AAF Federation Rollout Workshop on Oct-Nov 2008

https://mams.melcoe.mq.edu.au/zope/mams/events/aaf-rollout-Oct-Nov-2008
Keen to learn more about Shibboleth® and Federations? Do you want to share your services with other universities in Australia ? Do you want to know more about what it takes to join the AAF, what AAF has to offer, how AAF makes a difference? In that case, you will be pleased [...]

The Names Project

http://names.mimas.ac.uk/
The project is going to scope the requirements of UK institutional and subject repositories for a service that will reliably and uniquely identify individuals and institutions.
It will then go on to develop a prototype service which will test the various processes involved. This will include determining the data format, setting up an [...]

Handle System Workshop

http://www.handle.net/workshop_08/
17 June 2008
Offices of the European Union
Brussels, Belgium

CNRI sponsored a Handle System Workshop on the afternoon of June 17th in Brussels, Belgium at the Offices of the European Union. The free workshop, hosted and arranged by the Office of the Publications of the European Union (OPOCE), was open to the public [...]

Identifying Researchers: podcasts andpresentations available

“Identifying Researchers” was held at the National Library of Australia on June 3, with 35 active participants generating good suggestions worthy of follow up (and yes, they will be followed up).
The individual presentations in the morning session are now available.  Both overheads and podcasts can be found at
http://www.apsr.edu.au/researcher_identity/presentations.html
Other documentation can be [...]

Towards the future with federated access management

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/news/stories/2008/05/podcast42mashagaribyan.aspx
The moves to federated access management have ‘propelled academic libraries into the forefront of matters related to identity management, ensuring seamless access to an ever widening range of online resources and services, both within and outside institutional and national boundaries.’
So says Masha Garibyan of the LSE (London School of Economics) and the JISC Access Management [...]

Identity management in education: podcast

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/news/stories/2008/04/podcast40jamesfarnhill.aspx
Thanks to identity cards and certain high-profile cases of data loss, the issue of identity management is never far from the headlines. In this podcast with Philip Pothen for Inform Plus3, JISC programme manager James Farnhill unravels some of the complexities involved in managing identity in further and higher education and explains how JISC’s work [...]

Identity Project

http://www.angel.ac.uk/identity-project/
Identity Management presents major challenges for the development of next generation Internet. Security deficiencies and lack of seamless, robust web-based systems integration technology are major obstacles in the development of public and private Internet based systems.

The Identity Project has been set up to face up to some of those challenges, [...]

Internet2 Community Releases Shibboleth Version 2.0

http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/shib-v2.0.html
The Shibboleth team is pleased to announce Release 2.0 of the Shibboleth system software.
v2.0 is a major new release that significantly improves interoperability, functionality, and manageability. It also provides more options for deployment while simplifying the installation process.

Identifying Data Sharing in Biomedical Literature

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgqz7h9q_142hrx7ssgz
Heather A. Piwowar and Wendy W. Chapman

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
 
Abstract
Many policies and projects now encourage investigators to share their raw research data with other scientists. Unfortunately, it is difficult to measure the effectiveness of these initiatives because data can be shared in such a variety of mechanisms and locations. We propose a novel approach [...]

Spotlight On Identity Management: Penn State’s Identity and Access Management Initiative

http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/SpotlightOnIdentityManage/46390
With demands for identity and access management (IAM) paralleling the explosive growth in online interactions, it is imperative that existing business systems, infrastructure, planning, and technologies evolve to keep pace with the access needs of the future. Recognizing the importance of developing a comprehensive, forward-looking strategy to deal with this issue, the IAM initiative was [...]