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Thursday, June 28, 2007Collaborative Applications: Scope, Terminology, and Central Questions*
- RL "Bob" Morgan
Is there is a natural tension between R&E and vendors developing applications in this space? They are trying to deliver complete packages, easily installed and managed and supported - their primary goal is collaboration *within* the organization. When you try to collaborate *between* organizations they may be looking at protocols like OpenID, unless they hear about SAML-based approaches such as Shibboleth from their customers. Thus sometimes there is a natural tension between central IT and vendors about their approach. The commercial applications tend to need to be adapted/integrated to work in our environments.
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Collaborative Applications, Suites, and Tools*
- Duffy Gillman, Computing Manager, Principal, The University of Arizona
- Chad J. Kainz, Senior Director, Academic Technologies, University of Chicago
- John F. Walsh, Associate Vice President, Enterprise Software, Indiana University
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Collaborative Applications, Suites, and Tools*
- Chad La Joie, Development Manager, Georgetown University
- James W. Laney, Software Developer, Catalyst Research & Development, Learning and Scholarly Tech, University of Washington
- Caleb Racey, Webteam ISS, Newcastle University
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Application Integration Frameworks*
- Tod Jackson, Senior Technology Architect, OpenEAI Software Foundation
- Stephen Wheat*, Enterprise Architect for Administrative IT and Co-Founder OpenEAI Project, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign*
Q: How do you handle transactions that involve multiple destinations?
A: When a module processes a request/message, and if it contains a request that it cannot fulfill, it can then republish it for consumption by other modules.
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Campus Infrastructure and Collaborative Application Integration*
- Steven T. Carmody, IT Architect, Brown University
- Michael R. Gettes, Manager, Applied Middleware, Internet2
- Jim DeRoest, Research Channel
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The Current Landscape Panel: Requirements, Capabilities, and Opportunities
Panel, Michael Gettes, Internet2 (Moderator)*
- Chad La Joie, Georgetown
- Jim DeRoest, ResearchChannel
- Duffy Gillman, U. Arizona
- Jim Laney, U. Washington
- Steve Wheat, UIUC
- Bob Jackson, U. Indiana
- Richard Shaw, Cal State
- Chad Kainz, U. Chicago
- Steve Carmody, Brown
- RL "Bob" Morgan, U. Washington
- Caleb Racey, Newcastle University
Q: What other kinds of capabilities, beyond Identity and Access Management, could/should be considered for future development of the COManage application under development at Internet2 (and demo'd by its developer/integrator, Michael Gettes)?
A: Workflow is of interest to many, note that Mellon and NSF are likely going to jointly sponsor a workshop on this topic in October 2007
Observations: *
- A portal or some sort of container to house/manage the assembled applications would seem to be a likely direction
- OKI Core service APIs would seem to be useful here
- OSIDs, repository for shared objects
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Friday, June 29, 2007
Campus Infrastructure and Developers Perspective*
- Wilson D'Souza, Director - Infrastructure SW & Architecture, MIT
I am not interested in reinventing alternatives to good options for various collaboration tools (e.g. wikis, blogs, Subversion, JIRA, etc.) already available, but rather in aggregating them into a coherent interface that takes advantage of their respective strengths and presents a usable suite to users. In a sense this can be viewed as a large mashup.
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A Focus on Policy and Process Issues*
- Margaret Harrington, Director Organization Improvement Services, University of Southern California
- George Mathew, Chief Technology Architect, Fox Chase Cancer Center
- David H. Walker, Director of Advanced Technology, University of California Office of the President
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Conclusions and Possible Directions*
- Thomas J. Barton, Senior Director for Integration, University of Chicago
- R.L. "Bob" Morgan, Senior Technology Architect, University of Washingto
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