Don’t make a meal out of creating a feedApplying the XCRI-CAP data definitions and

vocabularies to your data

Alan Paull, APS Ltd 15 May 2012, Brunel University, CDATA Assembly

XCRI Knowledge Base: xcri.co.uk JISC Course Data Programme:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/coursedata.aspx

Data definitions and vocabs: http://www.xcri.co.uk/data-definitions-and-vocabulary-framework.html◦ Full doc, summary, spreadsheet, vocab framework◦ Examples

Resources

Nature of provisionSources of dataData structures and data analysis

Process capability

Pilot: useful headings

• Data on all courses is in SITS – except Continuing Professional Development, online, foundation degrees, some part time, and of course research degrees

• All marketing data is in our CMS, which is Red Dot – except for module data, URLs to the pages, start & end dates, duration, credit, etc

• Some data (Entry Profiles for UCAS) is keyed directly into web-link and not held here – so not available for a feed

• Data on all courses is in SITS• All marketing data is in our CMS,

which is Red Dot• Some data (Entry Profiles for UCAS)

is keyed directly into web-link and not held here

Pilot: sources of data

In groups 1: Where’s the data? Types of

courseBasics Details

What’s in SITS?What’s in CMS?Elsewhere? Where?

Key Issue

Pilot: Mapping and Transforming

AWARD COURSE/ROUTE Pathway Module

Subjects

Course

Data item from Red Dot, SITS or constant value

XCRI CAP Notes Examples

Red Dot subject information CATALOG.PROVIDER.COURSE    Red Dot: subject part of title .identifier   Animal BiologyRed Dot: title .title   Animal Biology BSc (Hons)  .subject Not yet available in sample;

Extract from title or route_name?

Animal Biology

  .description@type="aim"    Red Dot: Entry Requirements .description@type="prerequisites"    Red Dot: Modules .description@type="specialFeature"      .description@type="support"    Red Dot: UCAS Codes .description@type="structure" The example is a

shortened form of the data to show the principle.

You must study this degree in combination with another course. The UCAS Codes for these combinations are:Animal Biology BSc (Hons) and:Course / Code / Short form of courseArt & Design / CW32 / Mod/ABAD

Red Dot: Overview .description@type="topic"   Welcome to Animal Biology BSc (Hons), part of the Life Science programme at …

  .url Suggest this is keyed and held in Red Dot

 

  CATALOG.PROVIDER.COURSE.QUALIFICATION

   

award qualification.title From MAS records or from Red Dot (part of title)

Bachelor of Science with Honours

mas_course CATALOG.PROVIDER.COURSE.PRESENTATION

   

mas_code .identifier   ABIOACDMEmas_ucas_code .identifier Required for UCAS export CN22mas_title .title   Animal Biology and Creative Digital

Media

  .start Not yet available in sample 2009-10-01"University of xxxx" venue.title    

STRUCTURES

EXAMPLESSOURCE

PROBLEMS

In groups 2: Populating the feed

Key Issue

How will we map and transform to XCRI-CAP?

What data will be in our course records in the feed?

Technology? Process? Sustainability? Maintenance?

Level of detail (depth of course descriptions)? Courses, qualifications, presentations, modules? “Standard” vocabularies?

Don’t make a meal out of creating a feedApplying the XCRI-CAP data definitions and

vocabularies to your data

Alan Paull, APS Ltd 15 May 2012, Brunel University, CDATA Assembly

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