1 / 10

OKI Common Services: Educational Software Infrastructure

Explore OKI's collaborative platform for higher education partners, featuring open architectural specifications and common service APIs for seamless implementation. Enhance educational components and service layers for better campus infrastructure. Ideal for MIT implementations and development community engagement.

eeckert
Download Presentation

OKI Common Services: Educational Software Infrastructure

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. OKI – Common Services ITAG Lunch Scott Thorne & Chuck Shubert March 13, 2002

  2. What is OKI? • Infrastructure for Educational Software • Mellon Funded • Collaborative • Higher Education Partners • Standards Groups • Open Architectural Specification

  3. Institutional Partners • Cambridge University • Dartmouth College • MIT • North Carolina State University • Stanford University • University of Michigan • University of Pennsylvania • University of Wisconsin

  4. “LMS” Educational Software Educational Component APIs Course Mgmt Content Mgmt Assessment Etc… Etc… Etc… Educational Service Implementations Common Service APIs AuthN AuthZ DBMS File GUID Rules Logging User Messaging Etc… Common Service Implementations Common Objects Institutional Infrastructure OKI Service Layers

  5. Why use API’s • Integration • Independence • Code Reuse • Development Discipline • Protocol vs API?

  6. OKI Service Model CampusInfrastructure OKI Clients OKI Services Client Objects ClientApps Browser Client Objects WebApps Browser Client Objects ClientApps Browser Client Objects ClientApps Client Objects Browser WebApps

  7. Applications Sharing Some Enterprise Services Digital Repository Authentication/ Authorization Digital Repository

  8. Common Services • Authentication • Authorization • Logging • DBC • File • User Messaging • Local Identifier • Calendar & Scheduling • Workflow • Rules

  9. API Design • Balancing Act • Generic & Flexible • Specific & Precise • Stable & Simple • Full Function

  10. What Next • Evolving API’s • MIT Implementations • Development Community

More Related