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The idea for project glue came out of the Course Exchange project.  The key requirement of Course Exchange is that a student at one district/college be allowed to enroll in a class offered at another district/college from a single use interface user interface, the Course Exchange application. 

Each district/college uses different Student Information Systems, Student Directories and Master Data sets to support their own student population. Project Glue was born out of the necessity for colleges to share course and student information from disparate systems using a common set of API interfaces, . "College Adaptors" are SIS and/or college specific implementations of the standard API interfaces.

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Colleges that have implemented custom SIS will need to develop custom College Adaptors.

Master Data

As previously mentioned, each college SIS requires a source of Master data data within the SIS or an auxiliary college system.

Master Data can be described as the key business information that supports the transactions.
Master Data describes the customers, products, parts, employees, materials, suppliers, sites, etc involved in the transactions. It is commonly referred to
as Places (locations, geography, sites, etc.), Parties (persons, customers, suppliers, employees, etc.) and Things (products, items, material, vehicles, etc.).

Master data in the context of Course Exchange.

The following diagram is the DB schema for course exchange.

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