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NEWSLETTER

ISSUE #19 | January 15, 2024

Training and Feedback

Yes, it has been a long time since we sent our newsletter. As you know, the COmanage project is supported by individual contributors. While we have been able to continue our development and software support activities, some personal obligations have made it temporarily difficult for us to keep up with these communications. Fortunately, things are now back on track, and we expect to continue as we had. Today, we’re sharing two other activities that will resume in March: Open Office Hours and COmanage Training.

Open Office Hours - March 8

Do you have a question about deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!); just show up! A short conversation starter kicks off each session to help get the discussion started.

Friday, February 8 at 12:00 PM (America/New York)
(no registration necessary)

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84743471575?pwd=d29QNFM1KzEwUFZvRFg0enJ1dlNmQT09 

Subscribe to COmanage Events or, https://www.addevent.com/calendar/Nr648428

2024 Topic Aperitif: COmanage Registry 5.0 Update

Much of the COmanage Project development team is focused on development toward the release of COmanage Registry 5.0. We will kick off each of the Office Hours in 2024 with a brief update on the latest developments.

Training - Register by March 12, 5:00 PM ET!

InCommon will offer COmanage Training for both Registry and Match the week of March 25, 2024. Be sure to register early - courses will be canceled if too few learners sign up. 

COmanage Registry - March 26-27 | REGISTER

Learn how to set up and administer COmanage Registry with this hands-on course. Follow the three common use cases to understand how to maximize your tool use: Enterprise Registry, Virtual Organization Registry, and Guest Registry. This workshop covers

1. Getting Started - An overview of COmanage Registry and hands-on exercises to set up your virtual machine for the Workshop.

2. People - COmanage Registry is a registry for people. In this topic, you will learn how people are represented within Registry and how to link data from your external systems to create an aggregate view of person data.

3. Structure - The structures used to manage organizational, role, and/or access groups within Registry.

4. IDs and Authenticators - Create and link identifiers and authenticators to the people represented in Registry.

5. Enrollment Flows - Create and customize enrollment workflows to add and update data about the people represented in Registry.

6. Provisioning - Provision data from Registry into external systems to enable authorization decisions, system-to-system data sharing, and system connections.

7. Offboarding - Eventually, people you have registered will no longer have a connection to part or all of your organization or collaboration. This topic is about how offboard people: how to unwind provisioning, roles, and Registry access.

COmanage Match - March 28 | REGISTER

Learn how to use de-duplicate your population data using a heuristic matching tool. Match can be used standalone or integrated into Registry. This hands-on workshop will provide you the basics of developing and testing matching rules and strategies for testing these rules. This workshop also reviews how to use the Match API that you will use to integrate Match with your own tools. This workshop covers:

1. Getting Started — This module briefly introduces COmanage Match. It explores what we mean by managing duplicates and outlines the capabilities and structure of COmanage Match to address duplicates.

2. Sources — This module reviews how to link sources that contain records you want to compare using Match. It includes configuring the Systems of Record and the methods for adding records to Match.

3. Attributes — Each system of record (SoR – aka, source system) you connect to COmanage Match contains multiple records. Each of these records describes a data subject. One of the first things you need to do in planning your strategy for matching records across various sources of record is to establish what attributes (fields) about the data subject you will use to determine matches.

4. Rules — COmanage Match uses a set of rules to determine matches. You configure these rules to indicate either exact (canonical) or potential matches based on a comparison of attributes already present in the records of your Matchgrid compared with those of a new Record being analyzed. In these lessons, you will learn how to configure your rules for the sources in your Matchgrid.

5. Testing— It is difficult to fully anticipate how your match rules will behave without testing them. Your tests will reveal additional considerations based on the data that you are likely to find in your source data and how the rules are configured. In these lessons, you will learn how to build test sets and use them to evaluate how your match rules will perform on the type of data that you will be evaluating.

6. Resolve Matches — Your rules will not always present exact matches; some will need to be resolved by a person. This lesson will describe resolving potential matches in the COmanage Match interface and will discuss how the COmanage Match API can be used to resolve matches in other ways, for example, synchronous matching at the time of record creation or resolution using an interface in another tool including one that you may build yourself.

COmanage News

Do you have news to share? Let us know on the #incommon-comanage slack channel or by !

Chat with Benn at Community Exchange!

The COmanage project architect, Benn Oshrin, will be at Community Exchange next week in Chicago. Be sure to catch up with him to chat about the project or even to just say, “hi”!

That’s it for this month’s newsletter. We hope to see you during our next open office hours!

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About The COmanage Project

COmanage is an Open Source Project that is focused on streamlining digital lifecycle management for your populations. It consists of two tools: Registry and Match. 

COmanage Registry is an identity registry with flexible enrollment and lifecycle management capabilities that helps you meet your identity management objectives using standardized tools and approaches. It can be used as a central person registry, a guest management system, or a collaboration hub for scholarly collaborations.

COmanage Match performs identity de-duplication in order to help minimize the creation of duplicate accounts for the same individual. It provides a heuristic-based system for matching identity records across multiple authoritative systems of record. Match can be used with Registry or as a standalone product complementary to your other tools.

Learn more about the project and its supporters at https://incommon.org/software/comanage/.

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