The Scholarship Program Information Data Exchange specification is operational in a few solutions, but the standard itself is in pre-release. This section outlines the changes in v1.0d, the latest draft of the specification.
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Overview
The information that follows describes changes in the latest version of Scholar Snapp.
The changes include:
Detail on each change follows.
Changes to the Data Model
This section describes changes to the data model, which defines the data payload representing a scholarship program.
Add Award Duration and Renewability Information (SSDS-96)
Many scholarship programs have important properties related to the award duration. For example, it’s useful to know whether a program’s award is for a single year, or can be used across multiple years. For those programs that only offer single-year awards, it’s useful to know whether an applicant may re-apply for a subsequent award.
Change Detail
For Scholarship Exchange v1.0d, we’ve added the following information to the model:
An award duration type. To indicate the time period over which the award may be used. Values include “One-Time” (indicating a single point in time), “Multiyear” (indicating that the award spans multiple years), and “Renewable” (meaning that the award is a one-time award, but applicants are explicitly allowed to re-apply for subsequent years).
An award duration. For multiyear programs, indicates the number of years across which the award may be used. For renewable programs, indicates the number of renewal opportunities.
The following JSON snippet shows an example for a 4-year scholarship.