Agenda

• TAG meeting frequency: should keep monthly or alter to bimonthly or even quarterly?
• Error handling improvements: high level overview
• Open conversation on AI, data interoperability, and the roles the Ed-Fi Alliance and the Ed-Fi Community

Materials

• Optional pre-read for Technical Advisory Group September 2023

Participants

Notes

Meeting Frequency

• SIS and MSP special interest groups don't have agency representation.
• Not seeing input to agenda directly from the TAG members - continue to solicit.
• No clear consensus on timing. Many open to continuing with monthly, others fine with changing to bimonthly.

Error Handling

• Question: will additional error messaging take up more log space? Answer: no change to what is output to log file.
• Can the error messages themselves be more user friendly?
  • SF editorial response: Difficult, because Ed-Fi API language perforce won't match source system language. The model terms and names are already "universal", and specific end-user instructions will depend on the software.

AI Conversation

• Responsible AI can drive demand for interoperability.
• AI requires more data - both breadth (for interesting conclusions) and depth (for informative / less-biased conclusions). Data Standard makes that exchange more feasible.
• Greatest value of AI is in generating insights, and helping people ask more question of the data.
• Unclear if there is a role for AI in data validation.
• IEP: yes, should provide support for unstructured text.
  • A resource for storing blobs.
  • A resource for storing summaries or decomposition of those blobs.
• Provenance: yes, need to store that.

Next Meeting

16 Nov 2023 members: please send any agenda suggestions.

Action Items

• Stephen's decision for now: switch meeting schedule to bi-monthly. 
• Ed-Fi Alliance team will continue looking into how to position the Ed-Fi Data Standard and tech stack to support future AI initiatives.