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...

O.K.I. Phase II - Content

O.K.I. Phase II