Open Architecture and Schools in Society

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OASIS

• Open Architecture and Schools in Society
• http//oasis.cnice.mecd.es

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The goals

• To keep the public school educational system as
  the leader of the young people education also at
  the Internet
• To pay in particular attention to the
  socialisation role of the traditional schooling
  as one of the main capacities of the traditional
  public system
• To look at the concept of small school virtual
  community around the school portal as the main
  tool to support this approach

My school virtual community against the anonymous
offer at home.
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The means

• School Interoperability how to enable different
  applications to share information data to promote
  interoperability ... in order to improve
  usability, accessibility, efficiency and reduce
  cost.
• School Cost-effective Operation and Maintenance
  how to define and implement administration
  procedures and tools driven to structured and
  effective service provisioning, in order to
  improve quality and reduce cost through
  specialised external hosting and service
  provisioning (Municipalities, etc.), with
  Cost-effective and User-friendly administration
  solutions .

Knowledge networking against educational products
sophistication.
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The technical challenge

• The technical design demands
• there is a strong need of technical
  interoperability
• system administration interoperability.
• but there is also a strong need of a semantic
  interoperability.
• The technical infrastructure demands
• One demand comes to support the ubiquity of the
  access. Typically, more computers or terminals in
  more classrooms and other school premises will be
  needed. But that extends in the future to other
  installations for example infrared LAN
  connections to facilitate the use of portable
  notepads.
• Another demand comes to support process capacity.
  Typically, video processing, routing, data bases.
• The human resources demands
• Ministries of Education, have extreme
  difficulties in having the human resources to
  support the school networks. They are
  increasingly unable to cope with exponentially
  growing demands on maintenance.

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The schools cost effective open architecture
main lines

• Architectural topography. The architecture is
  based on the setting up of Zone Servers,
  supporting and complementing the School LAN
  server.
• Regarding administrative easiness, if there is an
  agreement on semantics, zone servers could hold
  an agreed database of metadata related to the
  actors, on one hand, and on the applications
  themselves on the other, as the basis to match
  applications with users and applications with
  each other.
• Regarding semantics interoperability, XML brings
  an excellent opportunity to agree on a school
  oriented XML dialect, by working on a data model
  of the most common school data objects of school
  actors, actions and events.
• An architecture that supports ubiquity and
  concentration of process capacity, can be
  facilitated by the preferred use of the JAVA
  approach.

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The good news about the SIF

• The Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) is
  an industry initiative to develop a technical
  blueprint for Schools Software that will enable
  diverse applications to interact and share data
  now and in the future.
• The industrial support to the SIF is overwhelming
  
• The architectural approach is very much in line
  with the needs of an open and cost effective
  Schools Open Architecture

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SIF areas and models

• UNDERLAYING MODELS
• Zone Integration Architecture
• Data Model, an XML DTD development
• Event Reporting A Publishing and Subscription
  Model
• Data Provision A Request and Response Model
• Communication An Asynchronous Model
• Architectural Components

• COVERED AREAS
• SIF ARCHITECTURE
• MESSAGE PROCESSING
• HTTP/HTTPS TRANSPORT LAYER
• SIF INFRASTRUCTURE
• CURRICULUM
• FOOD SERVICES
• GRADEBOOK
• FINANCIALS
• LIBRARY AUTOMATION
• STUDENT INFORMATION
• TRANSPORTATION

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Partners

• Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte. CNICE
  (Centro Nacional de Información y Comunicación
  Educativa) lthttp//www.cnice.mecd.es/gt
• Ministry of Education and Science, Sweden.
  Kommitten for Europeiska Skoldatanatet (KES)
  lthttp//www.eun.org/gt
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  lthttp//www.upm.es/gt
• Universiteit van Amsterdam lthttp//www.uva.nl/gt
• Umea Universitet lthttp//www.umu.se/gt
• Sun Microsystems lthttp//www.sun.com/sunsite/europ
  e.htmlgt
• Apple lthttp//www.apple.com/eurogt
• Sistemas y Redes Telemáticas lthttp//www.sire.es/gt
  
• Académie de Grenoble lthttp//www.ac-grenoble.fr/ad
  min/sommaire.htmgt

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The interrelation of tasks
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Workpackages

• WP1- Requirements Validation WP 1.1 User
  requirements, WP 1.2 Collaborative Learning
• WP2- Interoperability, Standardisation and
  Harmonisation.
• WP3- Open Code Software Library
• WP4- Examples of OASIS ComponentsWP 4.1 Zone
  Server,WP 4.2 School Server, WP 4.3 Java based
  Kernel
• WP5- Architectural Technological PilotsWP 5.1
  Zone Server,WP 5.2 School Server, WP 5.3
  Wireless UbiquityWP6- Dissemination and
  exploitation
• WP7- Project management

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The work regarding the SIF

• The workpackage about Interoperability will check
  by a group of experts each of the DATA MODELS
  proposed by the SIF for each of the scenarios, to
  see
• Its suitability for the European Schools
  scenario
• Its compatibility with other developments for
  the European Schools like the Treasury Browser
  metadata navigation structure
• Its compatibility with other ongoing works at
  the PROMETEUS initiative.
• It will make recommendations for adoption for the
  School Networks of some or all the SIF proposals,
  and make comments, propose changes or adaptations
  or improvements where required.

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An example

• 5.CURRICULUM
•  Relevant European References
•  DTD SIA Model
• DTD SIA
•  Most suited partner
• MEF (in close collaboration with SME)
•  This report requires input from the European
  school networks, as the basic data model has to
  be flexible enough to be prepared for a
  localisation, country by country, that makes the
  data model fit to the same data model, or at
  least a subset of it, that is used for
  administrative purposes by the official documents
  and systems.

• Data Model
• Common Elements
• Address
• Demographics
• GridLocation
• HealthContact
• Immunization
• Name
• OtherId
• PhoneNumber
• Screening
• Data Analysis Reporting Working Group Objects