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...
