The Per-Entity Metadata Working Group developed criteria and a roadmap for the deployment of per-entity metadata distribution within InCommon. Membership was open to all interested parties. See Per-Entity Metadata Working Group Charter for a complete description.
Working Group Chair: Scott Koranda
Working Group Flywheel: David Walker
Email list: per-entity@incommon.org.
Email list archives: https://lists.incommon.org/sympa/arc/per-entity
Call Schedule: The calls for this working group were 10:00 AM (America/New York) weekly on Wednesdays.
Final Report
The final report produced by the working group is available here. It was accepted by the InCommon TAC on January 5, 2017, and by the InCommon Steering Committee on January 9, 2017.
Community Review
A community consultation of the working group's report was conducted between November 21, 2016 and December 5, 2016. The results of that consultation are available in Consultation for the Per-Entity Metadata Working Group Final Report.
Agenda/Notes
The agenda and notes for each call were live-scribed using the free (as in beer) and open source EtherPad service hosted by Mozilla at https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/. You will find the link for each call's agenda/notes at this wiki. When each call finishes the notes will be exported in both EtherPad and HTML formats and attached to this wiki for later reference.
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-12-07
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-10-19
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-10-12
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-10-05
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-09-21
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-09-14
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-09-07
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-08-31
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-08-24
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-08-17
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-08-10
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-08-03
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-07-27
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-07-20
- Agenda and Notes - 2016-07-13
Draft Working Documents
- Axes of Discussion
- MDQ Client Software
- MDQ Server Software
- Risks and Opportunities
- Final Report of the Per-Entity Metadata Working Group
- Splitting the Aggregate: An Ops Perspective
Related Resources
- Metadata Distribution Working Group
- GitHub source: Metadata Query Protocol
- Wiki summary: Metadata Query Protocol
- InCommon Working Groups Home
- Ian Young slides on MDQ and mdq-server (see attachment to that page)
- Tom Scavo slides on InCommon Operations MDQ
- AWS HSM Usage Overview for MDQ
- MDQ Infrastructure (diagram)
- Discussion Summary 2016-08-01
- Production of Aggregate Metadata by InCommon Operations (diagram)
- InCommon Working Groups Home