Open Knowledge Initiative OKI

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Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI)
Future State Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI)

• MIT is major contributor to an open source
  project called the Open Knowledge Initiative
  (OKI). OKI develops specifications with the goal
  of creating technology neutral, standard client
  interfaces for a variety of services. The focus
  is on specifications for educational software,
  but this extends to core technology services that
  are used in educational environments. The vision
  for OKI is that a system which leverages OKI
  interfaces for interaction with enterprise
  services should be able to be moved from one
  education environment to another and integrated
  with the local service offerings with simple
  configuration changes.
• The goals of OKI are
• Allow enterprise systems to exchange
  synchronize information
• Allow different organizations to exchange
  synchronize information
• Allow systems to use enterprise services
• Allow for modular software which plugs into a
  known framework
• Single system responsible for information
• An OKI OSID (Open Service Interface Definition)
  defines the client contract for a specific
  service type. The current collection of OKI
  OSIDs are
• Common Services
• Authentication
• Authorization
• SQL
• Logging
• Shared
• Filing
• Dictionary
• Hierarchy