toward what we called the Research Guides or Subject Research Guides tool, but that work was only begun as a prototype and is not in a production-ready state. That's the code that you'll find in the contrib/sakaibrary area of SVN.

With the end of the Sakaibrary project, much of the current effort by libraries involved in the Sakai community has been towards defining requirements for library integration features for Sakai 3. For more information on this effort, see <http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9895999>.

Hope this is helpful.

Jon

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Jon Dunn
Associate Director for Technology
Indiana University Digital Library Program
IU Libraries / University Information Technology Services
jwd at indiana.edu
(812) 855-0953


-----Original Message-----
From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Francois Leveque
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 4:51 AM
To: Sakai User; Pieter Hartsook
Subject: [Using Sakai] Sakai 2, looking for more information about "seamless integration to library resources"

Hi all,

The Sakai Project website advertises in its Product Overview page:

> - For seamless integration to library resources, the Sakaibrary tools link library resources to Sakai.

I cannot find any more information about this there.

Is there more than Sakaibrary for Sakai 2?

Is Sakaibrary still a contrib project (citations helper in since 2.4) ?

Is it more than Citations Helper and Citations in Sakai 2?

How are Citations Helper and Citations related?

Cheers,

Jean-Francois Leveque
UPMC Sakai CTO
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