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This is an emergent Ed-Fi specific pattern. The Ed-Fi Alliance would appreciate hearing feedback from anyone who takes this approach.
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How it Works
Rather than building a specialized API definition or directly calling the Ed-Fi API from a user application, the system provider instead utilizes API Publisher to copy some of the data from a remote Ed-Fi API instance into a local one. The local copy could be running the Ed-Fi ODS/API or another application that is a compatible Ed-Fi API. The host for the second copy now has full access to the Ed-Fi data in a local data store.
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