Re: [seul-edu] Re: Comprehensive Student Management

[Michael Williams <michael@haywood.k12.nc.us>]

 Here are the SIF standards

http://www.siia.net/sif/

Michael Williams


Bruno Vernier wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 07:27:45PM -0400, Douglas Loss wrote:
>
> > This all makes sense.  Do you have an idea as to when SIF is
> > supposed to release their final specification?
>
> re: SIF
>
> the website does not respond (the last 3 times over a 2 month period) and
> the microsoft education site still offers the ZIF server (associated to SIF)
> but no links to anything else remotely to do with SIF...  If I were a
> betting man, I'd say that this path is going nowhere fast.
>
> re: IMS
>
> They have just released v.1.01 of the Question and Answer XML/DTD
> and v. 1.0 of the Packaging XML/DTD
>
> see http://www.imsproject.org
>
> which means all members of IMS agree to write software that accepts data in
> those formats for those purposes.  If we write conforming content in those
> XML formats, that content would be usable on their software
> (if we are licenced to use their programs).
>
> Likewise, if we write conformant software, we can use their data
> (if we are licenced to use their data).
>
> If I were a betting man, I'd say IMS is going places though not at lightning
> speeds :-)
>
> Bruno