1. Implementation of the XCRI- CAP Postgraduate Taught Course Vocabulary Jonathan Whitehead – Prospects 12 th June 2015

2. Where to start? Contact Jo at Prospects – J.tomlinson@prospects.ac.ukJ.tomlinson@prospects.ac.uk Get internal team together (marketing, IT, admissions) Get backing from senior managers Identify all areas that produce course marketing information Decide which is the ‘master’ set of data Develop XML feed based on the ‘master’, following XCRI-CAP standard and the PG Vocabulary schema Speak to others in the XCRI-CAP community Use the Jisc infokit www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/course- information/www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/course- information/ Free advice and support at any stage in the process from Alan Paull Services alan@alanpaull.co.ukalan@alanpaull.co.uk

3. You need a public XCRI-CAP feed Add some extra information to the feed to get it up to “PG-Taught” specification ( see schema at http://schema.prospects.ac.uk/xcri/postgrad/xcri-cap-pg-taught-1.0.xsd) http://schema.prospects.ac.uk/xcri/postgrad/xcri-cap-pg-taught-1.0.xsd Use Course Check to validate the feed Configure the feed in the Prospects Course Handling System (CHS) Review the quality of the course data Sit back and let Course Exchange transfer your courses to Prospects

4. Will validate a public XCRI-CAP feed and report on any non-compliance with the XCRI-CAP PG standard Useful for validating for other PG aggregators too Once an XCRI-CAP feed passes validation, it can be previewed in COURSE EXCHANGE When the data quality has been approved by the institution and by Prospects, the feed can go live

5. … Tell us about your course

6. Electronic Engineering … What’s the course title?

7. ENG101 … Unique and permanent identifier

8. School of Engineering … Which department?

9. Postgraduate Taught … What type of course?

10. This postgraduate diploma course offers you an … … Description

11. There are no entry requirements, but we do assume … … Prerequisites

12. PG Dip Eng … Qualification

13. 1st October 2015 2 years Part time study …. Start date, duration, study mode

14. ENGINEERING Software engineering … Subjects

15. Other non-mandatory fields assessment applyTo attendanceMode cost places qualification description professional status location address email fax phone postcode town url Supply as much as you can!

16. How to create a feed? Courses … …. Your favourite programming language ORM XML Bind Select * from courses AS XML XSLT Off-the- shelf report

17. Import feed

18. Email report

19. Your course on prospects.ac.uk

20. Scheduling PCX will be configured to poll feeds weekly and process them if they have changed You can always request a manual upload of your feed If data needs manual editing, you can disable the PCX feed and use Prospects Course Handling System to edit the courses manually

21. Schemas You can find all XCRI-CAP schemas at: http://schema.prospects.ac.uk/xcri-cap

22. Prospects.ac.uk Chevening Scholarships (chevening.org) UKPASS(ukpass.ac.uk) Target Courses (targetpostgrad.com) Hobsons(hobsons.com) Hotcourses.com Postgraduate Search (postgraduatesearch.com) EducationUK (educationuk.org ) Scholarship Search (scholarship-search.org.uk) PG Data Collection Landscape Map PROVIDER PROSPECTS UCAS MEDIA MastersCompare(masterscompare.co.uk) StudyPortals(studyportals.eu) FindAMasters(findamasters.com) StudyLink(studylink.co.uk) HOTCOURSES NB: This landscape map represents the main data collectors providing course marketing information to websites. Postgrad Solutions ( Postgrad.com)

23. Prospects.ac.uk Chevening Scholarships (chevening.org) UKPASS(ukpass.ac.uk) Target Courses (targetpostgrad.com) Hobsons(hobsons.com) Hotcourses.com Postgraduate Search (postgraduatesearch.com) EducationUK (educationuk.org ) Scholarship Search (scholarship-search.org.uk) PG Data Collection Landscape Map with XCRI-CAP feed PROVIDER PROSPECTS MastersCompare(masterscompare.co.uk) StudyPortals(studyportals.eu) FindAMasters(findamasters.com) NB: This landscape map represents the main data collectors providing course marketing information to websites. XCRI-CAP FEED UCAS MEDIA HOTCOURSES StudyLink(studylink.co.uk) Postgrad Solutions ( Postgrad.com)