[scim] Contributors needed for HR schema

[Danny Zollner <[e-mail]>]

Hi SCIM-ers,

One of the items on the charter for the SCIM working group is to design a human resources-centric schema for SCIM. For this to be successful, we'll need contributors that are knowledgeable on HR and HCM services and concepts. If anyone has background on this area - ideally previously or currently working for an organization involved in this space - and can contribute, please respond to this thread and let us know of your interest.

I've had some discussions with folks more knowledgeable on these sort of things than I am already, and here are a few things I took away from that that I'd like to put out there as ideas up for discussion:


  1.  We should create a new resource, "Worker", rather than make an HR schema on a user resource. HR data is likely to feed into a logic engine of some sort that then ultimately decides what needs to happen, and HR systems generally should not be directly turning HR data into users in other systems without some middle layer.

  2.  Some attributes in this schema may have a finite list of acceptable values - think locations, departments, cost centers. Extending other new resources, i.e.: /CostCenters, may be helpful for discovery's sake to allow a client interacting with an HR/HCM SCIM service provider to GET a list of allowed locations, departments, cost centers, etc.. and more efficiently generate requests where the values of these attributes can be predetermined to be valid or not ahead of an operation to create/update a worker.

Thanks,

Thanks,

Danny Zollner