PESC APPROVED STANDARDS​​

PESC APPROVED STANDARDS are available openly and free of charge for education and workforce, health and medical, military and government, and all teaching and learning communities - the cornerstone principle of PESC, PESC's Mission and PESC's Membership.

PESC APPROVED STANDARDS are Workgroup developed, proposed, approved, ratified and maintained through an open, transparent, rigorous, community-based, collaborative process, including a public notification when development initiates and a formal 30-day public comment period before approval, all governed by PESC Members.  

PESC APPROVED STANDARDS are platform and application neutral; used, implemented, adopted and integrated in systems, networks, applications, products & services; are hub and spoke and web services friendly; support a transaction or business process;​ and, can be implemented or used one independently from another.​​​​​

One PESC APPROVED STANDARD (e.g. the College Transcript Standsrd) is made available in several different technologies (e.g. EDI, JSON, PDF, XML), providing more technical choice for users. The EDI, JSON, PDF and XML data modeling guidelines and specifications, definitions and business processes are aligned and governed under PESC's Standards Development Forum for Education.  This alignment instills trust between different technologies, enables reliable data mapping across different technologies, and ensures data quality and integrity across different technologies.​​

​For use of PESC APPROVED STANDARDS, 
the PESC Website and PESC Work Products 

in which you do not mention or

provide attribution to PESC:

use, access and downloading of 
PESC APPROVED STANDARDS 
are provided openly and free of charge.

You can also develop

derivative products and services from

PESC APPROVED STANDARDS 
and you are responsible for any use of 
PESC APPROVED STANDARDS you make.

FOR XML 

For XML, PESC APPROVED STANDARDS include:

• XML schema that outline data file design & record structure
  
• Implementation Guides that explain & describe adoption, integration & use
  
• Instance Documents that display examples based on sample data​ (This mandate is a recent requirement and may not be included in some.)
  

Dependent on when developed and released, each are based on specific versions of:

• Academic Record Sector
• Core Main Components
  
• PESC's XML Technical Specification​​
  

The Academic Record is an XML schema that contains a dictionary of element type definitions that can be used to construct and validate XML messages. The library contains element types that are specific to information about a student's academic experience and accomplishments.  

Core Main is also an XML schema that contains a dictionary of common element type definitions that can be used to construct and validate XML messages.

​The PESC XML Technical Specification outlines PESC XML Schema Structure, development methodology and design rules.

FOR EDI 

While PESC has adopted certain EDI standards as PESC APPROVED STANDARDS and hosts corresponding EDI Implementation Guides, users must obtain the EDI standards from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).  For more information, please see the Introduction & Overview of SPEEDE/ExPRESS.

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Use of PESC Intellectual Property (IP) 

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