Re: [seul-edu] Student Information Standard

[Michael Williams <michael@haywood.k12.nc.us>]

I am interested in this topic. I had not heard of the IMS Project before
Bruno mentioned it earlier.
I haven't had time to read these specs and compare them but we are
considering this in our efforts to modify Koha library software.

http://www.sifinfo.org/spec.html
http://www.imsproject.org/specifications.html
http://cran.seul.org/~vernier/eduml/

Has anyone already compared these specs? How are they different?
Similarities?

Michael


Odile Bénassy wrote:

> Jason Mellen wrote:
>
> > >Bruno, could you weigh in with some info on the
> > > current and projected state of EduML?
> >
> > I am interested to see what is happening with this. In any case, would
> > software developers support it if we advocated it more?
>
> To me it seems that SEUL/edu is the right place for this discussion, and
> to develop a standard
> Bruno Vernier has done a very nice beginning already at the end of 1998,
> with a few others including Dan Moore and Roman Suzi.
> Nobody took it up, EduML was probably ahead of its time...
> Now Bruno is busy with hos work and his family. It could be the right
> time to do something again.
> About what edu software developers would or would not do I can't tell.
> I, with Promath and other stuff, have been constantly using XML in a
> wide variety of ways. Promath is based on edu content coded with XML,
> and students' results *should be* stored in EduML, only that's not
> implemented yet. Promath(*) is only a prototype at the moment because
> it's a lot of work.
> Hilaire Fernandes has made an attempt towards EduML for Grader, I think.
> Maybe Eric Sandeen could tell us what's going on and which support they
> use for their content and student information.
>
> One or two things you must know :
> - it's easy to dump a database into XML coding
> - it's easy to convert data from one XML format to another
> For both of these tasks, there are already a lot of software, including
> free stuff. I won't give you URLs because I can't take time for that
> now, but I know there is a lot of them.
>
> How many people are interested in this topic on the list ?
>
> (*) http://cran.seul.org/~ob/
> --
> Odile Bénassy
> http://libresoftware.educ.free.fr/