royal holloway course data project poster

Course Data: making the most of course information

Aim At Royal Holloway we aim to use enterprise

architecture (EA) techniques to inform a holistic course data ecosystem that will provide a foundation for strategic future

organisational transformation and compliance around course advertising, course data management and syllabus

management.

The problem The college’s Course Finder project and

JISC Course Data Stage 1 project revealed how much manual effort is required to

maintain course data in various repositories, how little automated data reuse there is across systems and how

difficult it is to bring all relevant information together for a college wide

advertising service.

The ESB provides a means of

communication between web

services of our legacy

applications, new data warehouse and application

servers in a service oriented

architecture.

From the legacy systems we extract the data that they

are authoritative for and add them into

the new schema while the other data in the schema will be managed by the data management system through a

web service.

The new data warehouse will host a schema

which provides a single view of all course data and

will be populated from the data

requirements of the legacy

applications and other course

related data sets such as XCRI-CAP and KIS.

XCRI-CAP feed and any other data

requirement could be generated from the

data warehouse through web services.

For more info about the project please contact: Godswill Arum godswill.arum@rhul.ac.uk or Helen Newcombe helen.newcombe@rhul.ac.uk