February 27, 2003
Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges
20/31
Open Knowledge Initiative
nProject supported by Mellon Foundation
nhttp://web.mit.edu/oki/
nAn open source framework
–Based on open technical standards for
§Common services – such as secure access, or document management, etc.
§APIs – application programming interfaces to connect the services
–Platform independent
§Java based but accommodates tools written in other languages
nNon-technical brief on the OKI