Federated access management: key roles confirmed as support for the sector continues
As part of its ongoing and long-term commitment to the implementation of federated access management across the education and research sector, Jisc today announced new appointments to key roles to ensure that the sector continues to receive the support and guidance it needs.
The Policy Board of the UK Access Management Federation is to be reconstituted and will be chaired by Roland Rosner, Professor Emeritus of Networked Systems at UCL, where he was formerly Director of Education & Information Support. The Board will receive the report of a review to be conducted during 2009 on the sector’s transition to federated access management and will make recommendations to Jisc and Becta, the Federation’s initial sponsoring bodies.
Nicole Harris has been appointed Federation Services Manager, responsible for maintaining and developing links across the federation, helping to identify new user needs, managing the service review and implementing any new model resulting from the review.
Jisc announces new appointments to key federated access management roles to ensure the sector receives the support it needs.
In addition, Jisc will be appointing an expert within the sector as senior advisor to consult with institutions about the work of the federation, to identify problems, provide assistance and help to maintain the federation’s progress. Further details on this appointment will be made in due course.
These appointments follow details announced in the summer about ongoing support arrangements available to colleges, universities and other organisations involved in the transition to federated access management. These include helpdesk facilities at JANET, training available through both JANET and Netskills, community forums and events delivered by Jisc Regional Support Centres (RSCs) and continuing work by Jisc Collections to bring publishers and other service providers in to the UK Access Management Federation.
Commenting on his appointment and the tasks ahead, Professor Rosner said: ‘The Federation’s objective is to provide users in the education sectors with access to a wide range of digital resources without the need for separately identifying themselves at each location. This ambitious aspiration will require us to solve some complex issues among resource suppliers and user organisations which, if we succeed, will provide a beacon for other communities both within the UK and internationally. The Federation Board and I look forward to the challenge.’
For further information, please visit the UK Federation website here