Category Archives: Technical development

Making Indexes, Classification Rules and Searches Compatible

Posted on August 22, 2011 by

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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Training sux0r to recognise design engineering

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

I spent some time last month training sux0r to recognise what is and isn’t relevant to design engineering, and also to recognise what is relevant to each of the top level topics in the SEED curriculum that we are using … Continue reading →

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Setting up sux0r for Delores Extensions

Posted on April 17, 2011 by

Delores Extensions is the part of the Delores project (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) which will present a dynamic collection of university-level Open Educational Resources (OERs) and other openly available resources relevant to Engineering Design. The resources will … Continue reading →

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WordPress development needed

Posted on March 4, 2011 by

The static collection, Delores Selections is hosted on a WordPress installation. The rationale for this was that we could write a description of each resource as a WordPress post and WP plus existing plugins would give us lots of goodness … Continue reading →

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Setting up the Static Collection with WordPress

Posted on November 26, 2010 by

We are using the WordPress blog software to create the DELORES Static Collection. In this post we discuss the approach we have taken to add functionality to WordPress to support the purpose of presenting a learning resources collection. The DELORES … Continue reading →

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Delores System Applications Diagram

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

A block-and-line diagram of the system applications involved in Delores, showing their connections, end-users and information flow. Static Collection: WordPress Blog: http://icbl.macs.hw.ac.uk/delores/wp Dynamic Collection: – Bayesian Filtering (sux0r): http://icbl.macs.hw.ac.uk/delores/icbl – Faceted classification interface (WayPoint)

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An introduction to Delores

Posted on September 24, 2010 by

At the UKOER phase 2 startup meeting the collection strand projects were asked to provide a short introduction saying what their collection was about, who it was for, where the material was coming from and what technical approach was being … Continue reading →

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