TED: Understanding the Data in TED
What information does TED contain?
TED contains identity and affiliation information about the people associated with UT Austin and some UT component institutions. It contains an entry for every valid record in the uTexas Identity Manager (TIM). These entries contain information that is organized into a schema of data attributes. This schema defines the names for data attributes, the format of the data attributes, and the attributes that can be used as search keys in TED. This schema is described in detail on the TED Directory Schema. The data attributes that are populated for specific person vary depending on the person's current affiliation with UT Austin and with the data available from the source systems that feed TED.
Importantly, the data in TED represents the current state of the record. A few attribute values (such as Prior EID) contain historical information to aid in finding the correct record when identifiers have been changed. Otherwise, TED does not contain historical or transactional information.
Where does the data come from?
The data in TED is derived from many sources, including the uTexas Identity Manager (TIM), the Office of the Registrar (via Academic Information Systems), and Human Resources Services (via Enterprise Business IT Solutions). TED is not the authoritative or official source system for any data - it is only a compilation of information from other systems.
How often is TED updated?
Most of the data in TED is updated on a nightly basis. Some attributes are updated on a near-real-time basis. These include UT EID itself, UT EID status, affiliations, and entitlements.
Who can access TED?
TED is a restricted directory service for internal university use only. Prior authorization is required before users and services can access TED. Restrictions on the use of TED are described in the TED Acceptable Use Policy, with which all users and services must comply.
What kinds of searches are supported by TED?
The data attributes that are available as search criteria are described on the TED Directory Schema. In general, TED should be used to retrieve information for a specific person rather than for large groups. For example, a good use of TED is to answer questions such as, "What is the affiliation of Person A with UT Austin?" or "What is Student B's official major?" An inappropriate search request would be, "Who are all the students at UT Austin?" To discourage directory trolling and to maintain performance levels for other users, TED enforces limits on processing time and the number of records retrieved for a particular search.
How is the data in TED organized?
The data in TED is organized by entity groups in a tree structure. For example, all person entities are stored in the ou=people subtree. The diagram below illustrates the current directory structure.
The urn:mace:utexas.edu Namespace
The Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI) (formerly the Middleware Architecture Committee for Education or MACE) has delegated the operations of the Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespace urn:mace:utexas.edu to UT Austin Information Technology Services.
This namespace supports the assignment of unique, global, persistent names to resources used by UT Austin in its Shibboleth, directory services and other middleware initiatives.
For more information about URNs, see:
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Internet2/MACE Uniform Resource Name (URN) registry home page.
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RFC 3613, which defines the urn:mace namespace and describes the procedures and policies governing its use.
Registrations in the urn:mace:utexas.edu Namespace
Namespace | Purpose | Date Registered |
urn:mace:utexas.edu:dir | Enterprise Directory implementation | 19 Oct 2004 |
urn:mace:utexas.edu:entl | Entitlements | 23 Jun 2005 |
Questions about registrations under urn:mace:utexas.edu, including suggestions for new registrations, should be directed to the Directory Team at directoryteam@utlists.utexas.edu.✉
The urn:mace:utexas.edu:dir Namespace
The urn:mace:utexas.edu:dir namespace contains unique, global, persistent names for resources used in UT Austin's enterprise directory services.
Additional information is available on our TED Directory Attributes site.
