Course Data: making the most of course information The problem
Aim
The college’s Course Finder project and JISC Course Data Stage 1 project revealed how much manual effort is required to maintain course data in various repositories, how little automated data reuse there is across systems and how difficult it is to bring all relevant information together for a college wide advertising service.
At Royal Holloway we aim to use enterprise architecture (EA) techniques to inform a holistic course data ecosystem that will provide a foundation for strategic future organisational transformation and compliance around course advertising, course data management and syllabus management.
The ESB provides a means of communication between web services of our legacy applications, new data warehouse and application servers in a service oriented architecture.
From the legacy systems we extract the data that they are authoritative for and add them into the new schema while the other data in the schema will be managed by the data management system through a web service.
XCRI-CAP feed and any other data requirement could be generated from the data warehouse through web services.
The new data warehouse will host a schema which provides a single view of all course data and will be populated from the data requirements of the legacy applications and other course related data sets such as XCRICAP and KIS.
For more info about the project please contact: Godswill Arum godswill.arum@rhul.ac.uk or Helen Newcombe helen.newcombe@rhul.ac.uk