AdmInfo Papers
Project Proposal: Student Record Data Warehouse
[Ray Burnley, 18-Jun-2003]
Data Warehouse Technical Options Draft
[Ray Burnley, 20-May-2003]
Data Warehouse Project (2) Notes of Meeting 14 May 2003
[Sue Milward, 19-May-2003]
Key Information for School Webmasters
[Ray Burnley, 13-Feb-2003]
Student Records Data Warehouse Project Notes
[Sue Milward, 28-Mar-2003]
Specific "applications" roadmap [as none are so far developed]
Module "template" webpages
[á-la SHiPSS]
Maths datafeed
Student Module/Programme Feedback [SHiPSS]
Teaching/Tutorial Group Timetables [ex-SAM3 Schools]
Development Resource Links
XML -- W3C Recommendation
<?xmlhack?>
developer news from the XML community
Apache XML Project
XML Schemas: Best Practices
XSL Formatting Objects from XML Bible
Oracle's XML Center
Cover Pages markup language technologies watch
Markup Languages for Names and Addresses
IMS XML Bindings and DTDs from IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.
Updated:
30-May-2003
Author:
R.D.Burnley
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The AdmInfo project has been constituted to provide data feeds from the University's administrative IT systems to School-based IT systems and web-pages. This project fulfills an interim need for Schools with specific requirements which can't, at present, be provided within SITS. It is expected that future developments with SITS and eVision will obviate the need for this project in it's present form
At this juncture data will be extracted mainly from SITS and minimal data from the Personel system. The project can be envisaged as a "data warehouse" system for the University's administrative data. The data will be "read-only" and probably refreshed on a nightly basis.
The core "technology" would be, I hope, an XML data dump with XSLT transforms of the data for the specific client applications. Transforms can be developed to present the data as: comma-seperated value records; HTML (web) pages; and even Adobe Acrobat reports! A couple of links to introductions to XML: