newsmay09
This is the JISC Access Management Monthly Update for May 2009.
JISC Consent Management Policies & Practice Survey
UK federation membership update
Service provider and their resources update
Events Attended
Upcoming Events
1. JISC Consent Management Policies & Practice Survey
JISC Legal is conducting research into “Institutional Consent Management Policy and Processes Supporting Personalisation”. The JISC-funded study is intended to assist the use of technologies which, for data protection or other legal reasons, require the consent of a user as to the release of their personal data. The project complements work being done on access management generally, and in particular, federated access management and Shibboleth.
As part of the project, JISC Legal is conducting an online survey to investigate:
• current policy and practice amongst institutions for gaining consent to the transfer of personal information to third party providers;
• the purposes for which this information is disclosed.
The survey is aimed at colleagues who deal with Data Protection, Identity Management and/or Federated Access Management issues.
The survey takes around 15 minutes to complete.
We will not disclose any of the information you supply in any way which would identify your institution. Any information you give will be used anonymously or in an aggregated form. We nonetheless ask for your contact and institution details in order to bring together multiple returns from a single institution, and to enter you in the prize draw noted below.
More information about the survey: www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ConsentMgt/Survey.html.
Why should you complete the survey?
• To assist a sector-led investigation into an area which will allow better use of technology in further and higher education.
• To have a chance to win a smart Flip mini-video camera: ideal for creating quick video resources in your institution with its one-touch simplicity, or for your holiday videos with its very portable size.
The survey URL: http://www.survey.lse.ac.uk/jisclegal_cmstudy09.
If you have any questions about this survey, please contact Masha Garibyan (m.garibyan@lse.ac.uk).
Many thanks for your participation!
2. UK federation membership update
The UK federation has currently 713 members
UK federation membership list
3. Service Provider and their resource update:
- Film Indexes Online—Film Index Online brings Film Index International, FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals and AFI Catalogue together in one site
- Film Index from ProQuest—Film Index International is a major information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute
- FIAF Index to Film Periodical from ProQuest—FIAF Index to Film Periodicals is a bibliographical index offering in-depth coverage of the world’s foremost academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present day.
- AFI Catalogue from ProQuest—The AFI Catalogue, the premier, authoritative resource of American film information for the years 1893-1972, is produced by the American Film Institute (AFI)
- New Service from Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG—Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. Is an independent publishing house with a history stretching back 250 years. Including its imprints, it forms one of the largest European publishers in the humanities.
- Magic Studio from Lexara Ltd.—Magic Studio™ can be used as an on-line authoring environment for the production of interactive resources or embedded as part of a wider “own branded” web service for our clients. Combining publisher’s content with the interactive tools and functionality of Magic Studio™ to enhance the use of VLE’s and Learning Platforms in schools provides a powerful proposition to the education market.
4. Events Attended
Link to staff updates and feedback on Access Management events: http://access.jiscinvolve.org/category/events/
To see all past events
5. Upcoming Events
Staff Details:
Nicole Harris continues to lead the Access Management team supported by Melissa Saunders in her role as Assistant Outreach Coordinator and Mark Williams who is now based in JISC Collections. The team can be contacted on jisc-access-management@jiscmail.ac.uk
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