I’ll be presenting on Monday, July 19th at AACRAO Tech 2010. If you going to be at AACRAO Tech, come to the session. I’ll share a link to my handouts with the email list.

Architecture and the Registrar’s Office (RO): A Strategic Alliance

Time: Monday 11:05 am – 12:15 pm
Location: Pershing West

Short Description: The domain of the registrar has expanded over the past few years. It has grown from student records and student relations to partnering with campus on broad suite initiatives. Enterprise Architects, IT Architects and Infrastructure Architects have worked with the RO on Identity Management issues but there is much more to gain from a deeper and wider partnership. In this session, we will define the practice of architecture, look at the strategic goals of the RO and see where the partnership can deliver the greatest value. UW-Madison’s will be a case study for the discussion.

Jim Phelps, Chair

Topic: Kuali on Campus, David Walker, UC-Davis

Presenters:

• David Walker,IT Architect, University of California, Davis
• Erik Westfall, Indiana University, Kuali Rice Project Manager and Lead Architect
• Curtis Bray, Middleware Architect, IET Application Development, UC Davis

Over the past few years, the Kuali Foundation has become a major force in the creation of community source administrative software for use in higher education. Work is in progress on a growing list of applications, including Kuali Financial System, Kuali Student, and Kuali Coeus (research administration). These applications are being designed to utilize a common middleware layer, Kuali Rice, which provides a service bus, workflow, access to identity management, notification, and presentation services. This session will provide a brief introduction to Kuali Rice, followed by a discussion of the issues surrounding the use of Rice as an enterprise middleware infrastructure, supporting applications beyond those developed by the Kuali Foundation.

University of California: Assessment of Kuali Rice for Single and Multiple Campus Applications

David Walker, University of California, Davis

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http://www.itana.org/2009/04/06/screen2screen-and-itana-meet-ups/
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Screen2Screen

For more information about ITANA see:
http://www.itana.org/about/

How to Join the Screen2Screen Session:

There are two portions of the Screen2Screen. You should join both the web collaboration space as well as the conference call.

For the web collaboration space, connect via web browser at this URL:
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ITANA Wiki – Enterprise Authorization Screen2Screen

Thank you to all who participated.

Date: April 16, 2009
Time: 1:30PM to 3:00PM Eastern Daylight Time
Agenda Part 1 is a presentation and discussion, Part 2 is a working session on the topic.
How to Join: See the instructions below.

Topic: Enterprise Authorization, Marina Arseniev

Truly enterprise-wide authorization solutions present challenges from the technology perspective and even more challenges from the business and cultural requirements perspective. Questions about scope, granularity, roles, delegation, and data integration with vendor and other software continue to be posed in many institutions where authorization solutions have difficulty meeting campus needs. Specific common problems and case studies, such as campus-wide access audits, are the focus of this session. We will share real-world experiences, identify common requirements and discuss solutions (successful or possibly not) to better understand common challenges.

This session will discuss why enterprise authorization is so elusive for so many of our institutions; it will be a forum to share successes and failures. The goal is to define what specific actionable steps or decisions architects across our campuses might be able to make that bring vision and clarity back to their organizations.

Marina Arseniev is Director of Enterprise Architecture, Security and Data Management Services for UC-Irvine

For more information about Screen2Screen meetings see:
http://www.itana.org/2009/04/06/screen2screen-and-itana-meet-ups/
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Screen2Screen

For more information about ITANA see:
http://www.itana.org/about/

How to Join the Screen2Screen Session:

There are two portions of the Screen2Screen. You should join both the web collaboration space as well as the conference call.

For the web collaboration space, connect via web browser at this URL:
http://internet2.acrobat.com/itana_meeting/

For the conference call, dial into the phone bridge below:

To join the call, do one of the following:
a. +1-866-411-0013 (toll free US/Canada Only), or
+1-734-615-7474 (Non-US/CA, non-toll free)
PIN: 0140398 (followed by “#”)

We follow the Internet2 Intellectual Property Framework: http://www.internet2.edu/membership/ip.html

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Face2Face+2008

Follow the links to the pages for each session to see the presentations and notes.

Did you attend the Face2Face?  Help flesh out the notes for the sessions on the wiki.

Thanks all for a great meeting.

Jim Phelps, Chair

Technorati Tags: EDUCAUSE, Internet2, ITANA

Here are some bits and pieces from the Face to Face meeting.

Several of us presented a follow-up at the Common Solution Group meeting in New York just after the Face 2 Face.

Links to the presentations from the Common Solutions Group follow-on discussion:

• Follow-on discussion of Enterprise Architecture Presentations as a PDF
• The SOA panel discussion as html

The wiki has rough notes that need to be cleaned up.

Oren Sreebny has posted several blog entries with his notes and comments on the Common Solution Group presentations: Enterprise Architecture and SOA: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

If you were at the Face2Face, help flesh out the notes on the wiki. Everyone else, add your comments.

http://home.uchicago.edu/~rthielen/IT-Architecture-June-04.pdf

Mark Poepping has a presentation about I.T. Architecture called WAG the DOGMA (on-line PowerPoint)

I have a presentation called I.T. Architecture. What is it and why isn’t 3 enough. (PDF Download)

In 2004, Tom Barton (U. Chicago) and Michael Gettes (Duke) hosted a discussion section at EDUCAUSE SAC. Their powerpoint can be downloaded from here: Architecting IT: The Role of Catalyzing Increased Coherence Across Systems and Services

Do you know of more? Let me know and I’ll post a link to them here.

- Jim