The identity project
Overview
The project addresses the current practice and future needs of UKacademic institutions in Identity Management. The Identity Management issues which are investigated include Grid use, Shibboleth installations of varying degree of maturity, collaborative courses and other long term inter-institutional collaborations, internal and shared dynamic virtual organisations, classes of users other than standard staff/student mix, library access schemes, and NHS involvement.
The project partners are carrying out the research in the area of Identity Management partly by accomplishing key packages with dedicated researchers, and partly by involving staff at each partner, who are familiar with local organisational structures and requirements.
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Aims and objectives
We aim to achieve:
- a comprehensive broad survey of the current state of IdM in UKacademic institutions;
- a set of in-depth audits of IdM in a representative set of institutions.
And also:
- investigate practice and policy around institutional membership;
- investigate how having NHS links affects an institution's requirements from IdM;
- investigate how having Grid Infrastructure affects an institution's requirements from IdM;
- identifying common problems (and their solutions if possible) with regards to institutional IdM;
- attempt to establish community consensus on best practice in IdM;
- identify areas where further work is required.
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Project methodology
The first main area of work - a broad survey of IdM across the UKacademic sector - will be achieved through the use of an online survey. The second main area of work - in-depth institutional audits of IdM in a representative range of institutions - will be carried out by staff in each institution with help and guidance (and a template of how to go about the audit) coming from project staff.
Anticipated outputs and outcomes
The principal deliverable will be the project website, which will gather together all outputs of the project to be made available to the community at large. This will include the results of the survey (described in WP1), the findings produced from the in-depth institutional audits (described in WP2), the specific influences on IdM (described in WP's 3-6), information on tools and their usefulness in an institutional context (described in WP7), and documentation on common IdM problems and solutions discovered during the duration of the project (described in WP8).
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Technology and Standards used
ISO 17799
Lead institution
Project partners
Project Staff
Project manager
- Joan Wright, Information Services, Cardiff University, 39-41 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3BB, tel: 029 2087 4496, fax: 029 2087 4285 wright@cardiff.ac.uk
Project team
- John Paschoud, The Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD, tel: 020 7955 6129, fax: 020 7955 7454 j.paschoud@lse.ac.uk
- Simon McLeish, The Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD, tel: 020 7955 6450, fax: 020 7955 7454 s.mcleish@lse.ac.uk
- Rhys Smith, Information Services, Cardiff University, 39-41 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3BB, tel: 029 2087 0126, fax: 029 2087 4285 smith@cardiff.ac.uk
- Jonathan Giddy, Computer Science, Cardiff University, Queen’s Buildings, 5 The Parade, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, tel: 029 2087 9153, fax: 029 2087 4598 j.p.giddy@cs.cardiff.ac.uk
- Paul Rock, Information Services, Cardiff University, 39-41 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3BB, tel: 029 2087 4639 rock@cardiff.ac.uk
- Greg Pytel, The Library, London School of Economics and Political Science, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD, tel: 020 7852 3550, fax: 020 7955 7454 g.pytel@lse.ac.uk