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2018-09 Update: Samvera Permissioning Analysis Working Group

2018-09 Update: Samvera Permissioning Analysis Working Group

Presenting on the current state of Samvera permission implementations.

Further details available at

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/samvera/Samvera+Permissioning+Analysis+and+Design+Working+Group

Jeremy Friesen

September 21, 2018
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  1. 2018-09 Update:
    Samvera Permissioning Analysis
    Working Group
    LaRita Robinson & Jeremy Friesen

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  2. Overview
    Expected delivery
    October 2018
    Recent progress
    ● Incorporating additional use cases in
    the Permission Matrix
    ● Wrapping up Permission Matrix
    Biggest risk
    Transitioning from analysis and
    requirements gathering to technical design
    and implementation

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  3. Problem We're Solving
    Inflexibility
    ● Current permission
    implementation requires
    downstream developer
    involvement to modify
    ● Vulnerable to upstream
    change
    ● Mixture of "can?" and
    "is_a?" permission checks
    Opacity
    ● Cannot easily answer "Who
    can take the given action
    on the given object"
    ● Mixture of permissions on
    objects vs. in
    configurations

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  4. Problem We're Solving
    Incomplete Use Cases
    ● Current permission
    implementation no longer
    reflects the more extensive
    permission use cases of the
    community
    Inadequate
    Documentation
    ● Ambiguous how to modify
    my institution's
    permissions in a
    sustainable way

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  5. Deliverables
    Context Summary
    ● A one page summary of the
    current state of
    permissions in Hyrax
    Requirements
    Gathering
    ● Spreadsheet of submitted
    use cases
    ● Permission matrix to distill
    the use cases into a visual
    format of individual
    permissionable actions

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  6. Deliverables
    Requirements Synthesis
    ● Documentation of current
    gaps in the existing
    permission system -
    included in Permission
    Matrix and Design
    Objectives
    Design Objectives
    ● An implementation
    allowing repository actions
    to be permissionable and
    configurable
    ● Document listing design
    objectives

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  7. Process - How We Got Here
    Step 1: Gathered Information
    ● Reviewed Notre Dame’s prior analysis
    ● Discussed variety of problems which we needed to solve
    ● Solicited use cases from organizations participating in working
    group
    ● Gathered use cases in a common spreadsheet format

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  8. Process - How We Got Here
    Step 2: Organized Information
    ● Distilled common use cases into the Permission Matrix: a
    collection of individual permitted actions in a visual format
    ● Presented Permission Matrix to the community for feedback
    ● Added new actions based on community feedback

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  9. Process - How We Got Here
    Step 3: Analyzed Information
    ● Identified gaps in the existing permissioning system
    ● Identified objectives for a new permissioning system to be a
    success

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  10. Next steps
    Undelivered Deliverables
    ● We did not get to the design stage - we realized that our team
    composition lent itself to analysis and use-case gathering, and
    less towards system design
    ● Recommendation: A timeline and supplemental documents from
    which the community to further design out, develop, and
    implement the synthesized requirements.

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  11. Next steps
    Wrap Up Analysis Working Group
    Final report at Samvera Connect 2018
    Pass the Baton
    Charter a new working group with an eye towards design and
    implementation
    ● Should we do this? What happens if we don't?
    ● Who should (and can) lead this?

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  12. Questions

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  13. Question for the Community
    What additional information do you need to make a
    decision as to whether to invest (or not) in designing
    for and implementing these functional
    requirements?

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  14. Further Information
    Working Group Home Page
    ● Original Charter
    ● Meeting Agenda & Minutes
    ● Additional Documentation
    ● https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/samvera/Samvera+Permissi
    oning+Analysis+and+Design+Working+Group

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  15. Thank You

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