ASN News

Grant for the Achievement Standards Network

August 20, 2012 by jesandco

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 expand the ASN's services. The ASN provides access to machine-readable representations of learning objectives published by education agencies and organizations.

Continue to the full press release.

Standards Browser with Aligned Resources

July 28, 2012 by jesandco

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 Learning Registry and ASN standards data stored in CouchDB.

You can see the app in action: http://nodejs.e-cdl.org/browser
with some Common Core standards with linked resources: http://goo.gl/Q37V6.

The code has been released under the Apache 2.0 license and can be forked and contributed to on github: https://github.com/navnorth/LRNodeJS.

If you're interested in contributing to it or have ideas for other collaborations, please contact Joe Hobson ( joehobson@gmail.com).

SPARQL by Example

March 30, 2012 by jesandco

Just thought we'd share some useful SPARQL queries that we use from time to time.

1. Find out if an ASN URI (http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/S102511A) comes from a Published Standards Document:
   
   ASK
   {
   <http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/S102511A> dcterms:isPartOf ?standardsDocument.
   ?standardsDocument asn:publicationStatus <http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNPublicationStatus/Published>.
   }
   
   SPARQL response in HTML: http://tinyurl.com/7fpq4hc
   
   
2. Return to me just the state codes and corresponding ASN URI's for a particular ASN Standards Document (http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/D2362333):
   
   SELECT DISTINCT ?statementNotation ?asnURI WHERE
   {
   ?asnURI dcterms:isPartOf <http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/D2362333>.
   ?asnURI asn:statementNotation ?statementNotation.
   }
   
   SPARQL response in HTML: http://tinyurl.com/6qrcpnj
   
   
3. Give me the preferred labels and the corresponding ASN URI's for the ASN Education Level and Topic Vocabularies:
   
   SELECT DISTINCT ?prefLabel ?URI
   FROM <http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/>
   FROM <http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNTopic/>
   WHERE
   {
   ?prefLabel skos:prefLabel ?URI.
   }
   
   SPARQL response in HTML: http://tinyurl.com/6voxx2b
   
   
4. Give me the ASN URI that has this description, "1. Count to 100 by ones and by tens.":
   
   SELECT ?asnUri WHERE
   {
   ?asnUri dcterms:description ?description.
   ?description bif:contains "'1. Count to 100 by ones and by tens.'".
   }
   
   SPARQL response in HTML: http://tinyurl.com/7l8nva6
   
   

For more information about the ASN SPARQL endpoint see our documentation.

ASN RDF/JSON Updated

March 16, 2012 by jesandco

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 as:

{"value":"Ends with a quote/""}.

Also, URI values in the RDF/JSON are no longer string escaped. Previously looked like:

{ "value" : "http:\/\/purl.org\/ASN\/schema\/core\/StandardDocument", "type" : "uri" }

now look like:

{ "value" : "http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument", "type" : "uri" }

TheGateway.Org, ASN and Yahoo YUI

March 12, 2012 by jesandco

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 Gateway uses Yahoo's YUI framework to display ASN standards. Gateway users can browse the standards in a collapisble tree view and find resources that have been correlated to a specific standard. See a screenshot of the interface here.

You can try it out (with a free Gateway account) by going to: http://www.thegateway.org/search-by-standard.