Registrations in the urn:mace:utexas.edu:dir Namespace
Name | Date Registered | Comments |
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Object Classes | ||
utexasEduOrgUnit | 25 Jan 2005 | A Department EID |
utexasEduPerson | 07 Dec 2004 | A Person EID |
utexasEduApplication | 24 Jan 2005 | A Service EID |
utexasEduGroup | 30 Sep 2005 | A Group EID |
utexasEduBusiness | 06 Jan 2006 | A Business EID |
utexasEduIdonly | 06 Jan 2006 | An ID-only EID |
utexasEduOrg | 06 Jan 2006 | A UT System institution |
utexasEduGroupStructural | 22 Feb 2007 | Structural objectClass that mimics groupOfNames, except that member is optional |
utexasEduResource | TBD | A Resource EID (unused) |
Attributes | ||
utexasEduPersonEid | 07 Dec 2004 | UT EID |
utexasEduEid | 07 Dec 2004 | UT EID |
utexasEduPersonPriorEid | 07 Dec 2004 | Prior UT EIDs |
utexasEduPriorEid | 07 Dec 2004 | Prior UT EIDs |
utexasEduPersonUin | 07 Dec 2004 | University Issue Number |
utexasEduUin | 07 Dec 2004 | University Issue Number |
utexasEduPersonPriorUin | 07 Dec 2004 | Prior UINs |
utexasEduPriorUin | 07 Dec 2004 | Prior UINs |
utexasEduPersonIsoNumber | 07 Dec 2004 | UT Austin ID card number |
utexasEduPersonClassificationCode | 07 Dec 2004 | Student classification code |
utexasEduPersonPadlock | 07 Dec 2004 | UT Austin PADlock credential (hashed) (unused) |
utexasEduPersonPriorName | 07 Dec 2004 | Prior names |
utexasEduPersonOrgUnitName | 07 Dec 2004 | Name of employee's department |
utexasEduPersonMajorCode | 07 Dec 2004 | Student major code |
utexasEduPersonMajor | 07 Dec 2004 | Student major description |
utexasEduPersonClassification | 07 Dec 2004 | Student classification description |
utexasEduPersonOfficeLocation | 07 Dec 2004 | Employee office building & room |
utexasEduPersonCampusMailCode | 07 Dec 2004 | Student classification description |
utexasEduPersonPrimaryTitle | 26 Apr 2005 | Primary employee job title |
utexasEduPersonPrimaryOrgUnitName | 26 Apr 2005 | Name of employee's primary department |
utexasEduPersonBirthDate | 07 Dec 2004 | Birthdate (CCYYMMDD) |
utexasEduPersonAssuranceLevel | 07 Dec 2004 | UT EID assurance level code (unused) |
utexasEduPersonGroup | 07 Dec 2004 | Group memberships (unused) |
utexasEduPersonAttrRestrict | 07 Dec 2004 | Attributes marked "do not release" |
utexasEduPersonRecordRestrict | 07 Dec 2004 | Blanket record release restrictions |
utexasEduPersonSchool | 07 Dec 2004 | Student school description |
utexasEduPersonSchoolCode | 07 Dec 2004 | Student school code |
utexasEduPersonMajorDept | 07 Dec 2004 | Student major dept description |
utexasEduPersonMajorDeptCode | 07 Dec 2004 | Student major dept code |
utexasEduPersonAssociatedSchoolCode | 07 Dec 2004 | Student official & "associated" school codes |
utexasEduPersonCourseNumber | 07 Dec 2004 | Student current courses (dept abbr. + course nbr.) |
utexasEduPersonClassUniqueNbr | 07 Dec 2004 | Student current classes |
utexasEduPersonGraduationSem | 07 Dec 2004 | Graduation semesters (CCYYS) |
utexasEduPersonJobClassCode | 07 Dec 2004 | Employee job class code |
utexasEduPersonJobClassCategory | 07 Dec 2004 | Employee job class category description |
utexasEduPersonJobClassCategoryCode | 07 Dec 2004 | Employee job class category code |
utexasEduPersonFullPartTimeEmployee | 07 Dec 2004 | Employee full/part time code |
utexasEduPersonSchoolMajorCode | 30 Jan 2017 | Declared major code with school code |
utexasEduPersonOrgUnitCode | 22 Nov 2019 | Code of employee's department Was: utexasEduPersonNonFinBar |
utexasEduPersonDeanVPOrgUnitCode | 22 Nov 2019 | Code of employee's Dean/VP level department Was: utexasEduPersonFinBarCode |
utexasEduPersonAffiliation | 13 Jan 2005 | UT Austin affiliation |
utexasEduOuDeptCode | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept code |
utexasEduOuDeptType | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept type description |
utexasEduOuDeptTypeCode | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept type code |
