Anyone working with Common Core Standards? Need structured data.

To the best of my knowledge they have resisted provided the common core standards in anything that resembles a usable format.

We have considered throwing some time into the data entry required to make them accessible in csv format, but we haven't done it yet.

I expressed my thoughts on this in as succinct a manner as possible here :)

Cheers,

Bill

A simple schema with ids from Common Core would allow developers to work from the same data structure. Screen scraping has each set of developers setting up their own data structure (and updating it as common core changes).

From the licensing (http://www.corestandards.org/commercial-license and http://www.corestandards.org/terms-of-use) it seems that publishing a schema and rdf rich xml-ified version of the document for non commercial use would be permitted and might pre-empt many splintered data structures for this document to evolve. I'm waiting to hear back from common core about their machine readable version before doing so. My state has abopted them, but not implemented them or come up with a timeline for doing so. But I have to offer cost estimates on software migrations.

The html could be screen scraped fairly easily, but there are some problems

1. the urls don't match the domain ids:

http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/mathematics/grade-5/operation...
maps to the domain 5.NF which would be something like:
http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/mathematics/grade-5/NF

1. The domain ids are absent from the html version of the standards.

2. the clusters don't have ids and its not clear if a cluster title has the same identity across grades.

3. the urls are just inconsistent making screen scraping a pain.

- /the-standards/mathematics/hs-number-and-quantity/quantities/
- /the-standards/mathematics/grade-8/geometry/
- /the-standards/mathematics/high-school-geometry/congruence/

Has there been any movement on this? Or, alternatively, are there other noteworthy projects, working on the same problem? LearnBoost is offering an XML-ified version (http://www.learnboost.com/common-core/) but XML is foreign enough to me that I wouldn't be able to verify whether they've manged to avoid the scraping issues John mentions.

The data John mentions above is available now in Excel spreadsheet form. I would like to get some feedback from interested consumers of the data, before making it public. Please contact me directly if you would like the spreadsheet, using the "Contact" tab on my user link.

FYI, I have submitted the "ccssi" module as an official project. I'm new to the CVS submission process so this will probably take a while, and doubtless there will be complaints about the quality of the code as I'm also still adapting to the Drupal coding standards. However, if anyone would like to play with the existing module, in what I would call "early alpha" stage, contact me and I'll ship you a tarball.

You could also try using data from the Achievement Standard Network which offers standards data as RDF/XML. See the Common Core standards section. Best of all you get web resolvable URI's and the data is free to use under a Creative Commons attribution license.

An update to aaustin's reference, which leads to a 404 page. It appears CommonCore.org changed the URL - http://www.corestandards.org/common-core-state-standards-official-identi...

Adding to an old thread, but ran into it via a Google web search, in case its helpful, the canonical identifiers is available from the Common Core State Standards web site:

http://corestandards.org/assets/E0607_ccss_identifiers.csv