Purdue University Identification: Management Tools
The purpose of the Purdue University IDentifier (PUID)
system is to develop a database of people affiliated with Purdue University.
This database will combine information from multiple operational systems to
create a single record for each person. The information from each operational
system will be connected to the single record for the person.
This will create a system-to-system path to allow each operational system to
locate a person's records on other operational system, without requiring each
system to track keys in other operational systems. While this is important now,
with many systems designed to use the SSN as their internal key, it will become
much more important in the future as newer systems are implemented which do not
use SSN, but create their own record keys.