Use Cases
The initial use cases targeted by Meadowlark are focused on K12 local education agencies (LEAs) and student information systems data.
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These represent a subset of the current market problems and functionality delivered by the Ed-Fi ODS/API. This narrowing of overall Ed-Fi use cases was made to limit the complexity and scope of the project, and does not reflect any intentions about future investments in other use cases not included here.
Functional Areas
Meadowlark focuses on two functions of the current Ed-Fi ODS platform:
Ed-Fi API surface
On the first of these, API implementation, Meadowlark provides an API that is designed to mimic the Ed-Fi ODS API and to meet the published Ed-Fi API specifications. We refer to this as "API parity", and addressing this parity was by far the largest focus of the project.
In some cases, the project decided not to pursue full parity with the current ODS API or the specifications. The reasons for this vary, but do not individually suggest that there are any "blockers" to using cloud technology services as the basis for an Ed-Fi data exchange architecture. Gaps to API parity are covered in this document: Meadowlark - API Parity Gaps
Support for data management and analytics
The second focus was on how that data (once loaded from a vendor system) could be used by an education agency (which was – given the use cases above – an LEA).
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