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Middleware: Directories

Middleware: Directories. Metadirectories Related Work. Brendan Bellina, University of Notre Dame. Metadirectories: Practices in Higher Education RPR, May 2002. <http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/metadirectories/rpr-nmi-edit-mace_dir-metadirectories_practices-1.0.html>

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Middleware: Directories

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  1. Middleware: Directories Metadirectories Related Work Brendan Bellina, University of Notre Dame

  2. Metadirectories: Practices in Higher Education RPR, May 2002 • <http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/metadirectories/rpr-nmi-edit-mace_dir-metadirectories_practices-1.0.html> • Author: Richard Jones, University of Colorado (retired) • and MACE-Dir group participants • Edited by Brendan Bellina, University of Notre Dame Middleware: Directories

  3. Metadirectories: Practices in Higher Education RPR, May 2002 • Metadirectory Processes: • Join of information and identifiers from multiple provider systems to create a single person entry • Data providers • Data consumers Middleware: Directories

  4. Purpose of the Metadirectories Practices document • Describe a metadirectory architecture for higher education • Describe metadirectory infrastructure components and common issues • Recommendations to consider for enterprise directory infrastructure design Middleware: Directories

  5. Scope of the Metadirectories Practices document • Describe generic infrastructure model • Describe issues likely to be relevant to all institutions • Focus on people information and related issues • Most common starting point • Most information and experience to pull on Middleware: Directories

  6. Selected Contents • The Join and uniquely identifying individuals • Kinds of Provider Systems • HR, SAS, Donors, Patrons, etc. • Campus Portal • Operating system and configuration files • Enterprise Directory Middleware: Directories

  7. Selected Contents • Kinds of Consumer Systems • Authentication system • NOS • Microsoft Active Directory, Oracle Internet Directory • White Pages • Resource Provisioning systems • Services – email • Directory-enabled applications (examples) • CorporateTime • WebCT • BlackBoard • Oracle • others Middleware: Directories

  8. Potential for Future Work • Further enhancement of Practices doc • 500 foot Design Guide • Description of API style functions which are required to construct a metadirectories infrastructure • Metadirectories: Implementation Issues • Issues related to data extraction, transformation, load, and publish for typical data storage types • Relational databases • LDAP directories Middleware: Directories

  9. Links • Internet 2 - MACE-Dir Metadirectories page • <http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/metadirectories/> • RPR 1.0 Metadirectories Practices document • <http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/metadirectories/rpr-nmi-edit-mace_dir-metadirectories_practices-1.0.html> • Author: bbellina@nd.edu Middleware: Directories

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