Ah the last day of CAMP, it was a half day and it was very busy with good topics. The main focus of this morning was a wrap up of CAMP in general. We reviewed a couple of projects during some lighting talks. One of interest to us was OpenRegistry. OpenRegistry is an open source Identity Management System (IDMS). It provide a place for data about all of the people in your identity system. In terms that we use in the IAM project it is a Central Person Registry. The presenter was Benn Oshrin from Rutgers. We (Renee Shuey and I) talked to Benn and a couple of other schools about the whole concept of a person registry last year. They along with a few other schools have gone off and done the design work for OpenRegistry. With any data store the most important part will be the data model. How will you be representing data about the individuals?
For a very long time now I have been involved in the Access Project, a.k.a CACTUS. CACTUS is close to being a person registry, but its not very central. When we started development of CACTUS, we spent a large time working on the data model. The only problem was, we tried to force fit the existing data that lived on the mainframe into a relational database. It came out somewhat OK in the end, but its definitely not a central person registry. The addition of things like billing for services really have nothing to do with the management of identity for example.
So wrapping this up, we the Central Person Registry team (Ed Hayes, Bob Walters and myself) are going to take a very detailed look at the work that is being done in the OpenRegistry space.
Was CAMP worth it? You bet it was. With our starting the IAM project yesterday, CAMP gave us some really good ideas and updates on some important projects.
For a very long time now I have been involved in the Access Project, a.k.a CACTUS. CACTUS is close to being a person registry, but its not very central. When we started development of CACTUS, we spent a large time working on the data model. The only problem was, we tried to force fit the existing data that lived on the mainframe into a relational database. It came out somewhat OK in the end, but its definitely not a central person registry. The addition of things like billing for services really have nothing to do with the management of identity for example.
So wrapping this up, we the Central Person Registry team (Ed Hayes, Bob Walters and myself) are going to take a very detailed look at the work that is being done in the OpenRegistry space.
Was CAMP worth it? You bet it was. With our starting the IAM project yesterday, CAMP gave us some really good ideas and updates on some important projects.
It looks like you got some great ideas about how to move forward from CAMP and Advanced CAMP . Unfortunately, except for about 3.5 hours in Philly in between CAMPs, I wasn't able to touch base with the Internet2/EDUCAUSE crew.
Good luck with your new assignment. The Emerging Technologies Team will be watching closely and available if you need us.