Christopher Brown, JISC; presentation given at the OpenAthens seminar: Work smarter not harder with FAM. March 2011

1. eduserv - OpenAthens Seminar #oa11- 10/03/2011 Presenter or main title… Access & Identity Management Programme (#jiscaim) Session Title or subtitle… Christopher Brown c.brown@jisc.ac.uk Digital Infrastructure

2. AIM – supporting Innovation How does AIM fit in to JISC? 10/03/2011 | Slide 2 Innovation Group Content Digital Infrastructure (eResearch & Information Environment) e-Learning AIM OUT http://www.flickr.com/photos/triplemaximus/156523870/sizes/z/in/photostream/

3. AIM – supporting e-Research 10/03/2011 | Slide 3 e-Research Research Comm Eng AIM Research Data Mgmt VRE Research Infrastructure

4. AIM Programme 1st Jan 2009 to 31st March 2011 (IdM Toolkit Pilots – Feb-July 2011) Focus: Process Policy Technology Objectives Build foundations for production systems that universities might adopt in the future Prepare the sector for future developments Improve user experience Increase value and make AIM relevant to wider community Enable integrated systems architecture Develop practical tools to enable AIM 10/03/2011 | Slide 4 Exploring Innovative new areas

5. AIM Programme UK Access Management Federation Support Expand Improve Increase uptake Funding Shibboleth Consortium (JISC, Internet2, SWITCH) Technical roadmap Governance mechanisms Operate open source project => Shibboleth Foundation? Extending Access Mgmt into BCE Publisher Support WAYFless URLs 10/03/2010 | Slide 5

6. AIM Projects – IdM Toolkit John Paschoud LSE Completed June 2010 Online and PDF versions Aimed at executive and technical staff in HE & FE Review, assess and improve performance of IdM Raise and maintain awareness, importance and key issues of IdM Launched UCISA/JISC conferences Spring 2010 Website: http://www.identity-project.org Support: jisc-identity-management@jiscmail.ac.uk 10/03/2011 | Slide 6 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ugardener/2499663609/sizes/z/

7. AIM Projects – IdM Toolkit Pilots Two Pilots (Feb – July 2011) UK Data Archive / University of Essex Imperial College Institutional Benefits Institutions assess and review their IdM processes and policies Cost savings from using and acting on advice in the Toolkit Toolkit Benefits Tests the Toolkit through implementation Increase the uptake of the Toolkit Not a static Toolkit Further develop its usefulness 10/03/2011 | Slide 7 http://www.flickr.com/photos/redune/4226064/sizes/o/in/photostream/

9. Scalable service

10. Useful audit records

11. Accounting ability

12. Improved Login experience

13. Practical n-tier integration

14. Systems integrationAIM Projects - Grouper 10/03/2011 | Slide 8 Cal Racey University of Newcastle 15 months http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregloby/3515990945/sizes/m/in/photostream/

15. AIM Projects – Usage Statistics Graham Mason Cardiff Univ/Kidderminster 15 months RAPTOR (Retrieval, Analysis, and Presentation Toolkit for usage of Online Resource) Software toolkit that will allow visualisation of e-resource usage to non-technical people Also allow for publishing aggregated usage information to a federation operator Open source / open standards Fully documented and easy to set up/customise Aggregation – aimed at installing at the institutional level, but can aggregate upwards Collaborating with SWITCH and MIMAS 10/03/2011 | Slide 99 http://www.flickr.com/photos/eschipul/167852691/sizes/m/in/photostream/

16. AIM Projects – Web Services Fiona Culloch EDINA 12 months WSTIERIA (Web Services Tiered Internet Authorization ) Make web services work with UK federation Investigating two approaches: using “façade” to handle authentication new Shib features to invoke web service between SPs Tested on two application domains: Geospatial web service (SEE-GEO) WebDAV (widely deployed remote file-access protocol layered on HTTP) Community Benefit Web services interoperate with FAM Improve end-user experience by application componentization Real components need authorization Access presently hidden web services Discussing with MIMAS, SDSS, Shibboleth 10/03/2011 Slide 10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/aqua-marina/840167789/sizes/m/in/photostream/

17. AIM Projects – Data sets Andrew Simpson University of Oxford 12 months SOFA (Service-Oriented Federated Authorization) Two broad goals: The facilitation of data aggregation across distributed, heterogeneous data sources The provision of secure, assured data sharing Value: Low cost Limited impact Data ownership remains unchanged sif: middleware framework that facilitates the secure sharing and aggregation of data from disparate, heterogeneous data stores SOFA: an extension of sif that allows data owners to leverage their access control paradigm of choice Applications: student administration; heart modelling; research into Bipolar disorder 10/03/2011 | Slide 11

19. Scenario for UMA use case shows applicability of the new technology to HE environments

22. TERENA (TNC2010, TF-EMC2, REFEDS) - NRENS

23. Knowledge Exchange (JISC, SURFfoundation, DFG, DEF)

24. USA

25. Internet2

26. Kantara

27. Australasia

28. AAF (Australian Access Federation)

29. CAUDIT (The Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology)

30. eWorks – Technical and Further Education (TAFE) sector

31. MoRST (Ministry of Research, Science and Technology)http://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/3185534518/sizes/m/in/photostream/

32. AIM – The road ahead The new JISC: HEFCE review Reduced funding Concentrate on key areas of AIM Make a business case for funding What should the AIM programme fund? Follow-on funding for projects Build a community Benefit realisation 10/03/2011 | Slide 15 http://www.flickr.com/photos/iguanajo/2838705163/sizes/m/in/photostream/

33. AIM – Information Blog: http://aimprog.jiscinvolve.org/ Netvibes (#jiscaim): http://www.netvibes.com/jiscaim JISC AIM queries: c.brown@jisc.ac.uk Toolkit queries: jisc-identity-management@jiscmail.ac.uk Programme tag #jiscaim 10/03/2011 | Slide 16 http://www.flickr.com/photos/dm-set/3435818474/sizes/z/in/photostream/

34. Questions 10/03/2011 | Slide 17 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mic_n_2_sugars/564570276/sizes/o/