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

2. I2 Spring 2002 Member Meeting Middleware: Directories2 Metadirectories: Practices in Higher Education RPR, May 2002 Author: Richard Jones, University of Colorado (retired) and MACE-Dir group participants Edited by Brendan Bellina, University of Notre Dame

3. I2 Spring 2002 Member Meeting Middleware: Directories3 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

4. I2 Spring 2002 Member Meeting Middleware: Directories4 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

5. I2 Spring 2002 Member Meeting Middleware: Directories5 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

6. I2 Spring 2002 Member Meeting Middleware: Directories6 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

7. I2 Spring 2002 Member Meeting Middleware: Directories7 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

8. I2 Spring 2002 Member Meeting Middleware: Directories8 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

9. I2 Spring 2002 Member Meeting Middleware: Directories9 Links Internet 2 - MACE-Dir Metadirectories page RPR 1.0 Metadirectories Practices document Author: bbellina@nd.edu