The intended purpose of the Subject Tags metadata item is to facilitate searching for and classification of documents in the Trust and Identity repository. While the initial repository platform does not fully enable automation of this functionality, Subject Tags will be maintained in a manner that can be leveraged in the future at such a time that a platform with more support for searching and classification is in place.
In order to do this, we will adhere to the following principles:
- The classification of documents will be coordinated across the repository. For this reason, the "vocabulary" of classification names (i.e., Subject Tags) will be administered by the Repository Librarian. See Subject Tag Vocabulary for the current classifications, and Administering the Vocabulary for how new classifications are added.
- In order to facilitate migration to potential future repository platforms, the syntax of Subject Tags will be kept simple:
- Subject Tags will contain only lower-case characters.
- Subject Tags will contain no white space. When more than one word is required for a subject tag, the words will be concatenated with no spacing.
Subject Tag Vocabulary
The current subject tags are defined in the following table. In general, meanings of subject tags should be interpreted broadly; if a document addresses issues related to a subject tag, that tag should be added to the document.
| Subject Tag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| accessmanagement | The document addresses issues of access management, access control, authorization, etc. |
| assurance | The document addresses issues of the quality or trustworthiness of identity assertions. |
| cacti | The document is related to the Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI). |
| charter | The document is related to a charter for a Trust and Identity committee or working group. |
| ctab | The document is related to the Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB). |
| federation | The document is related to identity federation. |
| grouper | The document is related to the Grouper system. |
| incommon | The document is related to InCommon. |
| federationmetadata | The document is related to federation metadata. |
| middlewarerescue | The document was among those "rescued" from the old middleware.internet2.edu server and other legacy repositories. |
| policy | The document is related to policy issues. |
| service | The document is related to some service. |
| steward | The document is related to the Steward Program. |
| tier | The document is related to Trusted Identity in Education and Research (TIER). |
| trust | The document is related to issues of trust. |