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Re: [higgins-dev] can Higgins help me with that?
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Mary,
I hoped that Higgins would help me with that. That's the reason i'm here.
But i have to admit, that the architecture is still beyond my grasp.
I'll just explain how i understood it, and then you can correct me :)
I thought the place where the actual data of the users contact-list
could be saved, would be the context provider, and the IdAS provides the
API to access this (the webservice-interface).
So the plugins/adaptors you are talking about, would enable the
mail-/IM-/whatever-program to get access to the IdAS, and the
contact-data stored in the corresponding context provider.
I hope i'm not too far off the track with this.
And there are some other questions:
Jim mentioned an identity store. I thought this would be called context
provider? Where's the difference?
What about access policies? It would be absolutely crucial to limit
access to authorized persons.
Jim wrote:
> - No one has built connectors yet such that different identity readers
> (address books, IM lists, etc.) can all read the same identity store.
> It'd be cool if they were able to use IdAS as their interface.
What prevents them from using the IdAS API? Is it the API itself or the
missing plugins for these programs?
As i explained above, this is exactly what i want...
OK, enough questions asked.
Although i'm quite a noob to all this identity-stuff, i'm very
interested in this and also motivated to contribute to Higgins. But
first priority is finishing my diploma and i still have to find a
professor who supports my idea. If i'll find one i'd be glad to
contribute every bit you could need from my results.
Thanks for your help
Fabian
Mary Ruddy schrieb:
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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