On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:09:02PM +0200, Halvor Dahl wrote: > Hello everyone. > > SLX Debian Labs is starting a project for improving user > administration in Skolelinux/debian-edu in general and > wlus in particular. The background for the project is > mainly feedback from users. > > We had a meeting in Oslo on this subject with Andreas > Schuldei, Ragnar Wisløff, Knut, Vidar and myself present. > What follows is based on conclusions from that meeting. > <snip/> > > > 5. Data import > -------------- > Knut and Halvor had a meeting with Morten Dahl who is the project > manager for FEIDE. Based on his recommendations we decided that > we would use the XML interface developed by Uninett ABC for importing > data from School Administration Systems (SAS). Further clarifications > will be done together with Uninett ABC. > > Skolelinux will *not* use Cerebrum for anything. > > There are a number of different data formats for student data. Among > them are Microsoft Active Directory, Novell eDirectory and different > kinds of spreadsheets. In order to have a documented specification > we will use the same XML interface for transferring data from external > systems other than SAS. > > TODO: Andreas will do what is necessary to support a new unique > key in ldap for data import. In Norway this will be "personnummer", > but the format will need to be generic. > > TODO: Write a program for importing data from XML interface to > Skolelinux' import format to ldap which is a comma/colon separated > file. Person to do it will be assigned later. Please solve that problem in two stages * XML to LDIF conversion * LDIF import Cheers Geert Stappers
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