Implied authorizations - links to documents and demos

1. Powerpoint presentation to MIT's IT Architecture Group (ITAG), May 28, 2008, in PDF format:
   Implied (rules-driven) authorizations - an enhancement to the Roles Database

2. Introduction to authorizations in the Roles Database: explicitly granted and implicit authorizations: http://web.mit.edu/repa/www/roles_auth_parts.html

3. Introduction to the planned use of implied authorizations for access to licensed online materials from the Libraries
   Plan for Library authorizations
   • Mock-up of adjusted department hierarchy for granting access to licensed materials

4. Relations DB and implied authorizations
   Detailed design features for
   • "Relations" - 3-part objects describing known data about people at MIT
   • Implied authorizations - rules for deriving implied authorizations from the "relations" data

5. Display of existing authorization rules on the test Roles DB (troles) along with a mockup of a simple rules definition interface
   • Test the results of implied authorization rules with this interface on troles - you need special authorizations to run this
   • Display function groups used in rules on the test Roles DB (troles)