[seul-edu] Re: Comprehensive Student Management

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Bruno Vernier wrote:
> 
> The SIF standard will likely not be as elegant as I think
> EduML is.  But
> because it does not make sense to have two standards, I
> thought perhaps we
> should adapt EduML to be compatible with SIF.  Since SIF
> development is
> currently closed, and I am not sure I want to work at
> compatibility with
> the published intermediate documents, the project (for my
> part) is on a 
> back burner.
> 
This all makes sense.  Do you have an idea as to when SIF is
supposed to release their final specification?

> Perhaps we should continue EduML as a totally separate
> standard for the
> sharing of educational data  from open source programs ... as
> part of a 
> completely open source educational package such as Hilaire's
> OFSET project.
> 
I'd be happy with that.  Whenever SIF is finished (with
Microsoft as a major contributor, I expect the release date will
slip at least three times), we could write a translator fairly
easily from what I understand.  Till then we could use it as
either a native data format or a common data interchange format.
> 
> p.s. I am awed by the volume of email this week!
> 
Bruno, Bruno, Bruno.  You _know_ how talkative I can be!  I just
got back from a vacation; two weeks away from the internet.  Why
should this logorrhea surprise you?

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