Glossary

attribute delivery mechanism new

The process of sending attributes to be added or built in to an X509 certificate

CMP Admin

A person responsible for administration of the CMP itself (as opposed to access management to the CMP).

CO Registry

An identity registry of participants associated with a CO. The CO Registry is middleware that operates to support the CMP.

Collaboration Management Platform (CMP)

A unified collection of services and middleware that is intended to hide the complexities of inter-organizational collaboration, enabling Scientists, Researchers, Educators and any one else needing to work together to concentrate on their work instead of being frustrated by technological limitations.  Services may include messaging (email, calendaring and scheduling, and contacts), team collaboration (file synchronization, ideas and notes in a wiki, task management, full-text search), real-time collaboration and communication (e.g., presence, instant messaging, Web conferencing, application / desktop sharing, voice, audio and video conferencing), and Social Computing tools (e.g., blog, wiki, tagging, RSS, shared bookmarks).

Collaborative Organization (CO)

A Virtual Organization, but with additional capabilities allowing for collaborators to use their institutional identities and services. A CO provides the essential IT infrastructure supporting collaborations between people among separate institutions overcoming the traditional boundaries of Internet applications.

COllabmin

A person, usually a staff person or a research associate, who is responsible for access management to the CMP. Tasks may include adding people to email lists, granting them wiki access controls, removing permissions, etc.

COllaborator

A member of a collaboration who uses the tools of the CO but does not directly manage those tools.

COmanage module new

a part of a specific COmanage toolset, one that will be available for use but not necessarily implemented by the COmanage platform. For example, the CO Person Registry is a module of the COmanage Gears toolset.

COmanage platform new

a CMP based on the COmanage data model and the COmanage REST COnnector API but otherwise independent in its design and implementation

COmanage Service Instance new

A COmanage instance run externally to a CO. Currently in planning stages only.

Deprovisioning

removing access from an individual, either by deleting the account or changing their authorization information for a given service or application

Domesticated Application

An application that works well with enterprise infrastructure, typically by externalizing group management, authentication, and/or authorization.

Enrollment new

The process of inviting, adding to groups, establishing authorizations in the CO.

Federated onboarding new

The automatic enrollment of individuals in to a CMP as a result of a data feed from the participating institutions' central IdM systems. For example, a CMP with members from a dozen different schools may automatically enroll faculty from a specific discipline based on data being fed in to the CMP from these institutions.

Identity Information Discovery

The process of collecting identity information about a participant in a CO from the participant's home institution and/or by collecting self asserted data from the participant. This process follows Invitation or Self Registration.

Identity Provider

an authoritative source of attributes for an individual

Invitation

The process of inviting a new person to the CO by an existing participant.

Power COllaborator

A COllaborator who has been delegated some management privileges by a COllabmin.

Provisioning

providing access to an individual user, either by creating an account or changing their authorization information for a given service or application

Registry Admin

A person responsible for the administration of the CO Registry.

Role

A specific function which implies a level of access rights to a service or set of services

Self Registration

The process of a person becoming a new participant in a CO without being invited by an existing participant.

Virtual Organization (VO)

A VO is a group of individuals or institutions that is focused around a particular domain science and usually uses significant resources (computers, storage, networks, etc.) beyond collaboration tools. Often, these additional resources have substantial authorization requirements, stemming from federal guidelines, audit standards, etc.