[Sigia-l] LDAP & Information Architecture

[Victor Lombardi]

--- "Chan, Lisa" <chan_lisa at gsb.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I'm currently investigating the use of LDAP to
> manage information besides
> people information(which is what LDAP is used often
> for).  Is there anyone
> out there familiar with any projects that have used
> LDAP as a data model for
> hierarchichal information. 

In a word, no, but perhaps an anti-example would be
helpful? I've been on a project where the people
information was stored in LDAP and used to drive
personalization. Other metadata was stored in a
relational database because it offered more robust
functionality. The people info was kept in LDAP and
queried when needed (buzzword="Enterprise Information
Integration"). In this case different departments in
the organization owned different systems, and it was
better to leave them in place and communicate among
them.

This article from an LDAP co-author might be
interesting:
http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/DCM20000502S0039

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Victor Lombardi
http://www.noisebetweenstations.com

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