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This page serves as a walkthrough for editing sakai.properties for Sakaibrary configuration and provides a sample file as an example. Jump to the sample below.

Walkthrough

File location

Open (or create) sakai.properties at:

<Tomcat_root>/sakai/sakai.properties

Properties

Add and define the following properties to sakai.properties:

  • osidImpl@org.sakaiproject.citation.api.SearchManager - the package name of the Repository OSID implementation:
    • For the MetaLib X-Server 
      org.sakaibrary.osid.repository.xserver
    • For the Sirsi Web2Bridge 
      edu.indiana.lib.osid.base.repository.http
  • metasearchUsername@org.sakaiproject.citation.api.SearchManager - the username used to access your metasearch engine.
  • metasearchPassword@org.sakaiproject.citation.api.SearchManager - the password used to access your metasearch engine.
  • metasearchBaseUrl@org.sakaiproject.citation.api.SearchManager - the metasearch engine XML gateway base URL.
    • Example for the MetaLib X-Server 
      http://metalib.university.edu/X
    • Example for the Sirsi Web2Bridge
  • openUrlResolverAddress@org.sakaiproject.citation.api.CitationService - the base URL for your institution's OpenURL link resolver.
    • If you do not know this address, or, do not have an OpenURL link resolver, you can use OCLC's OpenURL Gateway. The base URL for this OpenURL resolver is: 
      http://worldcatlibraries.org/registry/gateway
  • openUrlLabel@org.sakaiproject.citation.api.CitationService - the label users see for the OpenURL resolution link to find full-text and other institutional services (i.e. "Find It!", "IU Link", etc.).

Additional Guidelines

  • There should be at least one repository defined (repository_0_...).
  • Search categories should have consecutively increasing repository numbers: repository_0_..., repository_1_..., repository_2_..., etc.
  • There is no limit to the number of repositories defined.

Finding Search Source Ids

To determine the ids of your local search sources, you can use the MetaLib Management Interface:

  1. login to the MetaLib Management Interface at http://<metalib instance root>/M: 
    http://metalib.mySchool.edu/M
  2. choose "Find Resource"
  3. search for the resource
  4. the results will contain a "Resource ID" column - this is the id to be used

Sample

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