Rough guide to implementation

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Rough guide to implementation

• Lifelong Learning Support Project
• Wigan 2004-01-29
• Simon Grant, Scott Wilson et al
• CETIS - CRA - LIPSIG

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After lunch outline

• Transferring information
• DIY
• Bought / provided
• Choosing implementations
• Remembering feedback
• Groups, as this morning
• Refreshments and conversations

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5. Transferring information

• Principles of transfer
• DIY transfer
• Provided transfer
• and technical trials to date

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Transfer principles

• When is transfer to be initiated?
• With what authorities and permissions?
• System needs to respond to event
• Automatically
• transform on source system
• transfer
• transform on destination system

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DIY transfer

• Need to understand how its done
• All very technical with lots of acronyms
• SOAP
• EBXML

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Implementing Web Services

• See Scott Wilsons slides

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Buying into architecture

• Services may be provided to do the job
• Other established areas have their own
• There may be others in the future
• JISC has sponsored work on ioNodes
• Paul

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ioNode

• A Framework for Interoperability
• see John Bigerstaffs slides

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6. Choosing implementations

• Preparatory work
• Comparison of approaches
• And then theres the feedback

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Preparatory work

• Decide on information to be used
• Review the technical platforms to be used, and
  the systems architecture
• Map the information
• possibly with feedback from transformation?

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Comparison of approaches

• DIY needs strong technical team with time
• Difficulty of estimating time required
• Gives more local control and flexibility
• Buy-in
• Probably quicker
• Cannot simply be turnkey
• Information, mapping still need time

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7. Remembering feedback

• It is not going to work perfectly first time
• Humans use the system
• Practitioners are often not implementers
• Models of PDP or e-portfolio use differ
• Catch and sort problems as they arise
• Further discussion on web site

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Feedback to us as well

• From the same groups as this morning
• Have we helped clarify your thinking?
• What other information might you need?
• If you are an MLEs for Lifelong Learning project,
  what other support would help?