IMS Enterprise Services v2.0 Vashti Zarach JISC CETIS Tuesday 6 th Feb 2007 Chester Zoo

Enterprise Specs in dates Tuesday 6 th Feb 2007 Chester Zoo Oct 1999: Enterprise v1.0 released Jan 2000: Enterprise v1.01 released (with some simple bug fixes) July 2002: Enterprise v1.1 released (with functions added to the data model) July 2004: Enterprise Services v1.0 released (the 3 services – Person, Group, Membership wrapped around the Enterprise v.1. data model)

Enterprise Services (ES) v2.0 Tuesday 6 th Feb 2007 Chester Zoo A project team in IMS – also called the Enterprise Special Interest Group – is currently working on Enterprise Services v2.0 They have looked at a set of use cases and produced a charter outlining the aims of the work The SIG meets this week – Thu 8 th Feb – during the week long IMS Quarterly meeting (California) Adam Cooper from JISC CETIS is attending

ES v2.0 Participants Tuesday 6 th Feb 2007 Chester Zoo Chairs: Linda Feng (Oracle, US) & Bill Lee (Desire2Learn, Canada) Secretary: Colin Smythe (IMS, UK) Participants: JISC, ADL, Inform, Desire2Learn, DEST (Australia), Oracle, Blackboard-WebCT

Issues addressed by ES v2.0 Tuesday 6 th Feb 2007 Chester Zoo 1.To create services which more closely map to business processes (using use cases) 2.To correct errors and omissions from ES v1.0 3.To reflect developments made since the IMS General Web Services v1.0 and the IMS Vocabulary Definition Exchange v1.0 specs were released 4.To reconcile the Person Management Service in ES to the identification data model in LIP (IMS Learner Information Package)

ES v2.0: The 5 Services: 1-3 Tuesday 6 th Feb 2007 Chester Zoo The first 3 services were the core work covered by ES v1.0: 1. Person Management 2. Group Management 3. Membership Management

ES v2.0: The 5 Services: 4-5 Tuesday 6 th Feb 2007 Chester Zoo The last 2 services are new to ES v2.0: 4. Course Management 5. Outcomes Management (grades) Naturally, your very own Enterprise SIG has its finger on the pulse, with some of the focus this afternoon being on courses (XCRI), and, you guessed it, grades (XMarks)

Outcomes: The Use Cases Tuesday 6 th Feb 2007 Chester Zoo 1.Get Grade Information for all Persons enrolled in a Course 2.Get Grade Information for a Person 3.Get all final grades for all Persons enrolled in a Course 4.Get the final grade for all courses for a Person

ES v2.0: 3 Compatibility Issues Tuesday 6 th Feb 2007 Chester Zoo 1.Compatibility between ES v2.0 and the original Enterprise v1.1 data model: the v1.1 data model will defer to the new 2.0 data model, and a profile will be defined for mapping 1.1 to the new data model needs to be backwards compatible so that when it is implemented it can support features from ES v needs to be forwards compatible so that implementations of v1.0 can support features in the new 2.0 spec, i.e. if a 2.0 system interacts with a 1.0 system

Dates Tuesday 6 th Feb 2007 Chester Zoo Base Document specification26-30 March 2007 CM/DN Candidate Release specification29 June 2007 CM/DN Release specification30 September 2007 Candidate Final Release specification31 December 2007 Final Release specificationNovember 2008

Enterprise SIG UK & ES 2.0 Tuesday 6 th Feb 2007 Chester Zoo Do people have the time and interest for engaging with v2.0? Especially the new services: courses and outcomes – which we are already exploring in the UK with XCRI and XMarks And for making sure the HE profile planned for ES v2.0 fits with HE in UK I will feed back your thoughts to Adam Cooper

Hooray it’s the final slide! Tuesday 6 th Feb 2007 Chester Zoo IMS Enterprise v2.0: UK Enterprise SIG: JISCMail: ENTERPRISE.htmlhttp:// ENTERPRISE.html Vashti: Adam: