Posted by xjm on July 23, 2010 at 10:59pm
Several folks have mentioned that they're considering or testing OpenScholar for their departments. Let's keep in touch about it. We in Family Medicine think it looks very promising and will probably be experimenting with it this fall. Please reply if your department or group is interested in OpenScholar (or even already using it).
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DoIT
Scholar is in the running for a campus service we're trying to set up in my group. We really want to keep in touch with how people are or would like to use it on campus so that we can structure it in a useful way.
Planning to review OpenScholar
I am the Web Dev for the Biostatistics & Medical Informatics department. I have recently been migrating our existing web site (developed by someone else) into Drupal 6.x. I plan to take a look at Open Scholar myself to see if it readily addresses any of our departments existing needs.
Is there an "open"
Is there an "open" OpenScholar instance running somewhere that I can point people to so they can see it in its breathtaking coolness?
There are a number of people (and departments) who are trying to do what it does, and it'd be an ideal solution for them, if only I could show it off in some way that doesn't require a Harvard login.
+1 to that idea!
Currently, I just point people to the short video - http://openscholar.harvard.edu/
But I agree - a NetID open "demo" would be way more effective.
Anyone up for putting something like this up? Perhaps as a part of the E-Learning Roadmap project John mentioned? or another route?
This http://drupal.org/project/demo might be useful for keeping it in "demo" state.
Checking
I'll check with AT here to see if we have the resources/time to dig into this. One of the first problems will be NetID auth, but we have some experience wrestling with that so it may be easily doable. Then again, it could be a nightmare. What fun!
And how cool is that (re: the demo module)... nice find.
UW OpenScholar Demo?
I might be interested in working on this project/demo. I have to review the OpenScholar install anyway so if it can benefit others who wish to review it... I would be game.
OpenScholar
GeneticsIT is using an early version of OpenScholar at scholar.genetics.wisc.edu, a listing of the sites can be seen at our atrium
http://sites.genetics.wisc.edu/dashboard/custom-2.
I have a short'ish post on our netID auth with Drupal at my blog here:
http://ronspark.com/archives/201
Currently it works by comparing netID's with our already known database, we don't allow unknowns to create accounts.
I would also be interested in working on a UW OpenScholar Demo.
Acquia / Open Scholar
Acquia is planning to offer a free sand box for Open Scholar, as part of our partnership with Harvard on this distribution. It may be a month or so before it gets up and running, but it will be open to all to try out.
Anyone from the UW willing to help with this effort should contact me. As you may know, we are also looking at the possibility of starting a Drupal team in Madison (or another US based university city).
Tom Erickson
CEO Acquia
BSEE '80 UW-Madison
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Very cool!
Very cool!
OpenScholar discussion group
There is a now about OpenScholar http://groups.drupal.org/openscholar
UMD to test OpenScholar
We are testing OpenScholar at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. Our instance is going to be branded "Scholar's Space" at the University of Maryland. I'm working on it currently as the chief programmer.
Currently, the site is connected via LDAP and only allows people in who are at UMD, but you can view the site as it stands now at http://dev.profile.arhu.umd.edu
Grant Dickie
ARHU Web & Applications Developer
University of Maryland, College Park
Openscholar at BYU
I've helped a few professors with OpenScholar at Brigham Young University. On campus we use Drupal in many departments, but currently openscholar use is minimal. I believe that a D7 version would help increase interest in OS.