The technical application-programming-interface (API)-focused extension of the Architectural Options Working Document is a living document, a resource for researching and developing high-level architectural options for standards-based data collection and exchange of jobs and employment data (JEDx).
Feedback from multiple stakeholders informed this design, which is intended to support JEDx pilot programs while also serving the long-term JEDx vision. The goal of this API is to be a transport layer for the JDX+ standard data definitions and model maintained by the HR Open Standards Consortium (HR Open Standards) and proposed JEDx updates to those standards. The specification also relies on work done on The Open Application Group Inc.’s (OAGi’s) Representational State Transfer or Representational Entity State Transfer (RESTful) Web API Design Version 2.03 and uses the Standardized Infrastructure open standards supported by several standards bodies, including the Postsecondary Education Standards Council (PESC), Access For Learning (A4L), Medbiquitous, and HR Open Standards Consortium.
