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TAG Meeting 2023-07-20

TAG Meeting 2023-07-20

Jul 20, 2023

Agenda

  • Summit 2023

  • Roadmap updates

  • Validation and error reporting

  • Admin API 2.0

Materials

Participants

  • Josh Bergman

  • David Clements

  • Wyatt Cothran

  • Stephen Fuqua

  • Jason Hoekstra

  • Matt Hoffman

  • Manuel Jaramillo

  • Vinaya Mayya

  • Nadu Nair

  • Oscar Ortega

  • Max Paulson

  • Lucy Saura

  • Sayee Srinivasan

  • Rick Thompson

  • Maureen Wentworth

  • Ann Su

Notes

  • Summit registration

  • Roadmap updates

    • ODS/API 7

      • Not expecting that anyone will use ODS/API 7.0 for 2023-2024 school year - released too late for that.

      • It will be tested to be "production ready", but we anticipate people will upgrade to 7.1 by the time we get to the 2024-2025 school year.

      • Please let us know if you do plan on running 7.0 in production (with Data Standard 4?).

    • Data Checker

      • No one here is using it or knows of anyone using it.

  • Validation and Error Reporting

    • Discussing how error resolution works, Wyatt gave a brief walkthrough of PowerSchool's "Publishing Page". Resources are grouped and ordered sequentially - publish from top down to bottom of the page. Helps you know to stop trying to publish additional resources once you have errors to correct.

    • Not practical to try to assign "universal" or "generic" error messages that work across different source systems, because of differences in how the applications present data and in terminology (example: what Ed-Fi calls a CourseOffering maps to a Course in one student information system).

    • Error codes: requested by Skyward; Aeries and Edupoint agree that error codes would be helpful.

      • Would establish a set of codes that should be used for the same problem in any Ed-Fi compatible API, regardless of the human language text.

      • Source systems could react to that code with specific instructions or potentially even UI updates to help end users resolve problems.

      • Will require code level investigation to determine if feasible (that is, can be done at reasonable cost) in the ODS/API. High priority to investigate this after the ODS/API 7.1 release in November.

      • Will also investigate for Meadowlark.

      • If we determine that it is feasible, then we can do the analysis about what codes to assign for different types of errors.

Next Meeting

Aug 17, 2023 members: please send any agenda suggestions.

Action Items

@Stephen Fuqua send out Summit registration code to each TAG "point person" per organization
@Vinaya Mayya proof of concept work around enriching ODS/API level 1 validation messages with an error code
@David Clements proof of concept work around enriching Meadowlark validation messages with an error code