RE: [higgins-dev] can Higgins help me with that?

["Mary Ruddy" <mary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fabian,

This vision of enabling a person to "pull themselves together" across
the many different kinds of systems they interact with and better manage
their social network and relationships was part of our original vision
that led to the creation of the Higgins project. (We also have other use
cases.)

As Jim mentioned in his email, The Higgins IdAS layer and its API were
designed to be an abstraction layer to facilitate this.  We have begun
writing plugins (adaptors) to the IdAS layer to work with various types
of systems. Many more plugins are needed to enable your scenario. The
data structure of the IdAS layer was designed to support a network model
of nodes (people) and arcs (relationships).  

Though we have come a long way, there is still more work to be done, and
we would be interested in talking with you about your contributing to
Higgins.

-Mary

-----Original Message-----
From: higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fabian Weisensee
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:42 AM
To: higgins-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [higgins-dev] can Higgins help me with that?

Hello there

I read most of the wiki, but it's still not clear to me what could be 
done with Higgins.

I want to accomplish the following for my diplom thesis:
A webservice with which the user can manage his contacts.
You have to register for the service. You got your own profile, just 
like in a social network, with all thinkable (extendable perhaps) 
attributes, which the user can fill out at own will.
But the important thing is, that you can add your contacts, and if they 
are also registered, you automatically see the whole profile. You can 
categorize your contacts in groups like family, work, friends etc. 
Additionally we need to have fine-grained privacy control.
The interface shall be documented at detail, so that this service could 
be integrated in other programs, like Outlook/Thunderbird, ICQ/AIM/MSN, 
Skype etc. So the user would always have an up-to-date contactlist, 
synchronized over all his programs and all his PCs.

So my question is: How could Higgins help me to implement this 
infrastructure?
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Fabian Weisensee

PS: Hope my english is ok, as i'm not native english speaking.
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