Draft Report (May 18, 2001) from the UCB Senate Committee on Computing and Communications and E-learning Policy Committee

Thanks to Doc Searls for pointing to Eric S. Raymond's open source business models from The Magic Cauldron

MIT Technology Review: A Smarter Web. "Many feel it can't be done. Even though things are heating up in research labs, the Semantic Web as envisioned by Berners-Lee is hampered by social and technical challenges that some critics say may never be solved. But that's not stopping the W3C and other organizations from trying."  [link from Tomalak.]  I just read the article and found it to a good overview. 

CETIS-Gluing learning applications together with SOAP:  "In this article we look at what kinds of services we might use in education systems and take a more detailed look at SOAP, one of the technologies that may be used to implement them. " [link from Serious Instructional Technology]

The SOAP article at CETIS links to The next big thing? Three architectural frameworks for learning technologies.

I have been wondering how J2EE and .NET can be integrated.  (The campus is settling on a J2EE framework but Microsoft is not a company that one ignores easily.) Maybe this InternetWorld article can shed some light.

About a year ago, when we crafted our first road show presentation of our new model for the IU, we showed a scenario in which an anthropology professor in the field (Ruth Tringham, specifically) would synchronize her FileMakerPro database with our Open Learning Environment.  Maybe we're now that far from seeing that scenario happen in reality if Bill Humphries' Building Web Services with FileMaker Pro (XML.com) provides enough clues about practical implementation.