utexasEduOuDeptAttribute | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept attribute description |
utexasEduOuDeptAttrCode | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept type code |
utexasEduOuAccUnitCode | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept attribute description |
utexasEduOuDpuserDeptCode | 25 Jan 2005 | DPUSER dept code |
utexasEduOuIsAcademicCode | 25 Jan 2005 | Ofc of Inst Research academic code |
utexasEduOuDeptOfficialTitle | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept official title |
utexasEduOuSortTitle | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept title for sorting |
utexasEduOuDeptShortTitle | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept short title |
utexasEduOuDeptSplitTitle1 | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept split title line 1 |
utexasEduOuDeptSplitTitle2 | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept split title line 2 |
utexasEduOuOrgDN | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept parent organization DN |
utexasEduOuDeptHeadDN | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept head DN |
utexasEduOuReportsToOuDN | 25 Jan 2005 | Superior dept DN |
utexasEduOuReportsToVcdOuDN | 25 Jan 2005 | Superior VP/College/Dean dept DN |
utexasEduOuReportsToChain | 25 Jan 2005 | Superior dept codes separated by underscores |
utexasEduOuManagesOuDN | 25 Jan 2005 | Subordinate dept DN |
utexasEduOuCampusMailCode | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept campus mail code |
utexasEduOuEffectiveDate | 25 Jan 2005 | Effective date of dept info (CCYYMMDD) |
utexasEduOuAffiliatedOuDN | 25 Jan 2005 | Affilated dept DN |
utexasEduOuFamiliarTitle | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept familiar title |
utexasEduOuDeptManagerDN | 25 Jan 2005 | Dept manager DN |
utexasEduOuDeptStatus | 23 Oct 2007 | Dept status code |
utexasEduOuUnitCode | 10 Mar 2010 | OU Unit Code |
utexasEduOuUnitInstitutionCode | 10 Mar 2010 | OU Unit Institution Code |
utexasEduAppAdminDN | 24 Jan 2005 | Service technical contact DN |
utexasEduAppOwnerDN | 24 Jan 2005 | Service owner contact DN |
utexasEduAppSponsorDeptDN | 24 Jan 2005 | Sponsoring dept DN |
utexasEduAppAUPSignDate | 24 Jan 2005 | Date Acceptable Use Policy last signed for service (CCYYMMDD) |
utexasEduAppAUPSignerDN | 24 Jan 2005 | Signer of AUP for service |
utexasEduPersonHomeAddressSource | 13 Jan 2005 | Source code for home address |
utexasEduPersonHomePhoneSource | 13 Jan 2005 | Source code for home phone |
utexasEduPersonEmailSource | 13 Jan 2005 | Source code for email address |
utexasEduPersonAUPSignDate | 25 Jan 2005 | Date Acceptable Use Policy last signed (CCYYMMDD) (unused) |
utexasEduPersonHighestDegree | 26 Apr 2005 | Employee's highest degree achieved |
utexasEduPersonLastUpdateTime | 02 May 2005 | Date/Time record last updated (CCYYMMDDhhmmsst) |
utexasEduPersonPubAffiliation | 20 May 2005 | Affiliation that can be publicly released |
utexasEduPersonPermEid | 11 Jul 2005 | Permanent EID (from legacy EID system) |
utexasEduPersonEidClass | 11 Jul 2005 | EID class ("MEM"ber, "AFF"iliate, "GUE"st) |
utexasEduPersonPrimaryPubAffiliation | 09 Aug 2005 | Primary public affiliation |
utexasEduPersonSortName | 16 Sep 2005 | Display name in LAST, FIRST M order |
utexasEduPersonAffCode | 12 Oct 2005 | UT affiliation code (includes DEFINE components) |
utexasEduPersonMemAffSw | 12 Oct 2005 | Indicator of member or affiliate EID class "Y" |
utexasEduPersonForcePasswdChg | 12 Oct 2005 | Indicator of password change needed "Y" |
utexasEduPersonAuthnLockTypeCode | 12 Oct 2005 | Indicator of reason for locked authn acct |
utexasEduPersonCapturePasswd | 16 Nov 2005 | Indicator that password needs to be captured "Y" (unused) |
utexasEduPersonEntitlementCode | 16 Nov 2005 | Code values for entitlements |
utexasEduPersonBirthCity | 30 Jun 2006 | City or town of birth (unused) |
utexasEduPersonBirthState | 30 Jun 2006 | State or province of birth (US and Canada only) (unused) |
utexasEduPersonBirthCountry | 30 Jun 2006 | Country of birth (unused) |
