Open data

Name: Learning Map — the open Australian primary learning map dataset
Creator: Ape Labs

Everything behind Learning Map is downloadable, machine-readable and openly licensed. Build something with it.

Downloads

topics.json

1,590 skills: id, name, subject, domain, age range, description, evidence of mastery, assessment prompt, centrality.

Marble Skill Taxonomy · CC BY-SA 4.0 / ODbL 1.0 ↓ dependencies.json

3,221 prerequisite links: topicId, prerequisiteId, strength (hard/soft) and a written reason for every edge.

Marble Skill Taxonomy · CC BY-SA 4.0 / ODbL 1.0 ↓ acara-v9-f6-content-descriptions.json

All 614 Australian Curriculum v9 F–6 content descriptions: code, learning area, strand, year(s), full text.

Candidate skill → AC9 code alignments with confidence bands and scores (v0.1, machine-generated, unreviewed).

CC BY-SA 4.0 (derives from both sources) ↓ marble-nesa-k6-crosswalk.codes.json

Candidate skill → NSW outcome code alignments — codes, syllabuses and stages only. Outcome descriptions are omitted (© State of NSW).

codes-only derivation · v0.1 ↓ Marble Skill Taxonomy (source repo)

The upstream open taxonomy this map is built on, maintained by Marble.

github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy ↗ acara-v9-f6-json (source repo)

The machine-readable Australian Curriculum dataset — reproducible parser, provenance notes and updates.

github.com/curiousape-ai/acara-v9-f6-json ↗

Schemas at a glance

topics.json → {"topics": [{id, name, subject, domain, ageRangeStart, ageRangeEnd, description, evidence[], assessmentPrompt, centrality}]}

dependencies.json → {"dependencies": [{topicId, prerequisiteId, strength, reason}]}

Crosswalks → {meta, acara|nesa: {code: {…}}, map: {topicId: {topic, subject, ages, status, matches: [{code, confidence, score}]}}}. Statuses: mapped, no_f6_match/no_k6_match, beyond_f6/beyond_k6, general_capabilities.

Licences

Skill data: Marble Skill Taxonomy © Generative Spark, Inc., CC BY-SA 4.0 / ODbL 1.0. Curriculum text: © ACARA, CC BY 4.0. NSW outcome codes appear as reference labels only; official syllabus content is © State of NSW (NESA) and is not included in these files. Full details on the licensing page.

All alignments are candidate alignments — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).

How to cite this

Hunt, I. (2026). Learning Map: the open Australian primary learning map dataset (v0.1) [1,590 skills, 3,221 prerequisite links, candidate alignments to Australian Curriculum v9]. Ape Labs. https://learningmap.au/data/

Or in prose: “Learning Map (learningmap.au), an open map of 1,590 Australian primary-years skills by Ape Labs, built on the Marble Skill Taxonomy.”