Projects - Content

Overview

Jeff Merriman - Historical - Historical - Historical - nobody@example.net — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:31:22 -0400

Listed here are projects under development by O.K.I.s contributors and affiliates that are helping to move forward the vision and goals of O.K.I. . Click on the links in the side-bar to learn more about each one.

O.K.I. Phase II

Jeff Merriman - Historical - Historical - Historical - nobody@example.net — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:31:22 -0400

I. Purpose

Prepare for the transition of the Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I.) from a project at MIT to a sustainable community organization, which will be either internal or external to MIT. Create and implement the on-going structure and processes by which O.K.I. growth and development can occur in an efficient and cost-effective way.

II. Principal Investigators

The PIs of the O.K.I. Phase II project consist of representatives of the organizations that have helped to instigate and define O.K.I. Phase II.

Vijay Kumar, MIT
Llorenc Valverde, UOC

III. The O.K.I. Mission:

Foster interoperability among educational, business, commercial and open-source software used in different and evolving enterprise and personal computing environments.

IV. Accomplishments to date:

1.    O.K.I. has developed a suite of Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs), which are specifications that define a “Service-Oriented Architecture”. Several institutions are using these specifications as an enterprise architecture and integration strategy.

2.    OSIDs have been applied to integrate many educational applications with a variety of content publishers and have become a globally accepted strategy for repository integration.

3.    O.K.I. has created, and is still a focal point of, a growing and active repository integration community.

4.    O.K.I. is supporting its global community of adopters through...

The Campus Project

Jeff Merriman - Historical - Historical - Historical - nobody@example.net — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:31:23 -0400

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Francesc Santanach, Joan Garcia Vila, Marc Gener. "CAMPUS Architecture" 2007

The CAMPUS project, promoted by the Secretaria de Telecomunicacions i Societat de la Informació (STSI) of the Generalitat de Catalunya, is born from the will of eight Catalan universities of having a virtual campus in free software and under the license of GPL (General Public License). This campus should allow offering higher education both in a completely online fashion and combining online and offline.

This initiative wants to become an international reference in the field of e-learning because %u2013 among other issues %u2013 it will support up to 10,000 users connected at the same time and its user interface will be designed following user-centered designed methodologies; taking into account issues such as usability, accessibility and content personalization.

The CAMPUS was born within the Catalan universities system and will be open to the world. The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is responsible of the coordination and the technological leadership of the project and will be developed taking advantage of the knowledge and experience that each partner can bring to it.

This project is part of the Digital University program promoted by STSI. The goal of the program is to facilitate the transmission and sharing of knowledge via the information and communication technologies.

The CAMPUS is developed by several groups from the Catalan universities and its duration is of 18 months from the 1st of April of 2006, when the development of the project was officially opened.

For more information please visit the Campus Project web site.

Harmoni

Jeff Merriman - Historical - Historical - Historical - nobody@example.net — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:29:25 -0400

The Harmoni Project is an effort led by the Curricular Technologies group at Middlebury College to build an application framework and standards-based infrastructure bus to support the rapid development and easy maintenance of curricular it projects. The project is built entirely using PHP's OOP (Object Oriented Programming) model, allowing the framework code to be easily extended and enhanced.

At the core of the Harmoni Application Framework is an implementation of The Open Knowledge Initiative's (O.K.I) Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs). The OSIDs are a standard service-oriented API that defines a broad set of services that are germane to IT projects in the education field yet also fitting for broader uses. Among the services defined in the OSIDs are the following:

Authentication
Authorization
Agent/Group Management
Hierarchy
Id Management
Repository

While Harmoni is a modular framework of which most any component can be used in a stand-alone way, the built-in OSID implementation provides a core of services that will serve most applications' needs for user-management and authorization, with the Repository providing many data storage and retrieval needs.
The PHP bindings to the O.K.I. OSIDs are maintained by Harmoni project leader, Adam Franco. Please also see the PHP OKI Community part of this wiki for more information on projects, techniques, and developments in using O.K.I. in PHP.

For more information, please visit the Harmoni web site.

Projects

Jeff Merriman - Historical - Historical - Historical - nobody@example.net — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:32:34 -0400

O.K.I. Phase II

The Campus Project

Harmoni

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