[CAnet - news] SOA in Higher Education

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[Excellent workshop on use of SOA in higher ed, which I expect will be as
transformative as in business and other areas of society -- BSA]



Bill,

As discussed, here is the link to the outputs of the SOA workshop in
Vancouver last month.  Go to
http://educationcommons.org/projects/display/SOA/Home .  Click on the
Workshop March 2006 link to see all the workshop material.    Look for the
16 (or so) "service candidates" we identified as emerging out of the
high-level business process of "apply for admission".  We demonstrated the
power of service oriented analysis and the existence of abundant reusable
services at or close to the infrastructure level (though Thomas Erl calls
these "application services").  The MIT/OKI crowd and UK representative were
particularly helpful in working this through.

 
We are starting to piece together some of the next steps and have identified
the following "tracks" going forward:

Entity definition 
Business process discovery 
Application service candidate discovery 
Experimental implementation exercises (Proof of Concept) 
Data representation architecture and schema definition 
Higher education "basic profile" definition 
Security and privacy requirements definition 
Technology alternatives selection -- should be deferred to Service-Oriented
Analysis stage 

By the time we reach CANHEIT, we should have a penultimate version of the
report (feasibility study) funded by the Mellon Foundation.  Be sure to
attend the presentation by Richard Spencer and Leo Fernig
 

Ted Dodds

Associate Vice President, Information Technology & CIO

The University of British Columbia

http://www.e-strategy.ubc.ca


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