In 2013, the http://middleware.internet2.edu and http://security.internet2.edu servers, which held work by numerous Internet2 and InCommon working groups concerning middleware and security issues, were decommissioned as part of an upgrade of Internet2's web content management infrastructure. While some documents were identified for preservation as part of the upgrade, many were discovered to have been an important part of Internet2's history only after the old servers were decommissioned. As a result, David Walker worked under contract to Internet2 to "rescue" that history and place it in the Trust and Identity Document Repository. This work occurred between 2015 and 2017.
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The agenda, papers, presentations, etc. from the ten IDTrust and PKI R&D Workshops are stored in the repository as large combined PDF files, one per workshop. These combined PDF files were created from the individual materials linked from the middleware server for each year. Materials that were not already PDF files were converted using LibreOffice, and then all materials were concatenated in their original order using the Linux pdfunite utility. The text files were created with the pdftotext utility using the -layout option.
Adding to the Collection
If you know of other legacy documents that should be included in this collection (including individual materials from the IDTrust workshops), please contact David Walker <dwalker@internet2.edu>.
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