2019 Learning Impact Leadership Institute

Over the past 20 years IMS has published an extensive set of specifications to enable interoperability for education technology.  IMS only create a specification when there is no other alternative to adopt and adapt. Even when creating an IMS specification, there are many situations when these make use of specifications and standards developed by other organizations.  IMS makes extensive use of work from other specifications and standards publishing organizations such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF), the International Standards Organization (ISO), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), etc. We use this work to provide for encoding the data formats e.g. XML and JSON, to provide computer readable descriptions e.g. WSDL and OpenAPI, to enable the underlying communications exchange e.g. HTTP and TCP.  We also use work that complements our own edtech interoperability such as IEEE LOM, Schema.Org, CEDS, etc.

During this session, the IMS Chief Architect will explain how IMS has made use of other specifications and international standards. He will also identify the other specifications and standards that will be adopted by IMS over the next 12 months. We take a pragmatic approach to specification development and leverage as much external specifications, standard and best practice as possible. Awareness of this other work is essential when adopting IMS specifications. This is an excellent opportunity to understand how the IMS specification suite builds upon other specifications and standards.