Info Grid 2005 - Tuesday 27th, 15:35 - Access Management projects at LSE (PERSEUS and ShibboLEAP)

15:35

Access Management projects at LSE (PERSEUS and ShibboLEAP)
John Paschoud, LSE (London School of Economics)

an institutional (university library) perspective on cost, benefits, etc.

[some history]

Athens
- "a big database table with 3 million rows and 300 columns" (somewhat facetiously)

PERSEUS
- LSE Shib-IdP had been previously established
- used to explore
  = access to end-user info systems
  = [other things I missed]

PERSEUS relationships

* used to bind 4 different internal systems, and then with others: uportal, Internet2, JISC, Endeavor,
  WebCT, SITS...
* relationships with other projects:
  DART (Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching),
  nereus (sharing economics resources), ShibboLEAP

Federations?

LSE is in lots of federations

Terms of content licenses

* Initial scoping audit of LSE Library e-resources management and current e-licensing situation
* Active participation in Meridian (Endeavor e-resources management)
* Active particpation in major e-licensing initiatives
* Joint PERSEUS / NEREUS study of e-resources Access Management terms (across 6 Euro countries)

Looked at roles of users

[list of roles]

Some challenges

* slow progress with Signet/Grouper, uPortal, and WebCT
* need for a central UK (or wider) database of standard licenses for major suppliers that reflects
  Shib-usable (eduPerson) attribs

Alumni groups as Virtual Organisations

[list, challenges]

ShibboLEAP

* get the UK Shibboleth ball rolling, something about access to Eprints repository?  ~150k people
* Role-based access in open archives: who is permitted to do what

* creates IdPs sitting on existing infrastructures at the organizations
* enables Eprints as Shib SP

Project Management

* Regular Library AND IT staff at each site
* High-level buy-in
* Focussed Project Management Board
- defined tasks for each meeting (one thing for them to decide)

Shibbing Eprints

* AuthN: easy
* AuthZ: not so easy

Benefits include
* other institutions can use this as the basis for their Shib IdP projects

a bunch of URLs including

http://www.lse.ac.uk/library

http://www.angel.ac.uk/PERSEUS

http://www.angel.ac.uk/ShibboLEAP