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Interesting news from the SIS front. Interoperability between an SIS and Google Maps using the Google Maps API... http://www.pearsoned.com/pr_2009/062409.htm
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From SIF Developer Boot Camp II, March 2008 What is Interoperability? In order to be a great SIF developer who develops world-class SIF Agents, it is important to understand what interoperability really is and what it is not.
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Most applications that use a restricted list of codes to standardize a set of values allowable for a particular field allow those codes to be modified by an end user. This customizability is often viewed as a necessary feature of the application. One question an agent developer will almost always run...
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The ISTE has posted a free article from Learning & Leading on their website that compares some of the bigger SIS systems on features. One of the columns, entitled "Interoperability Standard", states whether the system supports SIF or not. From the article: Most schools are required to complete complicated...
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Roundbox is using SIF to integrate with a legacy Student Information System System, including creating an audit trail using functionality available in the SIF_LogEntry object. I would guess it's similar to the description I posted here . Click Here for the complete blog post (http://voice.rbxglobal.com...
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/10/26/school.biometrics.ap/index.html How long before the Fingerprint SIF object is introduced? One question might be: Is biometric signature information really interoperable? Probably only if two different applications in the zone were using the same hardware. I think it...
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SIF 2.0 has greatly expanded the realms of capabilities that are possible with K-12 software today. As the SIF spec is really kind of too big for any one person to fully grasp, a good starting place is to think of a few example of things that SIF can do for your software today. In no particular order...
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After such a long sabbatical from my blog, this is a poor example of new content, but it was interesting news, so I thought I'd pass it on. SCORM on SIF http://www.sifinfo.org/upload/news/ZZ6Z85_ADL_SIFA_Partnership.pdf
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Event reporting in SIF is a publish-subscribe architecture. The originating agent publishes a SIF_Event to the zone. After that, it is up to the ZIS to publish the event to all interested subscribing agents. Any failure notifications on delivery will be sent to the ZIS, but the originating agent will...
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The Postsecondary Electronics Standards Council (PESC) has released the High School Transcript version 1.0 . The release consists of XML Schema and a 280 page implementation guide. SIF 2.0 will also contain an E-Transcript specification for exchange of student transcripts. It is likely that vendors will...