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Getting Started - Introduction
Introduction
This documentation contains the basics of getting started with the Ed-Fi Data Standard. It briefly describes the various components of the Ed-Fi Data Standard, and provides details about accessing and using the standard.
Audience
This documentation is for technical professionals who work with educational data, including business analysts, system administrators, and software developers.
Prerequisites
To gain the most benefit from this information, the reader should already be familiar with the following knowledge areas:
- Ed-Fi technology, see www.ed-fi.org
- Extensible Markup Language (XML), see www.w3.org/XML
- XML Schema (XSD), see www.w3.org/standards/xml/schema
- Data Modeling, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_modeling
- Unified Modeling Language (UML) as applied to conceptual Data Modeling, see www.uml.org