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Tuesday, May 28, 2002
http://company.blackboard.com/press/viewrelease.cgi?tid=208 Blackboard Announces Adoption Strategy for Open Knowledge Initiative (“OKI”) Specifications May 20, 2002, Washington, D.C. - Blackboard Inc. announced today a broad strategy to adopt industry standard API’s (Application Program Interfaces) from OKI within the Blackboard e-Education Suite™. Specifically, Blackboard’s Building Blocks open architecture will base future releases on key OKI specifications, enabling a broader variety of 3rd party applications to work seamlessly with Blackboard. This announcement represents an important endorsement of the emerging OKI specifications and will help accelerate OKI’s status as an industry standard in the higher education market. Through their relationship as common members of the IMS Global Learning Consortium, Blackboard and OKI institutional partners are working together with other IMS members to help define the next generation of interoperability standards for educational technology....
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