Strategies: Core Principles
Core Principles function as the guiding philosophy of new the
infrastructure and are defined before design and implementation
phases. They are the basis
on which subsequent decisions are made and are rooted in the view that institutional
data is a strategic resource. Typically, these principles are agreed upon or
communicated with the stakeholders, including the data, application, service,
and user audiences and are included, for the most part, in a data administration
policy.
Sample core principles for an enterprise directory include:
- The directory links to all people of interest
and all their needed identity information
- Data infrastructure serves more than one institutional
application
- Data is protected and requires permission
for its use unless declared “public” by the data
custodians or owners
- Access to private directory data must be granted
for each application and be approved by the data custodians.
- Applications using that data should meet the
security and data definition guidelines put forth by the technical
service administrators.
- Data will be made available for all valid administrative
and educational purposes