The University of Oldenburg has been working on OAI harvesting support for repositories. The harvester can be currently seen at http://www.physik-multimedial.de/OAI_SP/trunk/msearch.php. It currently supports both standard and advanced search.

The harvester still has some bugs which will be fixed in the meantime, the above is a preview of what is coming up.

I had an interview on the 3rd of July with William Moen who along with his research assistants is doing a research over different Open Source (OS) platforms and their usage for Learning Repository purposes. The intention of the interview was to get our aspect (mine in primary) on using Drupal as a system and as a platform Learning Repository as we on JEM have done this.

Topics covered in the interview were:

• General aspects on using Open Source as a platform
• Suitability of Drupal as a Learning Repository platform
• Suggestions for people that wish to use Drupal as a platform

I had an interview on the 3rd of July with William Moen who along with his research assistants is doing a research over different Open Source (OS) platforms and their usage for Learning Repository purposes. The intention of the interview was to get our aspect (mine in primary) on using Drupal as a system and as a platform Learning Repository as we on JEM have done this.

Topics covered in the interview were:

• General aspects on using Open Source as a platform
• Suitability of Drupal as a Learning Repository platform

We have now taken some small measures to improve the navigation on the website. this was done by adding breadcrumbs for individual nodes on the site, eg. the dissemination items, deliverables and some others.

You can now use the breadcrumbs to navigate directly back to the pages where the dissemination items etc are listed instead of having to go through the menu, for example:

We have done some customization on the views for the JEM partner pages.

For your comfort, we have added a listing of each partners dissemination items, case studies and software to the pages at About JEM -> The JEM Network -> <Partner Name>.

Any suggestions for improving the partner pages further are welcomed :)

We have this morning upgraded the menu system of the JEM portal. Please report if you notice any strange behavior :)

We have today taken action to upgrade the Drupal core engine powering the JEM portal to the latest version due to security issues found on the previous Drupal 5.x series of releases.

Security announcement on the issue is available at http://drupal.org/node/318706, please report any possible problems with the website.

The JEM community now is a registered dataprovider for the LOM records on the website. A complete list of dataproviders can be fetched from http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites.

We now have the guide for building a learning repository on Drupal 5.x available in english, spanish and french; the guide instructs through the process of building a similar learning repository as on the JEM website.

The guide is available currently at:

• English version, http://www.jem-thematic.net/en/node/715
• French version, http://www.jem-thematic.net/fr/node/787
• Spanish version, http://www.jem-thematic.net/es/node/781

We have moved the JEM website to a new server due to problems with the old webhost provider and the website should be running smoothly now.

What precisely did we do:

• Move the databases
• Move the site contents
• Redirect the domain www.jem-thematic.net to the new server by changing the A record
• Some apache reconfiguration (virtual hosts etc)

Please comment on this blog entry or through the contact form if you notice any unexpected behavior on the website.

We hope this solves some of the peculiar behavior like page timeouts and 503 errors experienced on the old webhost.