EPDM Developer Resources

This section provides links to documentation covering the concepts and techniques necessary for a technical professional to understand and successfully implement the Ed-Fi ODS / API with Educator Preparation extensions. 

Audience

The links below are for current and prospective ODS / API with EPDM implementers. Implementers are generally technical professionals who work with educational database systems, including database administrators and software developers.

Links

• What's new with EPDM. Updates in the latest TPDM release.

• TPDM UML Diagram. UML Entity-Relationship Diagram for TPDM Entities.

• Ed-Fi Data Model with EPDM Data Handbook. Searchable, filterable TPDM enhanced version of the Ed-Fi Data Handbook.

• Source code repositories on GitHub:

  • Ed-Fi-TPDM-Community-Model. Contains MetaEd source for the Educator Preparation Data Model.

  • Ed-Fi-TPDM-Community-Artifacts. Contains sample data, descriptors and bulk interchange files for the Educator Preparation Data Model.

  • Ed-Fi ODS & Ed-Fi ODS-Implementation. Repositories for the ODS / API.

• EPDM/TPDM Community Populated Template: A populated template for the ODS / API with EPDM/TPDM data.

• EPDM/TPDM Community Minimal Template: A minimal template with EPDM/TPDM (descriptors only).

• Ed-Fi ODS / API Suite 3 Version 7.2. Technical documentation for the core Ed-Fi ODS / API, of which the ODS / API with TPDM is an extension.