Introduction

This documentation describes concepts and techniques necessary to understand and successfully implement the Ed-Fi Data Standard.

Audience

This documentation is for technical professionals who work with educational data, including business analysts, database administrators, and software developers.

Prerequisites

To gain the most benefit from this information, the reader should already be familiar with the following knowledge areas:

• Extensible Markup Language (XML), see www.w3.org/XML
• XML Schema (XSD), see www.w3.org/standards/xml/schema
• Data Modeling, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_modeling 
• Unified Modeling Language (UML) as applied to conceptual Data Modeling, see www.uml.org