TPDM Developer Resources

This section provides links to documentation covering the concepts and techniques necessary for a technical professional to understand and successfully implement the Ed-Fi ODS / API with TPDM. The Ed-Fi ODS / API with TPDM is an Ed-Fi ODS / API that has been extended to include the TPDM data entities and elements. 

Audience

The links below are for current and prospective ODS / API with TPDM implementers. Implementers are generally technical professionals who work with educational database systems, including database administrators and software developers.

Links

• What's new with TPDM. Updates in the latest TPDM release.
• TPDM UML Diagram. UML Entity-Relationship Diagram for TPDM Entities.
• Descriptor Workbook A spreadsheet listing all Core + TPDM descriptors
• Ed-Fi Data Model with TPDM Data Handbook. Searchable, filterable TPDM enhanced version of the Ed-Fi Data Handbook.
• MappingEdu: TPDM-Community v1.1. An online data mapping tool containing data mappings between the Teacher Prep Data Model and other systems and specifications.
• Source code repositories on GitHub:
  • Ed-Fi-TPDM-Community-Model. Contains MetaEd source for TPDM.
  • Ed-Fi-TPDM-Community-Artifacts. Contains sample data, descriptors and bulk interchange files.
  • Ed-Fi ODS & Ed-Fi ODS-Implementation. Repositories for the ODS / API.
• TPDM Community Populated Template: A populated template for the ODS / API with TPDM data.
• TPDM Community Minimal Template: A minimal template with TPDM (descriptors only).
• TPDM Tracker / JIRA ticketing. The Ed-Fi Alliance issue tracking system where you can go to submit an issue or request for the teacher prep model.

• Ed-Fi ODS / API Suite 3 Version 5.3. Technical documentation for the core Ed-Fi ODS / API, of which the ODS / API with TPDM is an extension.

  • API Client Developers' Guide. How-to information for developers of Ed-Fi ODS / API client systems. The essentials covered in this documentation apply to the ODS / API with TPDM.

  • Platform Developers' Guide. Essential background and how-to information for Ed-Fi ODS / API platform hosts. Most information is applicable to the ODS / API with TPDM.