JISC

The background of this mini-project lies in a JISC initiative to establish a specification supporting the exchange of course related information.

Executive Summary

This mini-projects broad aim was to implement and test the latest specification XCRI-CAP v1.1 in a live setting with the intentions of enabling the standard to be incorporated into the business processes of the project partners and returning findings to the XCRI project and community.

Following project initiation each partner was visited to review their readiness for an XCRI implementation and to outline an action plan to enable them to produce XCRI taking into account the local organisational and technical environment. Each partner then generated course data in the XML specification that conformed to the XCRI standard. Using bespoke software those course descriptions have been collected and aggregated by a central organisation, the GMSA.

The project has provided real examples of how different organisations may carry out work to generate XCRI data and thus provided a foundation for further implementations. These case studies are now able to inform partners in future implementations of generating XCRI and incorporating it into business processes. The GMSA now has greater capacity to use XCRI in its overarching projects. The outputs of the project include recommendations to and increased participation in the standard.

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