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Stephen A. Fuqua
Director, Software Engineering
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Data Standard 6 - Preview 1

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Stephen A. Fuqua
Director, Software Engineering

The Ed-Fi Alliance has adopted a cadence of releasing breaking changes to the Ed-Fi Data Standard on alternating years. 2025 is such a year and the next release of the Ed-Fi Data Standard - and consequently the Ed-Fi Resources API - will be labeled version 6.0. With a release date months away in Q4, we are inviting early commentary on the changes made to date, in two domains:

  1. Merge the Educator Preparation Data Model (EPDM, fka TPDM) into the core Ed-Fi Data Standard, and expand it to include a new use case around apprenticeships.
  2. Enhance the data model to better support student record transfer, particularly for IEP data as a student moves from one school to another.

For more details, including a snapshot of the Open API specification (aka Swagger file), please see RFC 27 - Data Standard 6.0 (Preview 1)

Call for Posters: Use Cases for the New Data Management Service Platform

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Stephen A. Fuqua
Director, Software Engineering

Tech Congress 2025 is just over a month away and Project Tanager Milestone 0.4.0 has been reached. Can you help us show off what it is (or might be) capable of?

Think of this as a call for posters. If you're not familiar with academic conferences and posters... then maybe you can imagine a science fair board. Do something cool, show it off in a few words and some pictures, and you get a few minutes to narrate for your audience. Complete your "poster" before April 17 so that I have time to incorporate it into a slide deck for an April 23 Tech Congress session showing off the Data Management Service in Action.

Ed-Fi ODS/API and Data Management Service FAQ

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Stephen A. Fuqua
Director, Software Engineering

The recent Ed-Fi blog post New Cloud-Native Functionality Coming to the Ed-Fi Alliance Technology Suite introduced a piece of software under active development, the Ed-Fi Data Management Service.

Eventually, this software will replace the Ed-Fi ODS/API Platform. Unsurprisingly, a few themes emerged in the questions and conversations at Ed-Fi Tech Congress 2024. We've begun addressing those in a new Frequently Asked Questions page in the Project Tanager repository. And we'll continue adding questions and answers on that page as they come upk.

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Project Tanager, as explained in the project's readme, is a code name for the project to create new products, of which the Data Management Service will be the key component.

Rethinking Ed-Fi Technical Documentation and News

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Stephen A. Fuqua
Director, Software Engineering

The Ed-Fi tech team has produced a lot of content over the years. Yet, we continue to face challenges with our documentation. On the one hand, discoverability and awareness seem to be low; on the other, our technical processes for managing the content are at odds with our typical daily workflows.