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Technical Requirements Workgroup

The Technical Advisory Workgroup (TAW) is a standing chartered Workgroup of the Open Competency Framework Collaborative (OCFC or OCF Collab) Network. Working in collaboration with the Requirements Workgroup on Skills and Competencies (RWSC) described above, the TAW manages all technical development, maintenance and enhancement of the OCFC search and retrieval service, associated data stores and applications in alignment with the Network-identified Use Cases. The TAW will include interactions with, and oversight of the execution of technical development Project Plans as well as contracted vendors assigned to those Plans.

The Chair of the TAW and the assigned Network Facilitators work with the RWSC and the T3N² membership as a whole to continuously canvas for both evolving OCF Collab search and retrieval service needs and potential enhancements to adjacent tools and services such as the Data Ecosystem Schema Mapper (DESM) tool.

The Workgroup will define task-dependent Project Plans from time-to-time to accomplish specific Use Cases and TAW goals.

Workgroup Chair

Phil Barker

Phil is a consultant in educational technology and interoperability standards who has over 25 years experience in the use of technology to enhance learning and information systems for education. Phil chairs the LRMI working group of Dublin Core, which maintains a set of terms and concept schemes for the description of learning resources, and has also chaired several W3C Community Groups concerning the description of courses, educational and occupational credentials and job data. As a consultant Phil works with Credential Engine on CTDL, the Credential Transparency Description Language, and has worked with various T3 projects.

Phil is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he spends much of his time in a small cupboard with lots of books.

Use Cases in Development

• Use Cases in Development

Initiative Workspaces

• Search Service Workspace
• DESM Tool Workspace

Project Plans

OCFC:PP-001: Develop DESM Project Configuration Dashboard (Draft)

Draft OCFC:PP-001 Working Document

Project Description: This project plan defines work to be done in implementing a configuration dashboard for the Data Ecosystem Mapper (DESM) tool to facilitate the setup of the configuration profile by schema mapping leads. The plan and document including wireframes for configuring the Tool for a particular mapping project was developed as part of the work of OCF Collab Phase 2 in 2020.

Associated Use Case