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BS 8581 and all that jazz

by alanepaull on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 data specification 0 Comments

BS 8581-1 is the catchy name for the emerging British standard that is / was XCRI-CAP. Members of BSI committee IST/43 (trips of the tongue, no?) have...

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Vocabularies and validation

by Craig Hawker on Monday, 20 February 2012 validation 0 Comments

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts aimed at documenting the development of an XCRI-CAP 1.2 validator. The entire series can be found by vis...

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Vocabulary Framework

by alanepaull on Wednesday, 15 February 2012 data specification 0 Comments

I've now at last published the draft Vocabulary Framework Document for the Course Data Programme: you can get it at http://www.xcri.co.uk/KbLibrary/Co...

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Validation: a first public look

by Craig Hawker on Monday, 13 February 2012 validation 0 Comments

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts aimed at documenting the development of an XCRI-CAP 1.2 validator. The entire series can be found by vis...

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State of the Nation

by Craig Hawker on Monday, 06 February 2012 validation 0 Comments

This is the third in a series of blog posts aimed at documenting the development of an XCRI-CAP 1.2 validator. The entire series can be found by visi...

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Validation Library structure

by Craig Hawker on Monday, 30 January 2012 validation 0 Comments

This is the second in a series of blog posts aimed at documenting the development of an XCRI-CAP 1.2 validator. The entire series can be found by vis...

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Straw man

by alanepaull on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 data specification 0 Comments

Well, the first public draft of the straw man data definitions document has been published (Version 1.6 of Data Definitions). It's rather longer than ...

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XCRI-CAP 1.2 validation - the first steps

by Craig Hawker on Monday, 23 January 2012 validation 0 Comments

This is the first in a series of blog posts aimed at documenting the development of an XCRI-CAP 1.2 validator. My aim is to post a new blog post ever...

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Working group working

by alanepaull on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 data specification 0 Comments

The working group on data specification and vocabularies has started. Many thanks to the early birds who've already begun to comment on the initial 's...

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Welcome to the data specification and vocabularies blog!

by alanepaull on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 data specification 0 Comments

This blog section is to focus on the work we're doing on the data definitions (or specifications, I'm not sure quite which one I prefer) and vocabular...

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Welcome to the XCRI-CAP 1.2 validation blog section

by admin on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 validation 0 Comments

Welcome to the XCRI-CAP 1.2 validation blog! The validator will be created by Craig Hawker of the Course Data Consortium. It will be based on the X...

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XCRI-CAP and KIS

by alanepaull on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 General 0 Comments

For anyone who's missed it.... Bonnie Ferguson at the University of Kent has written a very useful blog entry about XCRI-CAP and KIS. Worth a read and...

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XCRI Knowledge Base - a face lift

by alanepaull on Monday, 12 September 2011 General 0 Comments

We've nearly finished giving the XCRI Knowledge Base a face lift. In the summer of this year... Starting again. Earlier this year during the months t...

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From Tony Hirst: Several Million Up for Grabs in JISC ‘Course Data’ Call. On the Other Hand…

by alanepaull on Monday, 05 September 2011 General 0 Comments

For another perspective on the Course Data programme, see Tony Hirst's blog post http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/09/05/several-million-up-for-grabs-in...

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XCRI Self-assessment Framework updating

by alanepaull on Friday, 26 August 2011 General 0 Comments

JISC has approved some work on upgrading the XCRI Self-assessment Framework and the XCRI Knowledge Base prior to the start of Stage 1 of the Course Da...

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Consolidated Recommendations Inc.

by alanepaull on Thursday, 11 August 2011 General 0 Comments

Over the last few days Kirstie and I have been synthesizing the recommendations from the XCRI-CAP Self-assessment Framework Field Testing projects. We...

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"CURRICULUM DESIGN: X MARKS THE SPOT?" a CETIS blog post about XCRI by Lou McGill

by alanepaull on Friday, 05 August 2011 General 0 Comments

From the CETIS blog 'Other Voices', Lou McGill considers how institutions connect and manage course information, and the role that XCRI can play.

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Data specifications - help please!

by alanepaull on Friday, 29 July 2011 General 0 Comments

Do you have any data specifications or other information about the data content that is included in your XCRI-CAP feeds or files? I’m trying to collect as many data specs as possible for the many organisations that are using XCRI-CAP, so that we can start to construct draft data specifications for 'communities of practice'. This will help to avoid inconsistencies between XCRI-CAP feeds and will make it much easier for aggregators to consume the data efficiently.

If you are able to help, please contact me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Alan Paull

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Return of the original XCRI

by alanepaull on Tuesday, 26 July 2011 General 0 Comments

The original XCRI schema, release 1.0, which covered all types of courses information, had been hosted on the eFramework website for many years. This website is no longer available, so the schema has been moved the XCRI Knowledge Base. No background information to the schema is available yet. See http://www.xcri.co.uk/schemas/xcri_r1.0.xsd.

It's also worth noting here that it's being used successfully in the CUMULUS project.

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XCRI eXchange - making progress on the videos

by alanepaull on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 General 0 Comments

Having received the live captured Flash files from colleagues at the Video Production Group in the University of Nottingham, I'm now getting the mater...

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It's arrived!

by alanepaull on Monday, 11 July 2011 General 0 Comments

JISC Grant Funding 8/11: JISC ‘Course Data: Making the most of Course Information’ Capital Programme - Call for Letters of Commitment It's now arriv...

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XCRI eXchange National Showcase - an initial verdict from Paul Bailey

by alanepaull on Wednesday, 29 June 2011 General 0 Comments

See Paul Bailey's blog entry about Monday's event at Nottingham....

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XCRI: End of the beginning

by Scott Wilson on Wednesday, 29 June 2011 General 0 Comments

There was a theme developing at the XCRI Assembly in June. An extended period of beta testing and specification development is now drawing to an end: ...

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#coursedata: preparing for increased demand

by rob-work on Friday, 24 June 2011 General 0 Comments

We have grown used to the instant availability of information, and when a swift web search doesn't return the results we need or expect the assumpti...

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GetTheData: Data / API FAQs for XCRI-CAP?

by alanepaull on Tuesday, 21 June 2011 General 0 Comments

I always keep an eye on Tony Hirst's OUseful.Info blog, because, well, it's very useful. If you don't know it, try it out. Tony's latest post was cal...

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MUSKET Benefits Realisation Workshop - 13 June 2011

by alanepaull on Wednesday, 15 June 2011 General 0 Comments

On Monday last we had the final MUSKET Benefits Realisation Workshop at Middlesex University's Hendon Campus. We had presentations from colleagues fro...

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Field testing the XCRI Self-assessment Framework and other resources: Start up meeting

by alanepaull on Thursday, 09 June 2011 General 1 Comment

On Tuesday 7 June we had a virtual meeting to start the 6 projects that are field testing the XCRI Self-assessment Framework and other resources that ...

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Welcome to All About XCRI!

by alanepaull on Wednesday, 08 June 2011 General 0 Comments

Welcome to our new eXchanging Course Related Information blog - All About XCRI. eXchanging Course Related Information has been happening for deca...

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