1. The JLeRN Experiment Project
Bharti Gupta
Nick Syrotiuk
Conference 2012 Mimas, University of Manchester
#jlern #learningreg

2. JLeRN Nodes
» Node of Mimas
› First experimental node on Ubuntu desktop
» Alpha Node
› Current working node on Ubuntu server
» Beta Node
› Experimental node on Windows server
» Gamma node (not yet implemented)
› Amazon Web Services node

3. JLeRN Nodes
» Node of Mimas
› First experimental node on Ubuntu desktop
» Alpha Node
› Current working node on Ubuntu server
» Beta Node
› Experimental node on Windows server
» Gamma node (not yet implemented)
› Amazon Web Services node

4. JLeRN Nodes
» Node of Mimas
› First experimental node on Ubuntu desktop
» Alpha Node
› Current working node on Ubuntu server
» Beta Node
› Experimental node on Windows server
» Gamma node (not yet implemented)
› Amazon Web Services node

5. Alpha Node
» Node URL – alpha.mimas.ac.uk
» Supports publish and retrieval services
» Authentication – open
› Username: fred
› Password: flintstone
» Note – JSONview extension for Firefox browser
» Examples
› http://alpha.mimas.ac.uk/status
› http://alpha.mimas.ac.uk/description
› http://alpha.mimas.ac.uk/obtain
› [all documents in node, one hundred at a time]
› http://alpha.mimas.ac.uk/slice?any_tags=magnetism
› http://alpha.mimas.ac.uk/slice?identity=mimas

6. Alpha Node status
» All of the 15,000 JORUM learning resource
metadata published.

7. Jorum OAI-PMH data JSON
» Installed Python OAI-PMH third party module to work with LR team’s Python
script
» Installed the Python ElementTree third party module to parse
» Harvested all JORUM OAI-PMH data and published on JLeRN node
» Blog post -
http://jlernexperiment.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/jorum-oai-pmh-data-
published/
» Example queries
› http://alpha.mimas.ac.uk/obtain?request_ID=http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/
123456789/1000
› http://alpha.mimas.ac.uk/slice?any_tags=curve
› http://alpha.mimas.ac.uk/slice?any_tags=magnetism

8. JLeRN Nodes
» Node of Mimas
› First experimental node on Ubuntu desktop
» Alpha Node
› Current working node on Ubuntu server
» Beta Node
› Experimental node on Windows server
» Gamma node (not yet implemented)
› Amazon Web Services node

9. Beta Node
» Windows 2008 Server 64 bit OS at Mimas
» Installation Guide –
› https://github.com/LearningRegistry/LearningRegistry/wiki/Windows-
Installation-Guide
» Related blog posts -
› http://jlernexperiment.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/the-windows-
node-at-mimas/
» LR team fixed a major bug, and Beta node is up and running -
› https://github.com/LearningRegistry/LearningRegistry/pull/
167#issuecomment-3905263

10. JLeRN Nodes
» Node of Mimas
› First experimental node on Ubuntu desktop
» Alpha Node
› Current working node on Ubuntu server
» Beta Node
› Experimental node on Windows server
» Gamma node (not yet implemented)
› Amazon Web Services node

11. Learning Registry Java Library
» Working with Scott Wilson from CETIS at JLeRN Hackday
› http://jlernexperiment.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/the-hackday-report-and-
reflections/
» Library name - LRJavaLib
› Code on Github - https://github.com/navnorth/LRJavaLib
» Used to publish and harvest data
» Requires bencode -
http://code.google.com/p/bee-encode/downloads/detail?name=bee-
encode-0.2.tar.gz&can=2&q
Untar and install jar using maven
» Code in progress using JAX-RS in Eclipse IDE

12. Sharing the project on GitHub
» Code using the Java library
» Python scripts
» CakePHP scripts

13. JLeRN Collaborations
» Steven Cook from Jorum looking at publishing Jorum
paradata.
» Jenny Gray at Open University also looking at publishing
Learning Space data via OAI-PMH.
» Andrew Green at ENGrich looking at publishing their data
» Scott Wilson at CETIS has worked on publishing the
widget store paradata.
» We encourage you to collaborate/work with us

14. The Team
» Sarah Currier
› Project Lead
› sarah.currier@manchester.ac.uk
› @morageyrie
» Nick Syrotiuk
› Developer
› syrotiuk@manchester.ac.uk
» Steven Cook
› Jorum Developer
› steven.cook@manchester.ac.uk
» Bharti Gupta
› Developer
› bharti.gupta@manchester.ac.uk
› @dulcet_bg