Some goals:

Become confident *nix systems administrators (enough *nix to keep things secure)

Become confident integrating web-services onto library/archive applications

The NSF-sponsored Digital Library Curriculum, esp. portions on metadata and architectures, may be useful here

Some goals: learning objectives: (see also Use Cases)

*install Dspace and/or eprints and/or OJS (Ivy:I'm also interested in Greenstone)

*create a demonstration collection of digital objects with the the above mentioned tool.

*install Drupal and create a demonstration database driven web site.

*integrating a campus LDAP directory with the ILS

 *create standard-compliant web sites based on xml-ified content (-based  mark-up languages i.e. xhtml, xsl, etc.)

  - standards-compliant web sites are written in html. xml is for data interchange/storage. We should cover both (um, that's why i have xhtml above :-) ).

Critical technologies/skills

*setting up a development environment for your library (http://www.rubyonrails.com/??)

*networking protocols/interoperability

*relational database design (i.e. created good table structures, understanding queries, views)

*Basic UNIX command line commands and philosophy (understanding this makes shell scripting infintely easier)

*Where files go in UNIX, and why.

*Using the vi editor (*shock horror* EMACS!) (no, seriously, vi is a more important tool for administration)

*nix shell scripting (bash is probably best here; although if we could go into fancier stuff like tcsh, ksh, or zsh it might be useful)

*xml/xslt/xforms etc.

*Perl

*PHP

*XML-based metadata (MODS, METS, DC, various discipline-related schema [FGDC])

Advanced tech/skills

* I (clynne) need to learn more about clustering.