WUaS Information Technologies and Data Plan
As World University & School's wiki grows potentially in all languages, with individuals teaching and learning at youtube.com and other video hosting sites, and in virtual worlds - as both educational content and archive - WUaS will develop the following information technology and data management plan.
Welcome to World University and School Wiki
which anyone can add to or edit.
The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open, Free, {potentially Degree- and Credit-Granting},
Multilingual University & School
where anyone can teach or take a class or course
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World University and School's Information Technologies and Data Plan
- Wiki (editable web pages, like Wikipedia) and modular
- MediaWiki (including output to a 2x3 inch screen) and Plone (a Content Resource Management - CRM - system, which MIT OCW recently moved to) are the best directions for World University & School, given the benefits of wiki in terms of openness and group knowledge production, and MIT OCW for academic standards and content; by way of comparison, Wikipedia is in around 272 languages. WUaS would like to integrate great universities open content, potentially centering on Plone, but be flexible to use integrate their open course ware.
And WUaS would like to include these goals:
- WUaS Wiki Universal Translator, building on Google Translate, and other language translation projects
- plan for 8000 languages
- plan for 10,000 + musical instruments, in terms of extensibility, across languages and
- httpS:// for "secure registrar" for 3000-8000 languages
- an advertisement-free wiki
- .edu suffix (educational domain names network together and have advantages)
- e.g. www.worlduniversityandschool.edu = and = www.wuas.edu
- a robust Computer Science department (subject), - who will eventually develop this.
- very easy-to-use
- very attractive, in order to grow community easily
- fast computer servers and bandwidth
World University and School would like to partner with MIT OCW, Berkeley Webcast and other great universities, for university academic standards and open course ware, and sharing of resources.
WUaS is looking for a Wiki / database / Plone / SQL programmer to develop MediaWiki (for handheld, too) and Plone, aiming for 3000-8000 languages and perhaps drawing, for example, from Wikipedia and the International Music Score Library Project databases for its Subjects' page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects .
Year 2010
Technological goals:
- Database of open Teaching and Learning Materials, in all languages; anyone may teach to their web camera in this open wiki. Information technologies here include human minds. Anyone may teach to and learn, in real time, in a virtual world, like Second Life, using the wiki-like Google calendar, for example.
- Video capable hand held computer devices (e.g. OLPC and mobile computer devices - with robust video bandwidth and infrastructure in OLPC countries, and everywhere).
- Translation between all languages. Using Google Wave for translation? Be able to add Languages wiki-like?
- WUaS ability to provide high bandwidth infrastructure for OLPC countries
(- Semantic Wiki? - http://www.technologyreview.com/web/25728/?a=f ? What interface, and how much can people add? Wikipedia is remarkable because of its community.)
Outputs:
Laptop/Desktop: One Laptop per Child size screen (6x4 inches), capable of virtual worlds like Second Life, and all related technologies as they develop, and streaming video; web pages - markup languages, what people create and do with this, etc.
Mobile: Handheld size screen (3x2 inches); NY Times' mobile format, with video, and translation of this, as video broadband develops
Televsion: ubiquitous around the world
Printer: Printable teaching and learning materials from World University & School for OLPC countries, and everyone, from OLPC and hand held devices.
New Technologies:
Engage, and help to generate, new technological developments (partnering with MIT?) robustly, as they emerge.
Budget robustly for technological innovation and experimentation.
Become the low cost worldwide provider of internet access, focusing on the OLPC countries.
Plone certificate? (http://plone.org/ - A powerful, flexible Content Management solution that is easy to install, use and extend. Plone lets non-technical people create and maintain information using only a web browser. Perfect for web sites or intranets, Plone offers superior security without sacrificing extensibility or ease of use.)
Technological specifics
UTF-8 for all possible symbols in all 3,000-8,000 languages and musical notation, as well as symbolic/mathematical (LaTeX), etc.
database for 10,000 musical instruments?
universal translator - Google Translate to 3000-8000 language with sound possibilities
Secure - SSL - secure socket layer especially for searches, and, in general, as it grows
50 years out?
Open formats - like .xml - data portability
Multimedia formats .flac - archival purposes (e.g. free lossless)
Metadata - Resource Description Framework (.RDF) - (Calais?)
Open Archives Initiative - http://www.openarchives.org/
Generative
Good Architecture
Maintainability
Robustness