XCRI-CAP eXchanging Course Related Information with associated Course Advertising Profile

• XCRI-CAP is an information standard which specifies the structure and definitions of programme marketing information

• XCRI-CAP produces a live XML feed about programmes, available via a URL to outside users

• XCRI-CAP takes its information automatically from internal data sources, ensuring that it is up-to-date and accurate

What is XCRI-CAP?

• Promoted by JISC (used to be short for Joint Information Systems Committee) – ‘the UK’s expert on digital technology for education and research’

• JISC ran an XCRI-CAP project Jan 2012 – Mar 2013• including 93 higher education institutions• All signed up to producing a XCRI-CAP compliant

XML feed of some or all of their programmes

Where did the idea of XCRI-CAP come from?

• Better information for prospective students – ‘Students at the heart of the system’

• Data interoperability, i.e. to enable information to be shared efficiently between the computerised information systems – enter once use many times

• Efficiency• Consistency• Quality control

Why adopt XCRI-CAP?

• Course search websites• Internal uses, e.g. links to the the HEAR (Higher

Education Achievement Report)• Potentially in the future: UCAS and other bodies

needing programme information

How will XCRI-CAP be used?

How did the University of Greenwich implement XCRI-CAP?

JISC XCRI-CAP feed manager:http://coursedata.k-int.com/FeedManager/

JISC demonstrator aggregator:http://coursedata.k-int.com/discover/

University of Greenwich XML feed:http://w2.gre.ac.uk/data/courses.xml

What does an XCRI-CAP feed look like in practice?

JISC demonstrator aggregator:

http://coursedata.k-int.com/FeedManager/

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• JISC briefing:http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/

briefingpaper/2012/Sharing_and_managing_course_data.pdf

• JISC contact:Ruth Drysdale r.drysdale@jisc.ac.uk• University of Greenwich XCRI material:http://www.gre.ac.uk/offices/pas/xcri

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