O.K.I. launched its new community site this week using Segue v2, the curricular content management system developed at Middlebury College that makes extensive use of the open service interface definitions (OSIDs).

"We are very pleased that we could develop O.K.I.'s own community site with Segue v2, which in turn has been designed from the ground up using the architectural model of O.K.I.'s Open Service Interface Definitions." said Jeff Merriman, Associate Direcfor for the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at MIT and Executive Director of O.K.I.  "We are indeed 'eating our own dogfood'."

This new version of Segue is built on top of Harmoni, an application framework also developed at Middlebury that includes implementations of nearly all the OSIDs.  "By abstracting out common services such as authentication, authorization, hierarchy, repository, ID and so on into a framework, we are better able to reuse these implementations across applications" explains Alex Chapin, Middlebury's Principal Curricular Technologist.

Segue v2 allows for collaborative editing, commenting and versioning of its managed assets, using fine-grained authorizations that enable various sections of the site to be managed by O.K.I.'s core contributors and affiliates, while other areas are open for public comment.  In particular, the Conversations area has been created as a place to better engage the global community of developers and technology decision makers around various issues and ideas related to interoperability and educational technology.

In addition to the new O.K.I. main web site, Segue v2 will also be used for a new community site targeting the vital and growing community that has eveloped around OSID-based Repository interoperabiltiy.  This site will be available soon.

Please visit http://www.okiproject.org to experience O.K.I. on Segue v2 on O.K.I.