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Higgins 1.1 web services (planned)

Personal Data Store

A Personal Data Store is a combination of web services that stores personal (self-asserted) data, that makes it available to selector clients, and that provides user-managed authorization to permissioned third parties. It is comprised of the following services:

Attribute Service 1.1 provides a bi-directional, synchronizing XDI endpoint over data managed by Context Provider plug-ins to the IdAS package. These context providers area also data adapters to a variety of back end data stores.
IdAS Proxy Service 1.1 allows selector clients using the C++ IdAS client library to access the Attribute service.
CardSync Service is a specialized bi-directional, synchronizing XML endpoint for synchronizing i-card data managed by the IdAS package.
Authorization Manager (planned) gives the user control over the flows of data from a managed relationship card provider to a relying party. We plan to use/adapt Kantara UMA protocols.

Cloud Selector

Cloud Selector 1.1 makes i-cards available as OpenIDs. It reads card data from an I-Card Service, so no client software is required.
I-Card Service 1.1 provides core i-card management services for both the cloud selector as well as "thin client" (UI-only) selectors

Authentication Service

For 1.1 we are working to make the CardSync Service and the Attribute Service 1.1 rely on an external Authentication Service 1.1. Eventually the I-Card Service will also rely on it.

Higgins 1.0 services

I-Card Manager: Thin client selectors use the I-Card Manager Google GWT-based app to provide a web interface to view, update and manage your cards hosted on the I-Card Service.
I-Card Service: Some selectors are designed as "thin clients" that only implement the user interface portion and rely on a hosted I-Card Service for core functionality.

Misc. Building Blocks

This section describes the data related services, java frameworks and data models that are used by the personal data agent services.

Data Models

Data Models 1.1 used in Higgins code and services

IdAS Solution

The IdAS solution provides a testbed for exercising the IdAS Java framework.

Higgins 1.1: See Higgins_1.1_Plan#IdAS_Solution_1.1
Higgins 1.0: IdAS Solution 1.0: a basic configuration of the Identity Attribute Service 1.0 (IdAS). IdAS is a java framework that provides a common interface to identity, profile, and relationship data from external data sources (e.g. websites, databases, directories).

XDI4J

XDI4J is a java library for working with XDI.

Higgins 1.1: XDI4j 1.1

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 ==Higgins 1.1 web services (planned)==
 ===Personal Data Store===
-A Personal Data Store is a combination of web services that stores personal (self-asserted) data, that makes it available to selector clients, and that provides user-managed authorization to permissioned third parties. It makes use of the following services:
+A Personal Data Store is a combination of web services that stores personal (self-asserted) data, that makes it available to selector clients, and that provides user-managed authorization to permissioned third parties. It is comprised of the following services:
 * [[Attribute Service 1.1]] provides a bi-directional, synchronizing XDI endpoint over data managed by Context Provider plug-ins to the IdAS package. These context providers area also data adapters to a variety of back end data stores.
 * [[IdAS Proxy Service 1.1]] allows selector clients using the C++ IdAS client library to access the Attribute service.

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