edu-sharing Importer Rahmenlehrplan

started as part of #hack4OER on July 2016 http://hackathon2016.edu-sharing-network.org

The idea is to import the XML data of the school curriculum of Berlin-Brandenburg and create from it a collection structure for OER (Open Educational Ressources) within an edu-sharing repo instance (using the REST API).

The school curriculum of Berlin-Brandenburg can be found in humanreadable version at: http://bildungsserver.berlin-brandenburg.de/rlp-online/startseite/

XML Data Sources: https://github.com/hfreye/RLP-XML

get it running

Clone git and import in Eclipse as a Maven Project.

The most important code is the src/main/java/net/edusharing/collections/rlp/RLPCollectionImporter.java

In the top area of the code enter the username, password and url of for edu-sharing account. Also you need to set the lehrplanCollectionId - this the root collection below which all other collections should get created. To get this id - go into your edu-sharing (create and) open the collection you want to use as root collection and look at the URL - use the id you see there for the lehrplanCollectionId value. Also check that the account you use has the proper rights and the root collection is empty.

Then run the JAVA main script in Eclipse simply with "Run As > Java Application" ... and you should see in the console that it takes some time to create all that collections.

preset the image, background color and more for a collection

If you check the XML data source you can see that every element that will be converted into a collection has an ID. You also find this ID also at the start of every description of a collection created. You can use this ID to extend the configuration of the collection.

At the beginning of the script you can set the nameOfExtraDataFile variable. This is the name of a JSON file within the collectionData directory. This file contains a JSON array with objects like this

{
	"id"	: "C-BIO",
	"image" : "C-CH.png",
	"color" : "#ff0000"
}

The value id needs to match the ID if the collection mentioned above. Set a color like in the example above. You can also name a image als icon for the collection - make sure to place the image file within the same directory as the JSON file.

If you want to extend the data structure simply add more key-value pairs to it. Then also add this value to the ExtraData class within the script. Then you can use this data to extend the JAVA script as you like.