Semantic Standardization with XHEIE Credentials

• Sebastian Sklarß, XHigherEducationInstitutionExchange
• Oliver Budke, XHigherEducationInstitutionExchange

Abstract

Have you ever wondered how students will be able to change their higher education institution without submitting a single sheet of paper? XHEIE credentials will therefore leverage interoperable systems. This workshop by the team of XHochschule will focus on semantic standardization. The specific credential with which participants will get a better understanding of student data exchange between higher education institution systems is still to be chosen.
XHEIE credentials are established for the media-consistent processing of future digital administrative services. To this end, a procedure that has been tried and tested in other standardisation projects is described as follows:

1. A standardisation strategy is developed and coordinated
2. The Standardisation requirements are formulated and submitted to the German IT Planning Council (33rd meeting)
3. Together with higher education institutions, ministries of science of the federal states, manufacturers of specialised procedures and other stakeholders, the requirements for standardisation were collected in the project's internal ticket system.
4. The processing of the requirement is provided iteratively in the form of a publicly accessible specification with PDF documentation and machine-processable files (XSD, XML).

The basis for this project is the Online Access Act (short: OZG), which came into force in August 2017. The OZG obliges all German public authorities and higher education institutions to digitally offer their administrative services to citizens and students by the end of 2022. These administrative services, which must be implemented by German higher education institutions, can be viewed on the OZG information platform.

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