Changing the IQ Curriculum Repository

I’ve decided to change the platform for curriculum.immersionquest.net from semantic-mediawiki (SMW) to the upcoming drupal 7.0 CMS. There are a variety of reasons, but primarily because much of the functionality I want out of SMW requires command line access to the server, and I’m currently on a shared host that doesn’t allow it.

A combination of Drupal 7.0 and OpenCalais provides much of the semantic search functionality I want integrated. Calais is “a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application. ” It has plugins for both wordpress and drupal, which makes it very convenient cross-platform, and I’ve already updated the metadata of this blog with it.

So, revisiting the vision document:

1) Curriculum Repository –> immersionquest.org/curriculum.immersionquest.net –> Drupal 7.0

2) Blog –> blog.immersionquest.net –> self-hosted WordPress

3) Standalone Content/Tools –> immersionquest.net –> TBD

4) School –> school.immersionquest.net –> Currently doing comparative analysis of Moodle 2.0 and ATutor 2.0