Integration with AAI Sample Clauses

Integration with AAI. Clarify the need for it, but recognize work involved, and explain decision to ignore this for now, but integrate in future. See position paper presented to and approved by EB. WP7 is aware of the development of services in WP5, and is closely connected to the relevant EUDAT working groups, particularly those on the relevant and related areas of AAI and Metadata management, but from a different perspective, since unlike any other EUDAT work package, WP7 needs to remain focussed on the 3-5 year horizon. Until such time as the project requires WP7 to reprioritise its activities, WP7 needs to be aware of and involved in current related developments in other work packages, whilst at the same time ensuring it remains focussed on the problems expected within the next 3-5 years. This is a careful balance, for which there are no easy solutions or formulae. It requires close and continued discussion with WP4, WP6 and with WP5 in particular. The following specific actions by WP7 were agreed with the SAF in February 2012, and subsequently approved by the Executive board as necessary steps to help achieve this balance:  Regularly review progress of the EUDAT AAI task force. It would be easy for WP7 to divert significant core effort into AAI, and by so doing fail to address the set of core issues currently under consideration. AAI is an area of world-wide interest and there are a considerable number of ongoing developments and projects. WP7 believes that the most productive stance at this stage is to track these developments via the EUDAT AAI task force, and review the position with respect to integration into scalable solutions during EUDAT year 2 or 3.  In order to achieve the necessary levels of scalability, WP7 believes that separating (or minimising) linkage between the physical archives and their related meta-data is a key architectural step. WP7 should be actively involved in the EUDAT metadata working group. The WP7 focus within this WG will be on developing solutions to enable cross disciplinary metadata searching across multiple separate institutions and disciplines. The WP7 focus will be aware of and consistent with the emerging metadata tools and services that may be developed and deployed by WP5 & WP6, as this area is also within the remit of the EUDAT meta-data working group.