The Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I) develops and promotes
specifications that describe how the components of a software
environment communicate with each other and with other enterprise
systems. O.K.I. specifications enable sustainable interoperability
and integration by defining standards for Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA). Through this work O.K.I. seeks to open new
market opportunities across a wide range of software application
domains.
To this end, O.K.I. has developed and published the Open Service
Interface Definitions (OSIDs), whose design has been informed by a
broad architectural view. The OSIDs define important components of a
SOA as they provide general software contracts between service
consumers and service providers. This enables applications to be
constructed independently of any particular service environment, and
eases integration. The OSIDs enable choice of end-user tools by
providing plugin interoperability.
OSIDs are software contracts only and therefore are compatible with
most other technologies and specifications, such a SOAP, WSDL. They
can be used with existing technology, open source or vended solutions.
OSIDs are a local language service definition and bindings of them
are provided in Java, PHP, and soon Objective C and C#.
Tuesday, March 25 2008 @ 10:38 AM EDT
Contributed by: thorne
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Registration for OpeniWorld:Europe2008 is now open - you will find more information at http://www.openiworld.org/
Note that the early registration deadline is April 30th, so please sign up soon to take advantage of reduced rates.
Please also visit the updated OpeniWorld website for new information about this summer's event, including
- Limited offer early registration/hotel packages
- Preliminary schedule
- The SIGBL-KOHA pre-conference
- Keynote speaker bios
- Pointers to Lyon area information
Thursday, February 14 2008 @ 08:49 AM EST
Contributed by: thorne
Views: 536
Verbena Consulting instructor Jeff Kahn now offers 1-day and 2-day training course, entitled “Repository Interoperability Bootcamp”. The course focuses on the use of the Open Knowledge Initiative Repository Open Services Interface Definition (Repository OSID), in combination with other education standards and industry best practices, to address several solution spaces:
(1) Exposing content to consuming applications. This area shows developers how to expose content from a repository, including browse, search, metadata, upload, and download, using an interoperability standard developed by O.K.I. and refined and validated across the industry.
(2) Federated search of content systems from a user-facing application. The operations can be performed in a dedicated federated search tool, a pedagogical tool, a presentation tool, etc.
(3) Creating a registry of OSID implementations or applications. Some organizations want to manage OSID implementations or applications in a registry.
Friday, November 30 2007 @ 01:02 AM EST
Contributed by: thorne
Views: 791
A Symposium and Workshop on Federating Resources
Lyon, June 25-27, 2008
For its first European event, to be hosted by the Lyon 2 University (member of the Lyon University Consortium), OpeniWorld will focus its attention on resource federation, one of today’s key educational technology challenges. Federation offers much promise for inter-institutional collaboration towards more effective learning as well as significant market opportunities for providers and consumers of educational content, software and services. OpeniWorld will address the opportunities, challenges, and solutions relating to federating educational resources through both a symposium event and a technology showcase.
Thursday, September 27 2007 @ 09:07 AM EDT
Contributed by: thorne
Views: 1,384
Middlebury College is hosting a PHP & O.K.I. Community Summit to be held in Middlebury VT, USA on September 26th and 27th. The purpose of this summit meeting is to introduce the PHP bindings of the Open Knowledge Initiative open service interface definitions (OSIDs), showcase some existing implementations and discuss how to leverage these standards to define services for a wide range of curricular applications. Whether you are an educational technologist looking to integrate PHP based applications into your educational enterprise or a software developer wishing to learn more about these open standards for PHP application interoperability you are welcome to join us.
* Overview of Middlebury's Harmoni OSID service framework
* Demonstration of curricular applications (Segue and Concerto) built with Harmoni and the OSIDs
* Moodlerooms' Enterprise Integration strategy
* OSID V3 PHP binding
* Cross language interoperability
* Project and Architectural Updates (TBD)
California State University Digital Marketplace Initiative
Campus Project (Lead by Open University of Catalonia)
Thursday, August 02 2007 @ 11:45 AM EDT
Contributed by: thorne
Views: 1,948
The strength of the O.K.I. specifications, particularly the Repository OSID, is beginning to manifest an informal yet growing network effect as the number of repositories, content providers and consumers, and large education initiatives embrace OSIDs. In fact, the informal discovery of the Mellon Funded Sophie Project (http://www.sophieproject.org/) and its search webservice to content repositories covered by OSID implementations made the case for moving forward with Apple Education's plans to begin opening its Apple Learning Interchange (ALI).
