On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:35:05PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Very quick (and possibly unfair) review: there are several "manifest + > metadata + files, all zipped up" formats, some of them very popular in > education. > > In other words, this fits IMS-CP to a T. Yes, we may want to initially > support a subset of IMS-CP, or add some additional bits that are of > use to us. That's fair game. > > Our needs in this regard are fairly standard. Let's leverage the many > tools that know IMS-CP, and the vast amounts of content out there. > > (Several other formats are slight variations on IMS-CP too. Oh, and > this would pull us towards DublinCore metadata as well, which will be > anotehr good step). > > To put it in more direct terms: it is a "file format" proposal that > does not have a "compatibility" section. Or a "related file formats > that would be a good idea". > > As I mentioned, this may be grossly unfair on Aleksey, maybe there > *is* a reason why we're a unique snowflake and it makes sense to build > our own isolated island. It's just not written anywhere :-) > > cheers,
Well, maybe its worth trying to utilize existed IMS-CP format.. OB in that case just follows to library.info(.xol) and activity.info(.xo) formats(they both use INI format), so we need to ask people who created library.info activity.info first :) > > > > m > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<[email protected]> wrote: > > Martin, SJ, > > > > do you have anything to say? Do you know anyone in the field who has > > anything to say about this? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tomeu > > > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:46, Aleksey Lim<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Object Bundles feature page > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Bundles > >> > >> OB deprecates .xol and .xoj bundles(but can import them) and provide > >> major OB proposal's feature [1]. > >> > >> Tweaked Browse[2] uploads[3] OB instead of raw files the original > >> idea was to upload bundles only if HTTP server requests it(by accept > >> parameter of input tag) but in that case we should support it on > >> server side thus cloned version of Browse uploads .xo in any case > >> (later we can change it in some way but now its ready for testing > >> at least). > >> > >> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Bundles#Summary > >> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Bundles#Implementation > >> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Bundles#How_To_Test > >> > >> -- > >> Aleksey > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Sugar-devel mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >> > > > > > > -- > [email protected] > [email protected] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
