Re: [school-discuss] [Open Admin] SIF/XML tools for Data Transfer.

["Matt R. Jezorek" <matt@bluelinux.org>]

I dont suppose anyone has the opensif source code handy do they?

Would be nice to take a gander at. But with the site down and no mirrors
well its hard to get your hand on it. Very supprised google does not
show up a mirror or anyone who has it around.


On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 15:28, Les Richardson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Good ideas. However, I'm not really a Java guy. I'd just like something
> simple to allow OSS developers to "do their own thing" in terms of writing
> school applications (admin and other) but still be able to exchange data
> in some fashion. I think the SIF model is fairly good using a subscribe
> and publish model and exchanging data in a fairly standard XML "data
> object" manner.
> 
> So I would suggest that we look at a very simple method that uses only a
> couple of "data objects"... Student, Attendance, Discipline, Subject,
> Enrollment (subject), Schedule(?),Date(?).
> 
> Something that most folks can agree on and then start writing supporting
> code. 
> 
> I'm writing, over the course of the next 6-8 months, some code to support
> "SIF-like" exchanges in any case for Saskatchewan Learning transactions
> with OA, so it would make sense to add this kind of data exchange to it at
> the same time. I would assume that we would use general SIF structures (if
> they exist) to do this.
> 
> Feedback?
> 
> Les Richardson
> Open Admin for Schools
> H. Hardcastle School
> Edam, SK Canada
> 
> 
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, David Frankson wrote:
> 
> > Sun gave their ZIS to edustructures.com, with the stipulation that
> > edustructures hosted it in open source.  Edustructures branched the code and
> > created a commerical product, then dumped the open source version.  see
> > http://www.opensif.org  An open source project completely controlled by a
> > competing commerical vendor doesn't attract open source devs, and yet they
> > blamed the developer community.
> > 
> > You could try asking them for the project, put it in sourceforge, then it
> > will probably take off.
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Les Richardson" <les@celery.richtech.ca>
> > To: <schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 6:38 AM
> > Subject: [school-discuss] [Open Admin] SIF/XML tools for Data Transfer.
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Here is Saskatchewan, Canada the province just outlined the new SDS
> > > (Student Data System) and school admin software (like my Open Admin)
> > > will have to "talk" to the provincial system via an XML dialect
> > > subsetted from SIF (School Interoperabilty Framework).
> > >
> > > Open Admin is written in perl and there are lots of XML modules and the
> > > LibWWW tools for the transport layer.
> > >
> > > However,I was just wondering if anyone has constructed a more "specific"
> > > solution to the SIF types of "transactions" etc. I don't really want to
> > > re-invent things if it already exists.
> > >
> > > The docs for this, if you're interested (and have the requisite MS tools
> > > to read), are at:
> > >
> > > http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/sds/xml
> > >
> > > They're putting them up in PDF as well; just not there yet.
> > >
> > >
> > > Les Richardson
> > > H. Hardcastle School
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
>