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Directory Services Project Purpose of meeting : Discuss status of directory services for community of interest project. WITS paper follow-on: consensus on direction of focus. 1. Meeting purpose with agenda adjustments ( 5 min) 2. News: (10 min) SUN Academic Equipment Grant - October 22, 2001 delivery scheduled GTRI Project "PKI Planning for GTA" - pending final signatures Internet2 VidMid discussion: "thrashing" / taking time to define attributes Dublin Core ( http://dublincore.org ) 1995- now, 15 metadata elements I2 Middleware eduPerson ( http://www.internet2.edu/middleware ) 18 months, 6 elements ViDe & I2 Vidmid H323. identity & zone, Sept 2000 IETF draft expired. 3. Cool sites - Where we'd like to go? (Ref email of October 17, 2001) (15 min) http://www.pocketfullofmemories.com (See related http://www.rhizome.org/print.rhiz?2796 ) http://www.uia.org/dyna/mapexp.htm (Follow 2 nd link http://www.uia.org/dyna/vizexp.htm , then live examples link) 4. WITS paper follow-on (30 min) "This paper focuses on the following research problem: How can directory services be extended to support COIs by enabling individuals to provide flexible, complete descriptions of themselves that can be effectively accessed by individuals from different organizations (and organizational units)? "The ideal solution is indicated by the research question itself: (1) individuals are able to describe themselves flexibly and reasonably completely, and (2) other individuals are able to query these descriptions to discover people relevant to a particular project or interest." 5. Other discussion Next meeting : November 1 or 8 (both are a Thursday) (2 or 3 weeks?) |
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