Student Degree Record Exchange Standard

Abstract

Bologona process aimed to ease the mobility of students across Europe. Hence, e orts were put developing standards and proposing suitable archi- tectures that t all across Europe. Inspired by this, the mobility project tried to gather and reuse all the work previously done in related areas. Mo- bility reused the vocabularies, ideas and focused on the mobility of students. However, it created an opportunity for a semi-automated mapping tool for mapping proposed standard to the heterogeneous schema of di erent insti- tutes. It lacks enough vocabulary to cover exchange of information for some educational certi cates in Pakistan. We suggest a prototype infrastructure that provides more control and improves this exchange of information between partaking institutes by cov- ering more detailed vocabulary. The term infrastructure includes both the architecture and our proposed standard (DRESS). We avail the opportunity that The Mobility Project provided and suggest a mapping tool that semi- automatically create mappings between our standard and the heterogeneous data-sets of di erent partaking institutes. To evaluate this research, we created a test-bed environment and vali- dated the proposed standard XML schema de nitions against the generated XML documents using di erent evaluation techniques.