eduPersonAffiliation

A short description

Specifies the person's relationship(s) to the institution in broad categories such as student, faculty, staff, alum, etc.

Usage

Utility class
[ Core | Standard | Extended ]
Basic applications like white pages and some authorization data.

Is attribute required?
Mandatory. Must be supported by all applications in the Feide federation.

Confidentiality
Low. Data well known from other sources.

Integrity
Medium. Values should be up to date.

Availability
Medium. If the LDAP uses this attribute, it should normally be provided for relevant objects. Authorization may fail if no value is available.

Details

Multiple values?
Multivalued

Value format
DirectoryString

Attribute origin
eduPerson

LDAP

OID

1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.1

Datatype

DirectoryString

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The list of allowed values in the current version of the object class is CERTAINLY incomplete. We felt that any additional values should come out of discussions with the stakeholder communities. Any agreed-upon additional values will be included as part of the later versions of eduPerson.

We also deliberately avoided including a value such as "other" or "misc" because it would be semantically equivalent to "none of the above." To indicate "none of the above," for a specific person, leave the attribute empty.

Semantics

Each institution decides the criteria for membership in each affiliation classification. A reasonable person should find the listed relationships commonsensical.

Feide usage notes

The following values are used for affiliation:

Student

The person is an active student. He is entitled to participate in a study program in which he attends courses. All students have the additional value of member.

Faculty

The person is employed with a job code that belongs to the main category 'Faculty'

(“Vitenskapelig”) (according to Norwegian legislation (“Universitetslovens elector gruppe
vitenskapelig tilsatte”)). All faculty has the additional values of employee and member.

Staff

The person is employed with a job code which does not belong to the main category

'Faculty'. All staff has the additional values of employee and member.

Employee

The union of 'Faculty', 'Staff' and other persons on the institution's payroll.

Member

The union of 'Employee', 'Student' and those persons who carry out functions similar to 'Employees', but who are not on the institution's payroll.

Affiliate

Persons without any kind of formal affiliation to the institution, people with whom the university has dealings, but to whom no general set of "community membership" privileges are extended. A person whose affiliation with an organization is as the legal guardian of a pupil must have an entitlement value of urn:mace:feide.no:value-def:foresatt in addition to an affiliation value.

Alum

Not in use as of today. This would be persons that are included in the institution's alumni arrangements.

If there is a value in eduPersonPrimaryAffiliation, that value should be stored here as well.

"Member" is intended to include faculty, staff, student, and other persons with a basic set of privileges that go with membership in the university community (e.g., they are given institutional email and calendar accounts). It could be glossed as "member in good standing of the university community." "Affiliate" is intended to apply to people with whom the university has dealings, but to whom no general set of "community membership" privileges are extended.

Affiliation is extracted from information contained in the institution's human resource (employee management) system, student registry and access control system (where available).

Example applications for which this attribute would be useful:

White pages, controlling access to resources.