• ONE PERSON; ONE RECORD: Centralize data about your populations from your existing systems into single, aggregated person records.
• CUSTOM UNIQUE IDENTIFIER GENERATION: Produce unique identifiers for the people in your registry that can be relied upon across all your systems, even when personal data have changed.
• SOPHISTICATED ENROLLMENT WORKFLOWS: Configure end-user-friendly invitation, conscription, and self-service enrollment workflows without writing a line of code or XML.
• DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENT OF POPULATION GROUPS: Organize and manage your populations into groups to drive their roles and access provisions or plug into tools like Grouper for more sophisticated group management.
• USE REGISTRY DATA IN OTHER SYSTEMS: Provision information aggregated and managed in your registry into other systems that need it.
• OFFBOARDING AUTOMATION: Configure offboarding policies to automate membership transitions and notify those who need to know.
• EXPAND AND CUSTOMIZE: Use Registry’s sophisticated and powerful plugin platform to connect, extend, and leverage your person-data to your unique systems, processes, and resources.

The COmanage Registry workshop provides the technical know-how to get your solution up and running. Whether you represent a research computing center or central IT, you can expect to learn how to:

• Deploy COmanage Registry using the InCommon Docker images from the InCommon Trusted Access Platform and configure it for basic use.
• Configure COmanage Registry to work in a way that is customized for your organizational needs.
• Model your organization or collaboration and to set up enrollment flows and data processing to get the right people using the right services.
• Understand the basics of identifier management and group/role provisioning and management.
• Configure COmanage Registry to provision your registry data for use in other systems.

After completing the COmanage Registry workshop, most attendees felt they could confidently use COmanage for their production needs.

This workshop is designed to provide live engagement with instructors and other participants, while still enabling students to complete self paced work and to practice new skills. Yes, it’s the best of both worlds!

• Sign into Canvas to complete self-paced learning of the COmanage basics the week before live classes
• Join us for live classes (via Zoom)
• Engage in conversation and ask questions in a dedicated Slack channel
  • Sign in a week before class
  • Keep the discussions going for two weeks after class
• Leverage a virtual machine to complete class labs. Keep on practicing in your VM for two weeks post-class
• Access the course materials for 2 months after the workshop ends

Detailed preparation instructions will be available and distributed before the workshop.

1. The training makes use of Virtual Machines (VMs). The training team will provide access instructions at least one week before the workshop starts.
2. You will need to have an SSH client on your laptop you can use to SSH into the VM.
3. You will need root/administrator access on the computer you will be bringing to class so that you can modify the local hosts file.
4. Your VM will be available during the workshop and for two weeks after the training. After two weeks, the VM will no longer exist, so be sure to save anything you need within two weeks of the end of the training.

View the course curriculum.

• MATCH ANYTHING: You define the attributes to be used for matching. Match is optimized to match data about people, though it can be used to match records for any data set.
• RULES-BASED MATCHING: Build sophisticated matching algorithms based on fuzzy matches, dictionary-based matches, and substring matches — configure case sensitivity, the inclusion or exclusion of non-alphanumeric characters, and how NULL fields are handled.
• POTENTIAL AND CANONICAL MATCHES: High-confidence matches are automated — lower-confidence matches trigger notifications so they can be resolved in the Match interface or integrated system.
• IN THE MOMENT OR ASYNCHRONOUS: Perform and resolve matches in the moment or process matches in batches to be resolved later when needed.
• TOOL AGNOSTIC: Use Match as a stand-alone service, with COmanage Registry, or integrated into your own systems and workflows through a flexible API.
• DESIGNED BY THE COMMUNITY FOR THE COMMUNITY: Match was created from a standard, the Trusted Access Platform Identity Match Protocol. This standard was collaboratively developed in 2021 by an Internet2 community working group led by Benn Oshrin, managing partner at SCG.

This virtual, hands-on workshop will get you started with COmanage Match. This cross-system matching engine provides a heuristic-based system for matching identity and other records across multiple authoritative systems of record. It uses established matching rules to minimize the creation of duplicate information about the same person or object. Match can be used with COmanage Registry or as a standalone product complementary to your other tools. In this one-day workshop you can expect to learn to:

• Set up and configure COmanage Match for your needs
• Configure matching rules to identify canonical and potential matches
• Create test sets to build confidence in your match rules
• Get hands-on experience with the Match API

This workshop is designed to support live engagement with instructors and other participants, while still enabling students to practice new skills. 

• Join us for a live class (via Zoom)

• • • Engage in conversation and ask questions in a dedicated Slack channel
      • Sign in a week before class
      • Keep the discussions going for two weeks after class
    • Access the course materials for 2 months after the workshop ends

No pre-work is required for this workshop.

View the course curriculum.