Goals of the Early Adopters Project

Primary Goals

• facilitate campus deployments of core middleware technologies
• identify reasonable technical and policy approaches, and design issues and factors, that influence institutional selection of a particular approach
• enrich the technical contents of Early Harvest
• inform the larger community — for example, higher education more generally, NIH, and NSF — of requirements for middleware deployment and interoperability

Secondary Goals

• explore medical middleware issues
  • generic — how is this expressed in the core deployment?
  • specific — what medical data structures need integration into campus environments?
• outreach to encourage other institutions
• research options for authorization services
• evaluate new tools and technologies