Hi Ernie,
Thank you very much for posting. It's a very exciting project. We have talked some outside of the forum but I want to summarize what I am doing for everyone here.
The OCW work I am about start is a small subset of such a project. Basically we are taking content from a class on Sloan and exporting it into a IMS Content Packaging based XML format that will be read by OCW's content management tool. OCW will then edit, format, check intellectual property rights, etc and eventually publish a static html version of the content to their web site. Because the destination is static, non-interactive, html much of the complexity and context of the content in dotLRN will not need to be exported.
It's obviously a much simpler project and will be completed in approximately 2 months.
I hope to collaborate with Ernie and Sussdorff-Roy on the underlying utilities and methodology so that my work will fit in with the overall solution they are working towards.