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a central metadata repository is a big project that folks in uwit have been talking about. we’ll look for some smaller bits that we could do within the web services to provide some value in the meantime
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A number of examples of this sort of lookup can be found in the Registrar's "code manual": https://depts.washington.edu/reptreq/codemanual.htm
Specifically, suppose a developer needed to know what college was represented by letter C? A webservice that takes code and returns a description ("College of Arts & Sciences" in this case) would be most helpful. More examples:
* Class standing: "8" means "Graduate", "5" is a fifth-year senior, etc.
* Veteran status: "0" is non-vet, "1" is a WWII vet, etc.
* Valid majors: "CM" means "Construction Management" (but also could return an array with dept. code [0052], active dates, and more)
* Foreign language codes: "7" is Russian
The list goes on. Some lookups are more complex, like majors, but most are simple key=value pairs and should be easy to look up.
The ability to go the other direction would be helpful, too. For example, to take the input "Construction management" and get back the major code "CM;" "cum laude" for degree honor code and get back "3;" etc.
I can think of many applications that could benefit from this, especially advising apps. The data is all public, too, so that's one less hurdle to jump.