Please note that the Data Standard development branch on GitHub is still being updated. The XSD files included here are up-to-date, but in order to show granular changes (via GitHub commits) the changes on GitHub will not be completed until May 19, 2017. This message will be removed when the updates are complete.
Different use-cases and different periodicities of data exchange require different interchange schema. Ed-Fi Data Standard v2.1b contains a set of 21 proposed Standard Interchange Schemas to handle common data exchange use cases, including basic student profile information, attendance records, assessment results, program participation, and many other information-transfer scenarios.
The proposed v2.1b introduces few changes from v2.0 schemas, beyond introducing new, proposed domain entities into existing interchange schemas where applicable.
The Ed-Fi Standard Interchange Schemas are XSD files, all of which utilize the domain entities and other types defined in the Ed-Fi Core schema. Through field-testing, the standard Ed-Fi schema definitions provide a rigorous structure for data, but allow a reasonable degree of flexibility to account for different levels of source data availability.
Data Handbook (Excel)
The following link is a ZIP archive containing all the Standard Interchange Schema XSD for Ed-Fi v2.1b along with the Ed-Fi Core XSD for each schema:Ed-Fi-v2-1b-Bulk-XSD-Bundle.zip