XWiki Integration

Questions asked by Megan May and Seth Theriault:

1) Is this a tool or is this some type of integration with another server?

Answer: This is really an integration and not a new tool, though we are planning to use the BasicLTI tool for integration with the separate XWiki instance.

2) Was option 1 deferred to another date?  I think that is what I read but it wasn't explicitly stated.

Answer:  Option1 had more overhead in its implementation.  The thinking there was that users could log into XWiki independent of Sakai, but this does not seem like a necessary use case to support.  Instead, with option 2 all authentication takes place within Sakai.

On the RDF stuff (something I'm interested in, and have worked on), I've been thinking more generally for OAE ...

Somewhat similar to zemanta, I recently came across this SKOS editor and visualization tool, and a screenshot that I think suggests a possible direction for OAE. Idea is to take something like Drupal's taxonomy tool (Drupal 7 has RDF support baked in, and it includes using RDFa-embedded SKOS), but then layer in the ability to automatically tie OAE content into these schemes and descriptions.

So imagine being able to collaboratively maintain a taxonomy'/glossary as something little more complex than a simple list, and then having it exposed everywhere in a site.