Author Archives: Uday Thangarajah

Making Indexes, Classification Rules and Searches Compatible

When creating a Lucene Index, the index compiler is presented with a number of choices about how the indexable content is to be analysed for subsequent searching and classification. So it is necessary to make a choice of analysis that … Continue reading

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Getting the Content for Resource Description

Such is the immaturity of the provision of open education resources that there is currently no standard for representing the description of a resource in terms of content or syntax. As a result of this, it is often the case … Continue reading

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Writing Query Rules to Classify Resources in Delores Extensions

The power of Waypoint comes from the fact that a set of classification facets is used to pigeon-hole individual OERs. The user can then ‘filter’ the content by selecting qualifying criteria from any number of facets. In Waypoint individual resources … Continue reading

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