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[Martin Matthiesen <martin.matthiesen AT csc.fi>]

Hello,

> * Martin Matthiesen <martin.matthiesen AT csc.fi> [2014-12-01 12:19]:
>> "employee" vs "student" as the lowest common denominator would
>> certainly work for me, if "employee" is only given to academic staff
>> and thus would be compatible with Clarin ACA.
> 
> That's precicely what you cannot do, give "employee" a new meaning to
> mean you want it to.

I meant employee = staff + faculty. And this is the meaning Swamid is using, 
Leif may correct me here.

> (And "academic staff" sounds like a contradiction in terms to me.)

Sorry for the sloppy use of "staff", being a controlled word. So I could see 
it working that (according to Swamid [1]) professors, lecturers and 
researchers (="faculty") as well as other personnel of the educational 
institution (="staff") would be eligible to access a "Clarin ACA" resource. 

And of course I (by myself) cannot give any attribute a new meaning, but 
since a lot of organisations have already done so, I'd rather clarify the 
meaning of existing attributes (even risking that some organisation needs to 
do a search and replace) than putting new attributes into the mix that might 
or might not be in use in 5 years from now by 30% of IdPs. Here I assume that 
we all benefit from lesser complexity.

Martin

[1] https://portal.nordu.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=31197805