Documentation


Registry basics for state decision makers:

• Building a network of resource-sharing states: An overview of the Learning Registry for state decision makers and strategists
  

Registry basics for developers:

• Learning Registry "20 minute" jump start
• Learning Registry Quick Guide for Developers 
• Technical Specification
  

Basics for sharing resource social metadata (e.g. standards alignment data):

• Paradata in 20 minutes or less
• Modeling Paradata and Assertions as Activities (contains detailed examples)

Video Presentations

• 5 min introduction to the Learning Registry
  
• Learning Registry (U.S. Dept. of Education)
  
• Learning Registry launch @ SETDA 
  
• Paradata video demo
  

Source Code and Examples

• Source code and developer wiki
  
• Your team might find it most instructive to walk through canonical examples (We recommend using a browser plugin like JSONView when you do this). On that page, you will also find a non-core service called Slice that our users have found useful.

Web Resources

• Learning Registry website
• More documentation and information
• Visual Browser lets you browse the Registry content real time.
  

Mailing Lists

• Developer mailing list: We encourage developers to sign up for the developer mailing list. You can reach LR developers using this list and post your technical questions for quick response. learningreg-dev@googlegroups.com
• Collaborator mailing list: We have good discussions going on in the collaborator mailing list about the Registry and its use: learning-registry-collaborate@googlegroups.com
  

Open Discussion Calls

• We have weekly developer calls which are open to the public, which your developers are most welcome to attend. Bring your questions!
  

• We also periodically hold open design calls to discuss Learning Registry design issues. These are announced on-list and are usually held: