Related Projects & Studies - Federation
Some related projects and studies recently funded by JISC:
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Projects |
Dates |
Description |
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Institutional Access Management Support Project |
Jan 08 - Aug 08 |
ATT: Potential support providers
JISC invited tenders for the design, development and delivery of a programme of support and associated technical solutions aimed at smaller UK FE/HE institutions seeking to join the UK Access Management Federation by becoming an Identity Provider (IdP).
The contract has now been awarded to Kidderminster College and Cardiff University.
ATT: Institutions
JISC invited smaller institutions that wished to express their interest in receiving support offered by the JIAMSP Project to submit a support request form (pdf) (rtf). |
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Smaller Publisher Access Management Support Project |
Mar 08 - July 08 |
ATT: Potential support providers
JISC invited tenders for the design, development and delivery of a programme of support and associated technical solutions aimed at smaller publishers and service providers, seeking to join the UK Access Management Federation by becoming an Identity Provider (IdP).
The contract has now been awarded to Kidderminster College and Cardiff University.
ATT: publishers and service provdiers
JISC invited smaller publishers and service providers to apply for support from this project. |
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Developing personalisation for the Information Environment (2) |
1 Nov 07 - 2 July 08 |
This project will scope how the JISC Information Environment (IE) may make use (or should be developed to make use) of adaptive personalisation in order to enhance the user experience. It will specifically consider the ways in which infrastructure established to support the UK Access Management Federation (the UK Federation) could support adaptive personalisation of JISC services, and the potential privacy and legal barriers to such use. |
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Netskills Federated access management training
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Oct 07 - Jul 08 |
Netskills Access management Training
JISC funded 120 places for UK He / Fe institutions to receive training on Federated Access Management and deployment of Shibboleth based IdPs. The training was provided by Netskills. |
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ES-LoA Project |
1 Nov 06 -
31 Oct 07 |
This project investigates current and future needs among UK research and education community for a more fine-grained authorisation scheme that would allow service providers to take into account of the levels of confidence in identifying a remote entity requesting for service access.
Lead institution: The University of Manchester
JISC programme: e-infrastructure programme. Read the final report. |
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The Identity Project |
1 Nov 06 -
31 Oct 07 |
The project addresses the current practice and future needs of UK academic 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.
Lead institutions: LSE, Cardiff University
JISC programme: e-infrastructure programme. Read the final report. |
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