This page proposes a draft process for granting of data access rights to LSST users according to the Data Access White Paper (Doc-53733).
The goals for the process are:
- Minimize manual steps for LSST users and staff (e.g., grant data access rights automatically based on campus attributes when possible).
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People who have data rights:
- national "professional astronomical community" (US, Chile, France?)
- named individuals from international partners
- a limited number of designated additional individuals (post-docs, grad students) per named individual
Granting data rights based on campus attributes:
- National federations follow the eduPerson (http://macedir.org/specs/eduperson/) attribute standard
- http://macedir.org/specs/eduperson/#eduPersonScopedAffiliation
- faculty, student, staff, alum, member, affiliate, employee, library-walk-in
- member is faculty or staff or student or employee (not alum) i.e., "member in good standing of the university community"
- no "astronomer" attribute, departmental affiliation not well supported
- proposed: member@example.edu in national federations (InCommon, Chile COFRe) has data rights
- include post-docs/grad-students as members by default?
Granting data rights based on named individuals:
- matching email addresses
- email attribute from campus identity provider or verified by LSST sign-up process
- email-based invitation process
- invite "named individuals" to create LSST account if they haven't already or add data rights to existing account
Granting data rights to designated additional individuals:
- anyone with data rights can add others? or only "named individuals"?
- email-based invitation process
- "people picker" - find individuals to grant data rights to
- limited number: who will control this policy
Maintaining data rights:
- Periodic (annual) re-validation of "designated additional individuals"
- de-provisioning of data rights?
- "Once a scientist has data access, they don't lose it even if they change institutional affiliations."
- faculty change of institution: leaving USA
- what happens when student graduates?