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Welcome to the ASN Viewer!

The ASN provides tools and databases that enable access to and interaction with the authoritative collection of learning and content standards from states and national content groups.

Organizations that provide services, applications, or portal access to digital collections, or who conduct research involving learning standards face their own set of challenges. Without an authoritative collection of state and national standards and agreement on the best way to represent them in metadata, basic research and application development can be expensive and in some cases nearly impossible. The ASN provides the tools and services for researchers, service providers and application builders to expose and process learning standards information in catalog and metadata records in an open, extensible way.

The ASN exposes both manual (web browser) and programmatic (web services) access through platform independent, interoperable and extensible services that support current technical standards and application profiles, including Dublin Core, GEM, IMS, IEEE-LOM, OAI-PMH and SIF (Schools Interoperability Framework).