Organization and date
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Contents of the ASN
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Achievement Content Standards Repository (ACSR) includes over 713 learning
standards documents for K-12 education as promulgated by departments of
education in each of the United States plus standards from nationally
recognized content groups.
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Web Services Interfaces, protocols and agents that connect various classes of
users to the content and functionality of the ACSR.
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Research and Development on best practices and recommendations for representing
content and skill standards within metadata records and educational systems.
Functions of the ASN
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Standards Development Application assists standards bodies in developing well
structured standards by providing a Web-based standards authoring
environment. Developed originally for SETDA, the development application
is available to ASN member organizations maintaining standards within the ASN.
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Standards Repository Application manages the ACSR data store of state,
national, and international standards as well as the interface to the standards
development application. The Standards Repository Application also
handles the processes associated with batch download of RDF/XML standards
documents under license by third-party publishers, intermediaries and other
service providers.
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Metadata Generation Interface (in development) provides the means through Web
Services for third-party metadata generation tools to interact with the ACSR
supporting searching and browsing and the assigning of ASN unique statement
identifiers (URIs) to local metadata records.
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ASN URI Resolver Application dereferences a state or national ASN standard URI
embedded in a metadata record to the full-text of the URIs associated ASN
taxon path.
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State Resolver Application manages the SOAP services that accepts an ASN
URI and a state unique identifier and returns the taxon paths for the
designated state standards that have been mapped to the ASN URI.
Maintenance and Updates
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The ASN XML license includes XML files of standards, current on the effective
date of the license. Periodic updates to the standards occur on quarterly basis
and optionally more frequently based on JES & Co.'s own discretion via Web
Download.
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All files distributed by the ASN are encoded in RDF/XML. Standards in ASN
version 1.2 represent restructured and refined data from the Align to Achieve
(A2A) Version 1.0 files to more accurately reflect the structure and content of
the official standards documents.
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Standards expressed in the Version 1.0 (XML) format are being updated to
Version 1.2 (RDF/XML) format. Upon update to Version 1.2, Version 1.0 file
distributions will be discontinued.
The ASN is partially funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.
DUE-0121717.
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Index
to the Achievement Standards Network:
About the ASN
How the ASN Works
Service Descriptions
Technical Documentation
Licensing Resources and Services
ASN Contacts
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The GEM Exchange is a partnership dedicated to the design, development and
deployment of enabling technologies for the processes of teaching and learning.
Partners include:
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The Information School of the University of Washington
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JES and Co. a 501(c)(3) dedicated to providing youth with balanced environments
that enable development of effective communication skills through the use of
technology
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The Information Institute of Syracuse
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