ACI Chooser --- what a terrible name

We met today to decide how to put together the place where we gather information from the contract holder so that we can configure their space. I think that's what Bryan means by "Chooser" ---ugh. The inelegance of tech speak is legendary but this one is a real winner. The restricted contracting portal will already provide us with a great deal of information about the primary investigator that we can "populate" (another elegant use of a term) the forms with but we need to confirm the identity of the primary investigator and his/her research team. We will do that with an entry screen that confirms the identities through a MyData registration on the PI and a list of research team members and their emails. We then need to identify their choice of stat package and OS (the on-going argument between Steve Burling --our 70% man and Bryan is that almost 90% of the folks coming through this will choose a Windows environment as an OS and thus it makes both the OS choice and Burling an anachronism). We will also bring information from the RCS to determine the structure of the security for the data system the PI and team are accessing.

The things left to research are (1) how to bring users through to a firewalled entry to the site so that they do not have find and identify their IP addresses; (2) whether and how the PI would set up read/right permissions within the workspace for their affiliated researchers; (3) whether to allow content to be uploaded to the ACI without scrutiny. This research belongs to Steve.