About Us
The primary goal of the NMI - Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies (EDIT) Consortium, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI), is to improve the productivity of academic scientists and higher education. In particular, NMI-EDIT has the following objectives:
- Foster interoperability among security and privacy management architectures
- Encourage a coherent middleware architecture that integrates with individual desktops and operating systems
- Enable new applications of value to research and higher education
- Disseminate and educate to ensure wide and consistent use of middleware services across the higher education, vendor, and research communities
This five-year initiative leverages the work of IT architects and users from universities to accomplish these objectives. The Consortium collaborates closely with a wide field of federal agencies, standards organizations, desktop operating-systems vendors, applications developers, organizations with data repositories, and human-factors experts.
Members in the NMI-EDIT Consortium
NMI-EDIT consists of Internet2, EDUCAUSE, and the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) and builds on the multiple successes of these organizations in collaborative project management.
- Internet2 has primary responsibility for coordinating the ongoing processes and interactions with NSF and other integrators, with existing directional organizations (such as MACE, Global Grid Forum, IETF, and OASIS), with upper middleware users (such as Globus), and with federal and corporate leadership to help insure a consistent and robust infrastructure.
- EDUCAUSE coordinates the dissemination and education activities of the initiative, developing structured educational content in the form of papers, web pages, presentations, and technical talks to facilitate and promote the rapid and uniform implementation of the results of the emerging middleware products and policies.
- SURA operates the NMI Integration Testbed. Testing is done at several levels: integration at desktops and distribution to desktops; integration with the campus infrastructure; vertical discipline integration within communities of users; and component scalability and consistency.