At the upcoming OpeniWorld conference (www.openiworld.org) Apple Education will showcase a proof-of-concept implementation using the O.K.I. Repository OSID specification to normalize federated content discovery across heterogeneous content repositories and providers. Leveraging external content provides richer resources to the ALI community, and in turn provides an opportunity for ALI users to make their content more broadly discoverable.
Friday, July 27 2007 @ 03:55 AM EDT
Contributed by: thorne
Views: 2,105
Join us in New Orleans at the OpeniWorld Conference ( www.openiworld.org) to experience real-world solutions being developed in conjunction with the French Province of Lyon, Universities and Colleges (PUL) and The California State University's Digital Marketplace initiative.
HarvestRoad Hive® emphasizes discovery, collaboration, delivery and management of content. By enabling enterprises or institutions to rapidly aggregate content into a central repository and by providing federated access to other repositories it enables clients to discover, reuse and repurpose dispersed content and transform it into contextualized content that is tailored to discrete user communities.
Harvest Road's support of the O.K.I. Repository Open Service Interface Definition ensures it has the capability to provide federated search capabilities to its clients via HarvestRoad Hive® Explorer or its Configurable Interface Application, and also ensures that HarvestRoad Hive® can be searched via other Federated Search Tools. The support of open standards and specifications in Harvest Road's products have been critical to their adoption for supporting cross-enterprise solutions at The CSU and the PUL.
Wednesday, July 25 2007 @ 10:19 AM EDT
Contributed by: thorne
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At the upcoming OpeniWorld ( http://www.openiworld.org ) Middlebury College will showcase Harmoni, an open source PHP application framework. Harmoni provides the basics for quickly developing educational applications that will easily integrate into an institution's IT infrastructure. The Harmoni framework is a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that allows such applications to share content and functionality through the O.K.I. open service interface definitions (OSIDs). This means that faculty and students can use a wide range of tools for teaching, learning and research and that those tools can be maintained more easily because they rely on a set common services.
Most interoperability initiatives use standards in their external application programming interfaces (APIs). Harmoni turns this paradigm around by making the interoperability standards, the O.K.I. open service interface definitions (OSIDs), the primary internal API of the system. This design allows an application's data and functionality to be accessible through the OSIDs from its inception. Even more importantly, alternate OSID implementations from third parties may be swapped for those shipped in the framework so that applications can make use of a wide range of infrastructures allowing the framework to evolve.
Wednesday, June 27 2007 @ 03:03 AM EDT
Contributed by: birdland
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Please join us for a webcast on June 28th at 1:00pm US Eastern Time for an early look at the OSID V3 draft. This is the kickoff of a period of extended comment and refinement, leading to a new release later this year.
Sunday, April 22 2007 @ 08:42 AM EDT
Contributed by: birdland
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Announcing OpeniWorld:eLearn - An Interoperability Showcase and Workshop. OpenIWorld turns the spotlight on interoperability as the key to making eLearning transparent, convenient and efficient. Interoperability allows education providers to deliver high quality, easy to use learning experiences to every student at affordable cost and with a minimum of technological distraction.
Wednesday, January 10 2007 @ 12:37 AM EST
Contributed by: thorne
Views: 3,835
The following was announced Jan 9, 2007 at the GITEX Conference in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India:
The Institute for Electronic Governance of Andra Pradesh, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California State University system announced today a joint effort to consolidate growing support across their communities of practice for the interoperability specifications developed by the MIT Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I.). This collaborative effort will promote the use of O.K.I.’s Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs) and other critical standards to raise the level of interoperability among the components of information systems used in education, government services and other applications.
The Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I) develops and promotes
specifications that describe how the components of a software
environment communicate with each other and with other enterprise
systems. O.K.I. specifications enable sustainable interoperability
and integration by defining standards for Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA). Through this work O.K.I. seeks to open new
market opportunities across a wide range of software application
domains.
