Academic History Web Service Collaboration

Added by Steve Wheat, last edited by Steve Wheat on Feb 26, 2010  (view change)

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What's New

Background

AcademyOne allows users to import their academic histories from institutions they attended into AcademyOne systems which are accessed through web services.  The AcademyOne Academic History Web Service is defined generally to meet the requirements of AcademyOne systems and is implemented in a general and configurable fashion to allow easy mapping of the academic history fields to multiple underlying student information systems and authentication methods. 

The web services are developed with open source foundation components and original work, so that they can be released as open source software under the aegis of the OpenEAI Project.  The web services are tightly packaged and well documented to promote the self-service download, deployment and mapping customization to new student information systems and authentication methods. 

The web services are developed using standard Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology.  AcademyOne would like to achieve the following goals:

  1. start quickly and produce tangible results along client-appropriate timelines in 2009
  2. develop and adhere to a consistent technical approach and integration method
  3. collaborate under the aegis of the OpenEAI Project to allow client institutions to deploy and support AcademyOne products themselves or with minimal assistance

In this way they will accrue re-usable value in exposing this data over the many years they will use AcademyOne products and services.

The AcademyOne Academic History Web Service will perform the following types of functions: 

  1. Handle requests from other applications to query academic history data.  
  2. Performs a check from applications indicating that the web service is active or providing an error message.  
  3. Provides service statistics about the status and activity of the service.  

The collaboration will consist of the following types of activities:

  1. Completing the technical design of the Academic History Web Service Framework based on the design and collaboration between AcademyOne and InVivo Information Technology.
  2. Documenting the technical design and technical processes of exposing example student information systems data to the Web Service for all types of actions and events listed above
  3. Publishing the designs and documentation
  4. Implementing and maintaining the Academic History Web Service Framework
  5. Exposing new student information system data to the Academic History Web Service Framework
  6. Releasing the software for others to use and enhance.

Based on the work done and demonstrated at AcademyOne and with collaboration with IBM (Datatel), we propose to complete a roadmap for initial design and release of the Academic History Web Service in the Summer of 2009 for student information systems including Unidata, Datatel, and Banner.  This initial release will include support for data that is important for planned integrations for South Carolina.  Once this framework is in place, AcademyOne can continue to add support for new student information systems. 

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