Difference between revisions of "Hack Fest 2010"

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To integate Status Net, the open-source "host-your-own" Twitter, into Mahara, an open source e-portfolio system.

To get Moodle working with Koha.

First Step: Let's start by extending the Moodle External Search block to query a Koha library system and display the returned records of Koha books.

Here's a Koha already set up we can use - no Koha set up required (phew!):
- http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org:9998/
Koha uses an open standard from the Library of Congress called SRU - Search/Retrieval by URL.
Using the Z39.50 Explain protocol, we can "self-discover" the Koha catalog search interface:
- http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org:9998/?version=1.1&operation=explain
by parsing the XML response, we can use the <database> element (in this case, "biblios") to construct a search URL:
- http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org:9998/biblios?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=fish
which will return the number of results:
- <zs:numberOfRecords>178</zs:numberOfRecords>
Then we can grab (e.g.) records 5 and 6, in Dublin Core, like this:
- http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org:9998/biblios?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=fish&startRecord=5&maximumRecords=2&recordSchema=dc

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 === Plan ===
-To integate [http://identi.ca/ Identi.ca], the open-source "host-your-own" Twitter, into [http://mahara.org Mahara], an open source e-portfolio system.
+To integate [http://status.net/ Status Net], the open-source "host-your-own" Twitter, into [http://mahara.org Mahara], an open source e-portfolio system.
 ;First Step: A block to follow a twitter tag.