Directory of Directories for Higher Education (DoDHE)

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Directory of Directories for Higher Education

(DoDHE)

DoDHE, a project of MACE, is investigating technology to support inter-institutional directory searching. This project is an application of the eduPerson object class, as well as the LDAP Recipe and the good practices presented by the Internet2 Middleware Initiative, MACE, and the MACE-Dir, MACE-Shibboleth and HEPKI working groups. Sun Microsystems is a key business partner in this project by contribution of hardware and software for the development and provision of the service. Many thanks to Dinesh Bahal, John Fowler and Kim Jones for their support of this project.

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Presentations

Status and Architecture of DoDHE (January, 2001) (HTML) (PPT)
Initial project presentation at the Fall 2000 Internet2 Member Meeting (HTML) (PPT)

Goals

Major project goals are:

To investigate and develop a service for directory searching, otherwise referred to as a "Web of People".
To employ the use of other MACE-related activities and infrastructures where appropriate:

the Internet2 Middleware Initiative and its work regarding the understanding and definitions of institutional identifiers, authentication schemes and registries of people data.
the eduPerson object class definition for inter-institutional resource sharing and common data descriptions.
the LDAP Recipe to help define and develop thoughts and methodologies toward the more uniform configuration and deployment of institutional directory services.

To allow each institution complete control over the data and the privacy issues concerning that institution. This service shall not offer any barriers to institutional policy and privacy needs.
To document thoughts, perspectives, progress, methodologies, failures, discoveries, etc... of this project in the hopes of better explaining the happenings. We also hope that by doing so we may assist others in their thought processes regarding the deployment of institutional, state, national or consortial directory services.
To work with appropriate international experts to foster interoperability and alignment with other similar initiatives.
To hopefully make such a service real for the worldwide academic community and possibly influence how such services would be deployed in the commercial sector.