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- Recommend exclusive use of a well-defined and commonly understood subset of the controlled vocabulary for eduPerson{Scoped}Affiliation; Initial draft proposal:
- "faculty",
- "student",
- "staff" (when distinguished from "faculty"),
- "member" (as "all faculty, students and staff plus other persons who are considered to be full members of the institutional community as regards access to resources and services"),
- "alum" and
- "affiliate" (defined to be anyone affiliated with the university who is NOT a "member" or "alum"
- NOTE: This does not depend on all parties agreeing to a single strict, detailed and precise definition of these named affiliations. To the degree that eduPerson{Scoped}Affiliation has proven useful, it has done so while allowing for reasonable variation in definitions across institutions.
- Acknowledge that many sites have created their own values for ePSA to suit their need for a local set of affiliation values.
- Adopt a live and let live attitude to the above practice of extending the value space for ePSA--PROVIDED THAT in federated and more generally inter-institutional scenarios, institutional use of eduPerson{Scoped}Affiliation does not violate the community-blessed profile that emerges from this work.