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Jeff Kahn has contributed a Java Swing control that can be used as a basis for picking ASN standards for content alignment. This code was showcased at the IMS Quarterly Meeting in Redmond, WA. The ASN Java Swing control was part of a demo by SoftChalk. You can read more about SoftChalks's ASN integration on SoftChalk's Blog.
Click here to download the ASN Java Swing control. There is also a short video you can watch that shows this code in action inside SoftChalk.
Thanks to Jeff and SoftChalk for making this code available to the ASN community!
Did you know that all ASN manifest files work out-of-the-box with Sencha's EXT JS library including: tree panels, checkbox trees and drag/drop trees? Well, they do! We use the Open Source version of EXT JS on this site when displaying standards. See http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/D2364040 for an example of our viewer. You can now download a sample ASN manifest viewer application here. Just upload to a server, unzip the files and point to the index.html file.
You can download ASN manifests by simply appending "_manifest.json" to any ASN Document URI. For example: http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/D2364040_manifest.json You will be prompted to download the manifest file in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.
If you have created applications that use ASN data and would like to share them with the ASN community Contact Us and we'll highlight them here.
You can now browse the ASN using our RDF store's faceted search interface. You can initiate a search by text, property label or URI. Here's how to begin:
Start by going to: http://asn.jesandco.org:8890/fct
From there you can:
There are a lot of side features to this interface including saving search results and adding the ASN search engine as a plugin to your web browser.
If you'd like more documentation on how to use our faceted search please visit the faceted search documentation page.
Read about how to use the new ASN REST based web services that are now in Beta. Get listings of jurisdictions and subjects while filtering ASN documents using various parameters. You can also find this information under the "Access the ASN Now" drop down menu.
We now have published documentation on how to use the new ASN URI resolution service. Learn how to request ASN data in various serializations and how to hack our URI's with some new web service options that we added to both document and statement URI's. This documentation can also be found under the "Access the ASN Now" dropdown menu item on the main ASN site.
Read the most recent ASN Newsletter - New Site, New Services. In this newsletter:
- Tour the New ASN Website
- ASN Resource Description Editor
- New ASN RDF/XML Export Version
- ASN Web Services - New Resolver Service and Progress on other New Services
- ASN Toolkit - ASN Mapping Tool
ASN Export Version 3.0.0 includes:
- {{dcterms:tableOfContents}} data element which links to that documents manifest file (statement order/easy parsing)
- New {{asn:identifier}} data element contains PURL URI if previously assigned
- New asn.jesandco.org URI's which enable content negotiation
- xml:lang attributes are now included on every literal value
- {{dcterms:license}} and {{asn:exportVersion}} are now non-literals
- {{dcterms:created}} data element changed to {{dcterms:valid}}
- {{dc:subject}} data element changed to {{dcterms:subject}}
- {{dc:description}} data element changed to {{dcterms:description}}
- {{dc:language}} data element changed to {{dcterms:language}} and is now a non-literal value
- Removed all {{rdf:Seq}} and {{rdf:li}} resource groupings. {{gemq:hasChild}} data element remains (for statement ordering see manifest URI ({{dcterms:tableOfContents}}))
- {{asn:fileCreated}} replaced by {{asn:repositoryDate}}
The ASN website has been updated. You can still find ASN documentation and other information pertaining to the ASN using the menu bar along the top of the screen. Along with the new ASN website, we also updated our ASN Viewer which has now become the ASN Standards Locator Beta* which is available under the 'Access the ASN Now' menu. This new view of the ASN shows all the metadata about particular documents and statements in an easy to browse tree format.
The ASN RDF/XML data has also undergone some changes. These new changes include a new manifest URI which allows for easy parsing of statements and their metadata and changes/additions to various ASN properties.
Also expect to see a revamp of all the ASN web services in the coming weeks as we open the ASN RDF store to the Semantic Web. The new ASN RDF/XML will also be made publicly available at that time. Please check back with us as this site will be updated when the new services come online.
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The 2nd Quarter 2010 Update to the ASN is now available. Here is a list of the
new additions for Q2 2010:
- Colorado - Colorado Academic Standards for Reading, Writing and Communicating, English 2009
- Colorado - Colorado Academic Standards for Mathematics, Math 2009
- Colorado - Colorado Academic Standards for Science, Science 2009
- Colorado - Colorado Academic Standards for Social Studies, Social Studies 2009
- Delaware - Geography Standards, updated January 2010, Geography 2010
- Delaware - Economics Standards, updated January 2010, Economics 2010
- Delaware - Civics Standards, updated January 2010, Civics 2010
- Delaware - History Standards, updated January 2010, Historical Understanding 2010
- West Virginia - 21st Century Science 9-12 Content Standards and Objectives for West Virginia Schools, Science 2010
- Virginia - English Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools, English 2010
- Virginia - Science Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools, Science 2010
Washington, DC – November 19, 2009 - At the annual National Science Distributed Learning conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), participants learned how JES & Co.’s Achievement Standards Network (ASN) framework is being used by Australia’s Curriculum Corporation in an effort to link educational resource data globally. Representing Australia’s nationally funded Le@rning Federation Initiative was Jillian Dellit, for 9 years Director of The Le@rning Federation Secretariat. Diny Golder, the executive director of JES & Co., the home of the ASN, has been working with Ms. Dellit for over 10 years in an effort to launch an international exchange of learning resources, discoverable by learning objective or achievement standards. Stuart Sutton, the lead scientist for the ASN project, has worked closely with Curriculum Corporation’s Steve Sunter and Les Kneebone to align Australia’s rich educational vocabularies to existing ASN properties.
Presented to the National Science Distributed Learning community was a demonstration of the ASN configurable Resource Description Editor (RDE) developed in cooperation with Zepheira that has been configured to meet Australia’s unique educational needs. Many in the area of education publishing are familiar with resource metadata, but the notion of describing learning goals is fairly new. The ASN is both an open source framework for the description and encoding of achievement standards and an open resource, Web-accessible repository of all historical and current U.S. K-12 standards. The ASN was partially funded at its start by NSF through its National Science Digital Library (NSDL) initiative. The repository of U.S. K-12 standards has APIs that enable cataloging tools to link to the repository in order to search, browse and assign identifiers (URI) for fine-grained achievement assertions to learning resources. All identifiers so assigned are then resolvable over the Web, yielding related metadata and the text of the achievement assertion identified. Ms. Dellit explained to the audience the opportunities in the current Australian context and the ways in which the ASN will leverage some of the Australian digital resource work of the last decade.
To quote Sutton, "The configurable RDE is the first complete RDF editor architecture for the description of entities and the relationships among those entities in a way that supports Linked Data and Semantic Web goals by catalogers and metadata generators without the need for those people to understand XML or RDF.” JES & Co. plans on joining the Linked Data community with a focus on CyberLearning; a networked world of open source standards, digital tools, services and resources. International collaboration is providing a stimulus and an incentive to reap the benefits of CyberLearning.
