Welcome to the Systems Interoperability Framework (SIF) Association UK

There is increasing demand for schools, colleges and local authorities to enable secure, reliable sharing of data within, and between, institutions particularly as 14-19 and parental engagement initiatives gain momentum.

Frequently the applications available for primary and secondary schools, local authorities and colleges are either closed systems, or systems that allow customer access only through proprietary interfaces that need to be developed or purchased as an addition to existing systems.

SIF provides a platform-independent, supplier-neutral data standard which in turn enables true interoperability among data-driven applications within the education sector.  Schools and local authorities can maximise their investment by ensuring interoperability throughout their institutions and therefore reducing redundant data entry. 

´Write once, use many times´

Over the past four years, the SIF Association UK Community has been working to develop the SIF Implementation Specification UK.  This is a continuously developing standard, and end user are encouraged to help identify areas for future development.

Find out more!

To learn more about SIF, the following downloads are available:

1 - What is SIF and How SIF works  This is an introduction to the SIF Association and interoperability.

2 - Case Study: Norfolk County Council:  Implementing Single Sign-On for all Users

3 - Case Study:  Warwickshire County Council:  Streamlining Data Integration

4 - Key Benefits:  An overview of the many benefits of sharing your data using SIF

5 - SIF in the Cloud?:  providing a secure data exchange system that can be securely hosted in the cloud.

6 - Success Story:  Warwickshire County Council

 

 

A full list of current members can be found here.

SIF UK Product List: To review a list of SIF products currently available in the UK, please click here.

UK Specifications:  The SIF Implementation Specification (United Kingdom) 1.4 is now available here: SIF Implementation Specification (UK) 1.4.

To view the SIF Association 2012 calendar of events and meetings, please click here.

 

 

If you have any further queries about the SIF Association UK, it´s activities, or require any additional information, please click this link to email us directly.