Community Source Student Services System – Birds of Feather Session Notes
June 5, 2006
Participants
- Richard Spencer, UBC (note taker)
- Bob Allen, Alameda County Office of Education
- Adam Rybicki, Unicon
- Rose Thorsen, Informs
- Mike Underwood, Informs
- Paul Zablosky, UBC
- Janet Backe, Simon Fraser University
- Jack Gunter, consultant
- Jens Haeusser, UBC
- Mike Lim, UBC
- Kent Fong, UBC
- Mike Lim, UBC
- Dave Alderson, University of Maryland
- James Watkin, UCLA business school
- Steve Jeyes, doing contract work at University of Hull
- Leo Fernig, UBC
- Charles Severance, Exec director, Sakai Foundation
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The technology being considered is new. For example, Axis 2.0 has just been released.
If you don\'t have expertise in architecture, where is it going to come from?
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Response:
A large top down effort will be required initially, to establish the main SSS modules and produce the high level service analyses. Next, we will have to build services.
For the SSS project, we plan on using Java, but this is not a requirement, and modules can be developed using other languages.
Finally, we have to use orchestration to assemble business process processes that span modules, or systems.
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XML schema vs RDF
Comment
XML Schema schema requires too many pair-wise connections.
Any data model will change over time. The Sakai data model can evolve over time. This allows the addition of data elements without going back to all users and renegotiating. Sakai is looking at RDF, using RSS, which would allow new information to be added without breaking old applications.