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The Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC), XML Forum,
and Standards Setting in Higher Education
Jim Farmer
University of Delaware
instructional media + magic, inc.
As prepared for the
EDUCAUSE Advisory Group on Administrative Information Systems and Services
October 29, 2001, Indianapolis, Indiana
The PESC organization
PESC
XML ForumAnnual
ConferenceCommittee
Ad Hoc Workgroup
s
“Governance Structure,” Oct. 23, 2001
ArchitectureCommittee
The PESC Board
www.StandardsCouncil.org, Oct. 25, 2001
Keith Riccitelli Sallie MaeJ erry Bracken AACRAOLysbeth Bainbridge Standards CouncilMelanie Barton NCS PearsonHal Higginbotham College BoardJ ackie Kessler SCT CorporationDallas Martin NASFAAMichael Sessa NASLAJ udith Flink University of I llinois, Chicago
The XML Forum Steering Committee
Ed Hauser SCT Corporation
Stephen Hawald U.S. Department of Education
Robert King Citibank Student Loan Corporation
Paul Ness Sallie Mae
Candy Pfeiffer Great Lakes Higher Education Corp
“The Standard,” September 2001
Current efforts
By December 2001:
• Student loan specification
Based on NCHELP’s CommonLine, could include IFX’s LoanML for student loans
• Admissions/Registration specification
Update of the ANSI EDI transaction sets
Standards development process
• Identify extant data “requirements”
• Compare and contrast data elements from the different specifications
• Create one data element for data elements common to more than one specification
• Create XML tags
------------ Observation ------------
The process depends on historical standards and focuses almost exclusively on domain expertise.
The issues
• School perspective
• Expertise in current information technology
XML schemas, SAML, SOAP, UML
• Coordination/collaboration with emerging XML standards
WSDL, UDDI, ebXML, DSML, IFX, XBRL, SyncML
The college and university perspective
• Multiple standards will apply to data exchanges for similar purposes, especially financial services.
• Each “trading partner” has some unique implementation of the specification.
Mark Forier, University of Phoenix, XML Forum, Oct 23, 2001
Financial services standards
College orUniversity
Banks
Departmentof Education
Common Record
IFX EBPP, LoanML
GuarantyAgenciesCommonLine
Participant interestsXML Interests
based on Work Group selection, XML Forum, October 23, 2001
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
FinancialAid
AdmissionsRegistrar
BusinessOffice
Technology
Perc
ent
Standards and their implementation
MeteorED SFA
Announced
Announced[March 2001]
Expected
UMLXMLJava
SOAP XML-RPC
UDDI
SAML
May 15
Planned
[Feb 2000]
Justin Tilton, PESC Conference, May 17, 2001
Technology standards
M - from Meteor installationO - optional
Industry
OSFA
Mete
or
JA-S
IGuPort
al
IBM
Web S
erv
ices
Mic
roso
ft.N
et
Sun O
ne
Java Programming Language XML Markup Language SOAP Data Transport M UDDI Directory M WSDL Service Description M
Expertise
Standards setting requires:
• expertise in XML, XML schema, and XSLT technologies (and possibly UML),
• expertise in infrastructure standards and Web services technology, and
• knowledge of other specifications relevant to the domain.
------------ Observation ------------In higher education, this expertise is found in the Internet 2 project, and individuals who have participated in other real-time, XML standards activities.
Related industry standards
ACCORD [insurance industry] Agency Company Organization for Research and Development
CpXML Customer Profile XMLCXML Commerce XML'ebXML 'eBusiness XMLFIXML Financial Information Exchange ProtocolFpXML Financial Products Markup LanguageIFX Interactive Financial ExchangeOFX Open Financial Exchange
deprecated by IFXRosetta Net
SAML Security Assertion Markup LanguageSyncML Synchronization ProtocolXBRL XML Business Reporting Language
W3C XML Specification, Date note
Defining projects - student records
• FACTS - Florida Academic Counseling and Tracking System
• ETTP - California community college’s Electronic Transcript Transport Project
• CAS - Arizona’s Course Applicability System
• SIF - (K-12) School Interoperability Framework Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, et al
• CSIS - (K-12) California Schools Information System Project
Based on discussions at the XML Forum, October 23, 2001
Defining projects - financial aid
• Common Record/CommonLine/LoanML, U.S. Department of Education, National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs, Interactive Financial Exchange
• Meteor - National Council of Higher Education Loan programs, an “open source” student aid information service
• Florida State University’s Student Information System
Based on discussions at the XML Forum, October 23, 2001
Defining projects - teaching and learning
• MIT’s Open Knowledge Initiative
• George Washington University’s Prometheus
• Blackboard’s Course and Portal Solutions
• WebCT’s course management system
all “implementing” the Instruction Management Systems (IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.),
ADL (Department of Defense Advanced Distributed Learning Co-lab),
and AICC (Aviation Industry CBT Committee) specifications
Defining projects - portal standards
• IBM’s open source JetSpeed
• Epicentric’s Foundation Server
• JA-SIG’s uPortal
Convergence
From Justin Tilton’s presentation at the
PESC Conference, May 17, 2001
Convergence: data transport
September 2000 April March
SOAP [NCHELP ESC]
SOAP [SFA]
ebXML [PESC]
“Simple SOAP” [Meteor]
Convergence: business messages
June 2000 MayDecember
CommonLine XML [ESC]
LoanML [IFX]
Common Record [SFA]
CommonLine R5 [ESC]
Convergence: authentication
December 2000 JuneMarch
SFA [NCS Proprietary]
SAML [Oasis]
S2ML [Netegrity]
AuthML [Securant]
XTASS [VeriSign]
Internet 2 [Shibboleth]
eBusiness Web services architecture
• XML “tagged” data contenteXtensible Markup Language
• SOAP data transportSimple Object Access Protocol
• XSL transformations for presentationeXtensible stylesheet language
• XML Digital Signature
for Server Authentication
• UDDI/WSDL directory servicesUniversal Description, Discovery, and Integration,and Web Services Description Language
