ASN REST based Web Services now in Beta!
Read about how to use the new ASN REST based web services that are now in Beta. Get listings of jurisdictions and subjects while filtering ASN documents using various parameters. You can also find this...
View ArticleASN Faceted Search
You can now browse the ASN using our RDF store's faceted search interface. You can initiate a search by text, property label or URI. Here's how to begin:Start by going to:...
View ArticleASN Manifest Sample Application for Developers
Did you know that all ASN manifest files work out-of-the-box with Sencha's EXT JS library including: tree panels, checkbox trees and drag/drop trees? Well, they do! We use the Open Source version of...
View ArticleASN Java Swing Control for Developers
Jeff Kahn has contributed a Java Swing control that can be used as a basis for picking ASN standards for content alignment. This code was showcased at the IMS Quarterly Meeting in Redmond, WA. The ASN...
View ArticleASN Data at Learning Registry Launch - SETDA 2011 Leadership Summit
ASN data was in the spotlight this week with the launch of the Learning Registry. The Learning Registry is a joint effort of the Department of Education and the Department of Defense, with support of...
View ArticleTheGateway.Org, ASN and Yahoo YUI
The launch of the new Gateway to 21st Century Skills website uses ASN standards data to help teachers discover resources that have been correlated to various standards, including the Common Core. The...
View ArticleASN RDF/JSON Updated
We fixed a bug in the ASN RDF/JSON where invalid JSON was produced if a literal value ended with a quotation mark ("). Example of previous bug: {"value":"Ends with a quote/}now correctly generates...
View ArticleSPARQL by Example
Just thought we'd share some useful SPARQL queries that we use from time to time.Find out if an ASN URI (http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/S102511A) comes from a Published Standards Document: ASK...
View ArticleStandards Browser with Aligned Resources
Navigation North, a full production code development and programming studio that specializes in comprehensive portal development, released a set of Node.js applications that can be used to view...
View ArticleGrant for the Achievement Standards Network
JES & Co. is excited to announce that they have received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to sustain and continue development of the Achievement Standards Network (ASN) and to...
View ArticleStay current with ASN data
An easy way to stay up to date with the ASN is to use our SPARQL endpoint and query for newly added standards documents. For example, to find the last 25 documents added to the ASN use this query:...
View ArticleWhat does ASN look like?
Ever wonder what the ASN:US dataset looks like as a whole? Well, we did. Using the ASN SPARQL Endpoint as the source, we've created a live look into the dataset by Jurisdiction and the number of...
View ArticleList ID and Alternative Statement Notation
We have added two new properties to the ASN schema, List ID and Alternative Statement Notation.List ID stores the list identifier transcribed exactly as found in the source competency framework--e.g.,...
View Article5 Million Triples
Happy to announce that the ASN RDF Quad-Store now contains over 5 million triples (5,519,769 as of our last count). We are storing over 400,000 ASN Statements and 1,100+ ASN Standard Documents. We...
View ArticleContent Correlation
EdGate Correlations Service and JES & Co. announced today that they are partnering to offer correlation services to JES & Co.'s Achievement Standards Network (ASN) subscribers. Many of JES...
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Introducing Semantic Tagging
The ASN is built on Linked Data principles i.e. using the Web to connect related data not previously linked. So naturally, we wanted to start connecting ASN learning outcomes to other datasets. We are...
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New Web Service - ASN Search
We are proud to release ASN Search - a high throughput, low latency search API powered by the ASN open source dataset. This new web service enables free-text and faceted search with the ability to...
View ArticleCross-Origin Resource Sharing Enabled for ASN Files
We have enabled Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for all our ASN files (manifest and full RDF flavors). This allows web browsers to make requests that would otherwise be forbidden due to the same...
View ArticleExt JS 4.0 Checkbox Tree Sample Code
Here is a drop-in replacement JavaScript file for the Ext JS 4.0 Checkbox tree demo that uses our new ASN CORS enabled files* to make cross-domain requests inside of an application.You can view a...
View ArticleNew ASN Concept Resolver
We have added a new Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) resolver to all our schemes. This makes it easier to browse and navigate through our various vocabularies like Education Level or...
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