SCHAC - SCHema for ACademia
SCHAC Objectives
The need of interoperability among different components and the need of exchanging information outside institutional and sometime outside national boundaries have increased awareness of the role that attributes play.
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SCHAC is a collection of schemas that aim to facilitate interoperability among those institutions that decide to use them. SCHAC does not aim to replace the national schemas, but rather it aims to provide a common framework on top of the various national schema.
SCHAC Individual Attributes specification
The first release of "SCHAC Individual Attributes Specification" was issued in May 2006. The release defines a set of attributes to describe individuals in the academic and research institutions and contains an appropriate LDAP profile in appendix.
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The current SCHAC release, as well as previous releases and proposed updates, can be downloaded from the download page.
SCHAC Review Plan
The SCHAC community is working on a plan to review the whole SCHAC schema and its governance. See the SCHAC Plan for more detail.
How to contribute to SCHAC
SCHAC schema is updated anytime proposals for updates are agreed by the SCHAC community.
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Proposals for changes are discussed on the SCHAC mailing list for community feedback and approved by the SCHAC Editorial Board. If consensus is reached on a proposed change, then the new attributes or the updated attributes are added to the SCHAC schema on the next new release.
SCHAC Mailing list
The group is open to anybody who has experience using directories, attribute schemata and who is keen to contribute.
To join the SCHAC mailing list (schac@terena.org) please contact Licia Florio.
The mailing list archive is available here.