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IMS Enterprise - Summary
Terms of use
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Terms of use
These contents have been obtained from the IMS web site and edited for presentation. Please refer to the IMS web site for additional information on terms of use.
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The scope of the IMS Enterprise Specification is focused on defining interoperability between systems residing within the same enterprise or organization.
A schematic representation of the core data objects exchanged using the IMS Enterprise Specification is given in figure.
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The principal IMS Enterprise data objects
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The core objects are:- Person. The individuals who are undertaking some form of study and/or group related activity e.g., they are members of a particular course. The personal structure only contains information that is used to identify the individual and that is needed in learning systems. It is not designed to be a data repository for all of the personal information about an individual;
- Group. A collection of objects related to learning activities or individuals. The group is a generic container used to define any set of related activities e.g., a tutor group, a class, a curriculum, etc. There is no restriction on how the Group and sub-group structures can be used with respect to containing other groups, persons, etc.
- Group Membership. The membership structure is used to define the members of a Group. A member can be a Person or another Group. A Group or Person can be a member of any number of groups.
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| An Enterprise XML instance is designed to contain any number of Person, Group and Membership structures but the order in which these can occur are limited to all of the Person objects, followed by all of the Group objects followed by all of the Membership objects. |
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