Tag: curriculum-infrastructure
2 items with this tag.
Higher Education Reference Model (HERM)
A standardised ontology providing business, data, and application architectures for the higher education sector — and a practical starting point for making institutional knowledge machine-readable.
Beyond document management: Graph infrastructure for professional education curricula
Professional curricula are extensively documented but not systematically queryable, creating artificial information scarcity that makes compliance reporting and quality assurance labour-intensive. This essay proposes a three-layer architecture — graph databases as the source of truth for curriculum structure, vector databases for semantic content retrieval, and a Model Context Protocol layer for stakeholder access — that transforms documentation into operational infrastructure. The architecture incorporates temporal versioning for longitudinal evidence, role-based access controls for multi-stakeholder environments, and internal quality audit against institutional policy alongside external regulatory compliance, enabling verification in hours rather than weeks.