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You are cordially invited to participate in the the OSID Version 3 Working Group kickoff meeting to be held during the upcoming IMS Quarterly meeting: Monday, February 6, at the MIT University Park Hotel (Hotel@MIT), Cambridge, MA. The purpose of the OSID V3 Working Group is to capture OSID development experiences, enable the RFC maintenance process, and to identify potential additional service interfaces, leading to an updated specification.... read more

Middlebury helps advance adoption of learning technology standards
Date: 7/22/2005
Author: Timothy P. Etchells
Contact(s):
Timothy P. Etchells (tetchell@middlebury.edu)
Alex Chapin (achapin@middlebury.edu)
Jeff Merriman (oki-info@mit.edu)

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. Middlebury College is helping to advance the adoption of learning technology standards by releasing tools that allow developers to create applications that can be easily integrated into common educational environments, particularly those of small liberal arts colleges. Applications built with these tools should also make it easier for colleges to share learning content and technologies.... read more

An XOSIDs forum has been created to facilitate discussion of the XOSID specification for the O.K.I. OSIDs. You may access the forum from the "Forums" menu item, or through this link:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=476851

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 7 June 2005

O.K.I. To Deliver Objective-C versions of OSIDs for Mac OS X Developers

(Cambridge, MA) - The Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I.(t.m.)) today announced its plan to release the Objective-C versions of its Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs). OSIDs are open software specifications enabling applications to integrate with diverse service environments using a plug-in model that reduces development and custom integration costs. O.K.I. has made this ease of integration possible for a number of critical service areas including Authentication, Authorization and Repository services, providing support for emerging application functionality like federated searching across heterogeneous repository collections of digital assets. Mac OS X developers will welcome the Objective-C versions for use in their Cocoa applications. ... read more

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 2 June 2005

The Open Knowledge Initiative Delivers XOSID Specification

(Cambridge, MA) - The Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I.(tm)) announced today the release of its XOSID representations of the Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs). XOSIDs provide a language neutral XML representation of the OSIDs, which until now were only available as Java APIs.

"We are very excited about this release," said Jeff Merriman, Project Director of O.K.I. "It has always been our intention for the OSIDs to be applied to various technologies, and not be tied to any one particular programming language. The XOSID representation of the specifications finally allows us to do this."... read more

Join O.K.I. in Sheffield, United Kingdom for the eLearning Workshops, 23-24 June 2005. We will be presenting a full day workshop on Friday, June 24. A description of the session follows:

Applying the O.K.I. OSID Specifications A Consultative Session

This full-day interactive workshop will address how the O.K.I. Open Service Interface Definitions can apply to real service interoperability issues being tackled by the participants.... read more

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MIT O.K.I. and IMS/GLC Collaborate to Evolve Open Service Interface Definitions

Cambridge, MA, Tuesday, 12 April 2005. Today the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS/GLC) and MITs Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I.) launched a collaborative change process for the next release of the Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs). This process will result in the third major release of the OSID specifications scheduled for later this year. ... read more

O.K.I. has determined that the next release of the OSIDs will be called version 2. While a firm release date has not been set, we hope to make the release to Sourceforge within sixty days.

You may review the proposals for OSID changes on our Sourceforge site in the Feature Request Tracker. A link to this tracker is named "RFE" in the button bar at the top of each Sourceforge page. You may comment on existing proposals here as well as add new proposals.... read more

We are pleased to announce the release of implementations of the O.K.I. OSIDs rc6.1. These implementations provide code samples for instructional purposes. They are released in the interest of aiding developers creating their own production OSID implementations. We hope they will also stimulate discussion about the use and application of O.K.I. architecture.

Please post comments and report problems to one of our SourceForge forums. ... read more

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Contact: Jeff Merriman
O.K.I. Project Manager
MIT Office of Academic Computing
617-452-4039
merriman@mit.edu

PRESS ALERT

Open Service Interface Definitions Released
for Educational Software and Learning Management Systems

CAMBRIDGE, MA, June 5, 2003The Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I.) project announced today the public release of its Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs). These interoperability specifications have been designed to support infrastructure level interoperability for a wide variety of enterprise applications, particularly educational software and learning management systems.... read more