utexasEduPersonPadlockUserStatus | 30 Jun 2006 | PADlock authentication status (unused) |
utexasEduPersonPadlockLockTypeCode | 30 Jun 2006 | Reason code for PADlock being locked (unused) |
utexasEduPersonPriorSurname | 30 Jun 2006 | Former last names (unused) |
utexasEduPersonPriorGivename | 30 Jun 2006 | Former first names (unused) |
utexasEduPersonFlsaExemptSw | 30 Jun 2006 | Set to "Y" if employee is FLSA exempt |
utexasEduPersonFirstDateOfEmployment | 30 Jun 2006 | Date first employed (YYYYMMDD format) (unused) |
utexasEduPersonLastDateOfEmployment | 30 Jun 2006 | Date last employed (YYYYMMDD format) (unused) |
utexasEduPersonDateOfContinuousEmpl | 30 Jun 2006 | Start date of continuous employment (YYYYMMDD format) (unused) |
utexasEduPersonPadlockForceChgSw | 30 Jun 2006 | Set to "Y" if PADlock must be changed at next authentication (unused) |
utexasEduPersonMainframeId | 10 Mar 2010 | Preferred user ID on the UT Austin Mainframe (unused) |
utexasEduPersonHonor | 10 Mar 2010 | Honor |
utexasEduPersonPrimaryHonor | 10 Mar 2010 | Preferred Honor |
utexasEduPersonStudentLegalName | 30 May 2021 | Student Legal Name |
utexasEduPersonEmployeeLegalName | 30 May 2021 | Employee Legal Name |
utexasEduGroupPersonAudit | 30 Sep 2005 | Audits that must be satisfied for a person to be in a particular group |
utexasEduGroupServiceAudit | 30 Sep 2005 | Audits that must be satisfied for a service to be in a particular group |
utexasEduRoleCode | 17 April 2013 | Code indicating which Role the group applies to |
utexasEduRoleScope | 17 April 2013 | Scope of Role, ie to what does this role apply |
utexasEduRoleAttribute | 17 April 2013 | Description of Role attributes, freeform field to define additional attributes |
utexasEduRoleSource | 17 April 2013 | Description of Role source i.e., which system is this role for |
utexasEduOrgInstitutionCode | 02 Feb 2006 | UT System institution/component code |
utexasEduOrgAbbr | 02 Feb 2006 | UT System institution/component abbreviation |
utexasEduOrgName | 02 Feb 2006 | UT System institution/component name |
utexasEduOrgNameAbbr | 02 Feb 2006 | UT System institution/component name abbreviation |
utexasEduOrgAcademicHealthSw | 02 Feb 2006 | UT institution academic/health component switch |
utexasEduBusinessDunsId | 22 Feb 2006 | Dun & Bradstreet ID |
utexasEduBusinessParentDunsId | 22 Feb 2006 | Parent Dun & Bradstreet ID |
utexasEduBusinessSponsorDN | 22 Feb 2006 | DN of department sponsoring this business EID |
utexasEduTestRecordSw | 30 Jun 2006 | Set to "Y" if record is a test record |
utexasEduLastValidLoginTime | 30 Jun 2006 | Date/time of last valid login CCYYMMDDhhiissZ |
utexasEduLastInvalidLoginTime | 30 Jun 2006 | Date/time of last invalid login CCYYMMDDhhiissZ |
The urn:mace:utexas.edu:entl Namespace
Code | Date Registered | Sponsoring Department | Comments |
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IDP | 11 Jul 2005 | ITS | Subject has had his/her government-issued photo identification reviewed by the ID Center |
SIG | 11 Jul 2005 | ITS | Subject has signed the electronic signature agreement |
DEV | 18 Nov 2005 | ITS | Subject is considered to be part of the UT Austin developer community |
LLC | 18 Nov 2005 | UT Libraries | UT Libraries courtesy borrower |
LLG | 18 Nov 2005 | UT Libraries | UT Libraries guest borrower |
LLS | 18 Nov 2005 | UT Libraries | UT Libraries special borrower |
LLV | 18 Nov 2005 | UT Libraries | UT Libraries visitor |
WSD | 18 Nov 2005 | School of Law | UT Law School student |
WEM | 18 Nov 2005 | School of Law | UT Law School staff |
WLC | 18 Nov 2005 | Law School | UT Law School alumni |
DPU | 04 Mar 2006 | ITS | Subject has a DPUSER logon ID (may be locked) |
NRA | 30 Jun 2006 | Registrar | Subject is authorized to view confidential student information |
RUP | 30 Jun 2006 | ITS | Subject was remotely upgraded |
LLT | 06 Sep 2006 | UT Libraries | Subject is a UT Libraries temporary user |
UMU | 06 Sep 2006 | ITS Campus Solutions | UMBS user access exception |
