Posts by Andrew Downes

Deep Dive: The Agent Profile API

// Agents, Personas and People So far in this Deep Dive series into the Document API we’ve looked at the State API and Activity Profile API. The Agent Profile API is similar to the Activity Profile API, but instead of Documents relating to Activities, it’s…

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Adopter Spotlight – RISC

Our January webinar reviewing how eight companies are using xAPI has had a lot of attention. In this blog series, we refresh your memory of what each company is up to. I love RISC’s PDF annotator as an example of the benefits of following a…

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Deep Dive: The State and Activity Profile APIs

For storing (and sharing) state! Last time we dived into the Document APIs as a whole. This time we dive deeper into the most well known and commonly used of the Document APIs, the State API. As there’s a lot of similarity between the State…

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Adopter Spotlight – Knowledge Guru

Our January webinar reviewing how eight companies are using xAPI has had a lot of attention. In this blog series, we refresh your memory of what each company is up to. Knowledge Guru is a great example of an innovative platform that didn’t fit within…

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Deep Dive: The Document APIs Overview

What are the Document APIs and why should you care? xAPI’s Statements get a lot of attention and rightly so. Statements are the primary way of tracking the learner and set out a standard data structure for reporting tools to read. But Statements are not…

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Activity Type – the forgotten IRI

The Activity Type property is optional, but shouldn’t be forgotten. One of the wonderful things about my job as a xAPI Evangelist working with adopters is that I get to see and comment on how people are using xAPI, and in particular, what data they’re…

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Looking Back, Looking Forward

Last January I made some predictions for the xAPI world in 2014 and did surprisingly well. In this post I review my 2014 predictions and make some fresh ones for 2015. At the start of 2014 I predicted a year with little change to the…

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Calling Adopters!

Since joining Rustici Software at the start of November, I’ve been working my way through the list of adopters on tincanapi.com: making contact, updating and adding entries and helping people to do xAPI better. I’m now getting to the end of that list, so this…

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Getting the Details Right: ISO 8601 Timestamps

A word of caution to PHP developers and others about xAPI timestamps. My involvement in xAPI or Experience API specification has led me to explore a number of finer technical details that I never imagined existed. The specification is pedantically precise in places, and it…

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News to Me: Statement Forwarding

Since joining Rustici Software at the start of November 2014, I’ve been discovering some interesting products and features within Rustici Software and outside. This "News to Me" series of blogs highlights some of these surprises! One of the key benefits of xAPI is that data…

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