Open Knowledge Initiative Delivers XOSID Specification

08-June-2005

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The Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I.) 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

This means progress for people like ourselves (KnowNet) who may be considering some explorations using the Open Service definitions but who want light weight 'bindings' for web-applications.

As an aside... I tried to find a permalink for this article on the IMS site, but was utterly shocked to discover there is none - just the 'past news' URL en bloc. Now, in my opinion trackback, RSS and other permalink-based mini-standards have done much more for education than any number of big, specifically education standards (which are what the IMS site is about). And the REST-ful web has done more than anything to make the web a useful experience for learners (REST is an architectural theory about the web which boils down to a few simple principles such as always making sure that URLs make sense and that all content can be reached from a sensible URL). I am tempted to surmise that the IMS site's prominent ignorance of these small, loose but very powerful standards is quite telling :o)

The Open Knowledge Initiative Delivers XOSID Specification
(Cambridge, MA) - 2 June 2005, 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.

IMS Global Learning Consortium: Past News

See also OSID page at IMS.

NB - I have just discovered a permalink at the MIT OKI site for this news: Open Knowledge Initiative Delivers XOSID Specification - if only the IMS site had the same respect for simple web standards :o).


Mike Malloch; 08-June-2005 05:01:18; forum (0) help

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See this post in the SIGOSSEE open source news blog for a pointer to news about an abstract spec for the open service definitions from OKI/IMS, and also a little rave from Mike about the IMS site not having permalinks for its news items.
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