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The main objective was the implementation of the XCRI CAP 1.1 against the university catalogue comprising undergraduate, postgraduate, FE and CPD components. The university has many disconnected databases, created and maintained by different business functions that contain course Information. The course catalogue was driven from the ASIS student record system and an xml course repository was created and accessed through web services and aggregators. Through this project, the University:

• was able to output all the course advertising data in an efficient manner to the internal and external collectors like the Hot courses ltd and UCAS.
• Reviewed the current processes, minimised the workload for the schools by providing high quality data sets.
• Reduced the duplication of data around the course by process re-engineering. Created a comprehensive course catalogue integrating the institutional MIS system, including SITS.

The project influenced the partner institutions through the WYLLN (West Yorkshire Life Long Learning network) and has worked with the non-partners to investigate different ways the XCRI –CAP can benefit in regards to the 14-19 area prospectus.

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