EID | 08 Jan 2007 | ITS Campus Solutions | Subject is an EID system steward |
CWU | 08 Jan 2007 | ITS Campus Solutions | Person has been granted access to courses.utexas.edu |
ECS | 15 Feb 2007 | Engineering | Person is an Engineering Co-op Student |
UXA | 11 May 2007 | ITS Campus Solutions | Person is a Systems Staff UNIX Administrator |
IVS | 24 May 2007 | International Office | Person is an International Visiting Scholar |
RMC | 10 July 2007 | Office of Sponsored Projects | Authorized to use Cayuse 424 |
TLA | 5 January 2008 | Office of VP for Research | Research eProtocol System |
ERS | 19 May 2008 | Cockrell School of Engineering | Person is registered with Engineering Career Assistance Center |
ERC | 12 June 2008 | Department of Educational Administration | Person is authorized to use Educational Research Center System |
NSC | 14 July 2009 | College of Natural Sciences | Person is a Natural Sciences Co-op Participant |
NWA | 14 June 2010 | Human Resources | Person has been granted permission to access the campus public network |
UMS | 1 April 2011 | ITS Campus Solutions | UT Mail user |
UMA | 1 April 2011 | ITS Campus Solutions | UT Mail Administrator |
UMX | 7 February 2012 | ITS Campus Solutions | UTMail Security Administrator |
MCL | 13 June 2012 | McCombs School of Business | McCombs Lynda.com Access |
MCO | 1 August 2012 | McCombs School of Business | McCombs MBA OrgSync Access |
BOX | 15 January 2013 | ITS Campus Solutions | BOX User |
AAD | 21 November 2013 | ITS Campus Solutions | EID can authenticate to Austin Active Directory regardless of affiliations |
IID | 27 May 2014 | ITS Campus Solutions | Institutional Identifier User |
UTW | 17 Feb 2015 | ITS Campus Solutions | UT Web Admin |
WSU | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Campus Solutions | Deprecated. Was: Webspace User |
WSP | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Campus Solutions | Deprecated. Was: Webspace Prohibited |
DP0 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to Data Plan 0 |
DP1 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to Data Plan 1 |
DP2 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to Data Plan 2 |
DP3 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to Data Plan 3 |
DP4 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to Data Plan 4 |
DP5 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to Data Plan 5 |
DP6 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to Data Plan 6 |
DP7 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to Data Plan 7 |
DP8 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to Data Plan 8 |
DP9 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to Data Plan 9 |
HOU | 15 Aug 2016 | University Housing and Dining | Has a housing contract with the University |
TV0 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to IP TV service offering 0 |
TV1 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to IP TV service offering 1 |
TV2 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to IP TV service offering 2 |
TV3 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to IP TV service offering 3 |
TV4 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to IP TV service offering 4 |
TV5 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to IP TV service offering 5 |
TV6 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to IP TV service offering 6 |
TV7 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to IP TV service offering 7 |
TV8 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to IP TV service offering 8 |
TV9 | 15 Aug 2016 | ITS Networking | Subscribed to IP TV service offering 9 |
OLL | 9 May 2017 | Thompson Conference Center | OLLI Participant |
ENG | 10 Apr 2018 | Cockrell School of Engineering | Person is Cockrell School of Engineering Staff or Faculty |
EML | 14 May 2018 | ITS Campus Solutions | EID is eligible for an O365 email box regardless of affiliations |
DVC | 8 Nov 2018 | ITS | For the Identification of Devices |
IDC | 4 Dec 2018 | ITS | Indicates ID Card eligibility |