standards

SunRain Productions is a small Glendale-based web development shop that has been increasingly focused on Drupal for site development. We are growing rapidly, and need the assistance of an additional drupal-developer (comfortable with configuring a drupal site based on detailed sitemaps and wireframes, and building basic custom modules if needed).

Is anybody out there using Drupal for building e-portfolios?

I was at a Mahara conference recently and attending a talk about LEAP2A (http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/LEAP2A_specification) a new interoperability spec. Efforts to make it compatible with RDFa are underway and I was wondering if anybody from the Drupal side would be interested in joining in the discussion.

[Some questions/suggestions that are kinda late in the game, but coming from research I've been doing today....]

To what extent is this API intended to facilitate data exchanges between Drupal and other CMSs?

Have you seen the Portable Site Information PSI specification, http://psilib.sourceforge.net/? It sets out a generalized XML interchange format for CMS data (and provides some tools written in Python). Would it be useful to consider this as a basis for the Import/Export XML format?

A potentially useful reference is the Exorcist softare produced as an offshoot of the Midgard CMS, http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/exorcist/. It provides a general toolset for data exchanges between CMSs (in Java).