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Schools Interoperability Framework
Association Introductions/Developers
Track Agenda New Activity/Directions in SIF
Infrastructure Mark Reichert Schools
Interoperability Framework Association
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Introductions/Agenda

• Developers Track tailored to Audience
• Today
• 1115-1300
• New Activity/Directions in SIF Infrastructure
• 1400-1600
• SIF for Developers/Technical Overview of
  Infrastructure
• 1700 (for interested parties)
• Internationalization Task Force Conference Call
• Tomorrow
• 900-1045
• SIF/Development QA
• Development/Implementation Experiences
• 1100-1300, 1400-1515
• Birmingham ZIS Connect-a-thon

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New Activity/Direction

• SIF Services
• SIF SOAP Transport
• Internationalization of SIF Infrastructure/Data
  Model

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SIF Services

• Complex choreographies and functionality only
  loosely tied to a physical data model very
  difficult/awkward to model using existing
  services within SIFrequest, response,
  add/change/delete events
• Services encapsulate data and provide interfaces
  to possibly complex functionality through
  methods/operations/notifications that make the
  most sense for the domain

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Features of SIF Services

• Provided in a SIF Zone
• Asynchronous, routed by intermediary broker (ZIS)
• Support both methods and notification events
• Subject to access control
• Packetization of large data transfers
• Define their own sets of errors/faults, separate
  from those of the SIF infrastructure

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SIF_Message Implementation

• SIF_ServiceRequest
• SIF_ServiceResponse
• SIF_ServiceEvent

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Examples

• Assessment Processing Service
• Student Financial Account Service
• Immunization Compliance Service

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SIF SOAP Transport

• Third SIF-defined transport after SIF HTTPS and
  SIF HTTP
• Provided a Web Services over SOAP interface to
  the ZIS (and to Push-Mode agents)
• Leverage industry profiles to provide as much
  out-of-the-box interoperability as possible
• Can be used to interface with all of the
  functionality of the SIF infrastructure (provide,
  subscribe, events, request/response, etc.) in
  addition to SIF services

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Internationalization of SIF Infrastructure/Data
Model

• Eliminate dependencies of SIF infrastructure on
  SIF data model, to allow pluggable
  international data models into one
  globally-defined infrastructure
• SIF Infrastructure a specification unto itself
• Each data model its own specification
• Separate versioning and namespaces for
  infrastructure and data models, a SIF
  Implementation Specification release still ties
  together an infrastructure version and a data
  model version
• Still need to work through versioning issues,
  wildcard version support of infrastructure, data
  model and/or specification
• Moving forward possible definition of shared
  data model for common data objects, common
  elements used in all international data models
• Inaugural Internationalization Task Force
  conference call today at 1700

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QA/For More Information

• http//www.sifinfo.org
• Thank you.
• Mark Reichert
• Chief Technical Officer
• mreichert_at_sifinfo.org