Current Activities in Middleware Drinking the Kool-Aid _______________________________________________________________
Topics Foundations: Projects Interactions Application requirements - digital libraries, Grids, IMS, Portals... MACE (Middleware Architecture Committee for Education) and Partners Early Harvest best practices Early Adopters - deployment processes Projects eduPerson - a directory objectclass for the community Shibboleth - interrealm authentication and basic authorization the Directory of Directories and LDAP Recipe PKI - technology, policy, research Interactions Medical middleware International Efforts K-12
Activities Early Harvest / Early Adopters -Renee Frost (Michigan) Mace - RL “Bob” Morgan (Washington) LDAP Recipe - Michael Gettes (Georgetown) EduPerson - Keith Hazelton (Wisconsin) Directory of Directories - Michael Gettes (Georgetown) Metadirectories - Michael and Keith Shibboleth - Steven Carmody (Brown) HEPKI-TAG - Jim Jokl (Virginia) HEPKI-PAG - Ken Klingenstein (Colorado) HEBCA - Mark Luker (EDUCAUSE) Medical Middleware - Rob Carter (Duke) Opportunities - video, the GRID, K-12
More information Early Harvest / Early Adopters - http://middleware.internet2.edu/earlyadopters/ Mace - middleware.internet2.edu LDAP Recipe - http://www.georgetown.edu/giia/internet2/ldap-recipe/ Eduperson - www.educause.edu/eduperson Directory of Directories - middleware.internet2.edu/dodhe Shibboleth - middleware.internet2.edu/shibboleth HEPKI-TAG - www.educause.edu/hepki HEPKI-PAG - www.educause.edu/hepki Medical Middleware - web site to follow Opportunities - video, the GRID, K-12
Partnerships EDUCAUSE CREN Grids Campuses Higher Ed Professional associations - AACRAO, NACUA, CUMREC, etc. Increasing international interactions
MACE (Middleware Architecture Committee for Education) Purpose - to provide advice, create experiments, foster standards, etc. on key technical issues for core middleware within higher ed Membership - Bob Morgan (UW) Chair, Steven Carmody (Brown), Michael Gettes (Georgetown), Keith Hazelton (Wisconsin), Paul Hill (MIT), Jim Jokl (Virginia), Mark Poepping (CMU), David Wasley (California), Von Welch (NCSA)
Early Harvest and Early Adopters early harvest in the barn… http://middleware.internet2.edu/best-practices.html early adopters aggressively doing deployments http://middleware.internet2.edu/earlyadopters MTU, UMBC, JHU http://www.colorado.edu/committees/DirectoryServices/
LDAP Recipe how to build and operate a directory in higher ed 1 Tsp. DIT planning 1 Tbsp Schema design 3 oz. configuration 1000 lbs of data http://www.georgetown.edu/giia/internet2/ldap-recipe/