2018-01-09 Curriculum Model Meeting notes

Date

09 Jan 2018

Time	Item	Who	Notes
	Discuss curriculum model	team	Department users run the curriculum extract in STAR if they need to get curriculum data. Anthony used to send the curriculum extract for engineering students (prof. Phil Conrad's course). They no longer request the extract as they do screen scraping from GOLD and try to rewrite the curriculum search. They also search by GE requirements. We need o add the GE requirements to the curriculum API. Anthony will contact Phil Conrad when we have a first version of the API to review it. Decided to publish at the QSO level, and propagate down data from QCO and Master Course. Parameters for the Curriculum API: always by Quarter, by Department, College, Course ID (need to decide on course parser). Discussed use of URIs. Steven and Diana will bring it to the API management group for discussion. Steven likes lighter response, without a lot of repeated data. Prefers not to use URIs, but keep the information in the API documentation. Reviewed Github's API model. Ann really likes their model. They use URIs heavily. Discussed use of lookup values in APIs. Steven prefers to not return descriptions, but let developers cache lookup table values for translations. Will discuss with the API group for a final decision. Will use URI for paging. Next meeting in 3 weeks. Next steps: Define the object structure Define the parameter list Decide on the parser for Course ID

@Mike Nesbit Add GE Requirements info to Curriculum API spreadsheet
Ann Crawford (Unlicensed) Michael Nesbit (Unlicensed) Define parameter list
Ann Crawford (Unlicensed) Michael Nesbit (Unlicensed) Work on the courseid parser
Ann Crawford (Unlicensed) Michael Nesbit (Unlicensed) define the API pbject structure
Ann Crawford (Unlicensed) check courseid for uniqueness without the spaces
Diana Antova Steven Maglio discuss/set rules with the API management group about the use of URIs, use of lookup values in APIs, where to put paramenteres.