Delores Extensions
Helping you go further with Design Engineering

Delores Extensions is part of the Delores project (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) will create a dynamic collection of university-level Open Educational Resources (OERs) and other openly available resources relevant to Engineering Design. The resources will be sourced from collections from around the world, including such sources as UKOER projects, OCWC, OER Commons, Journal Tables of Contents, and industry news. The aims are

  1. to help make such resources more easily discovered by those with a specific interest in Engineering Design by creating a high-profile dedicated site and
  2. to provide a showcase of these materials and examples of their use.
Delores Extensions utilises rule-based classification and Bayesian filtering in order to select those OERs from the wider source collections most relevant to particular topics.


 

Bayesian Categories

  • Vector: Design Eng. Relevancy
    • Relevant
    • Not Relevant
  • Vector: Design Eng. Subj.
    • Design for X
    • Graphical communication
    • Machine elements
    • Manufacturing processes
    • Principles of design

About sux0r

sux0r allows users to maintain lists of Naive Bayesian categories. These lists can be shared with other users. This allows groups to share, train, and use sux0r together.

sux0r 2.1.0 is open source and is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Found a bug? Report it. Need help? Ask in the Support forum. Got ideas to discuss? Post in the Developers forum or submit patches. All that and more at the sux0r SF.net project page.

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Querying sux0r API from Waypoint

The API gives you access to the resources grouped by vectors and or categories. The OER metadata is returned in a standard RSS 2.0 format based partly on OCW Consortium's guidelines on RSS feeds. It is also based on what the sux0rAPI already does through the "return RSS items for a user" call.

The rationale for using RSS is that sux0r and Waypoint are loosely-coupled using a standard format. This should enable Waypoint to import information direct from sources where the sux0r filtering isn't necessary, and on the other hand, other systems may be able to consume the information from sux0r filtering without needing any special tool.

API Usage

API_URL_BASE: http://icbl.macs.hw.ac.uk/delores/icbl/api

Calls

1. Return the list of vectors

Example:
http://icbl.macs.hw.ac.uk/delores/icbl/api/vectors

2. Return the categories of a vector

Example:
http://icbl.macs.hw.ac.uk/delores/icbl/api/categories/?vec_name=DesignEngSubj

3. Return the items of a category *

Example:
http://icbl.macs.hw.ac.uk/delores/icbl/api/items/?cat_name=designForX

4. Return all the feeds

Example:
http://icbl.macs.hw.ac.uk/delores/icbl/api/feeds/

5. Return maxHits items *

Example:
http://icbl.macs.hw.ac.uk/delores/icbl/api/items/?maxHits=200

* The XML structure for the Item elements is based on this proxy doc proposed by Phil.

Training RSS Items with sux0r

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