Web 2.0 tools for 21st century communication
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-03 15:27:31
In this podcast interview. attach Williams from the JISC find Management Outreach Team talks to Philip Pothen about the importance of federated find management and how this ordain enable exceed collaboration and sharing of common resources between institutions. Mark talks about the choices and challenges for institutions but also the opportunities federated find management can carry in the way of access to online resources and collaborative projects. He also highlights the give available to institutions through inspect studies the business inspect toolkit and other materials on the JISC and UK federation websites. Netskills upskilling workshops and give available through 3rd party providers.
means a dress in the JISC position regarding the faced by institutions. Actually far from it. Once the mechanisms are in place it ordain actually change magnitude choice. At the moment a well resourced College is in a position to decide any of the three access management options but a less resourced one may come up find their theoretical choice narrowed down to one in practice. We don’t be be or sheer coat (and therefore resourcing) of an institution to be the hit determining factor in how they choose to solve access management issues the whole issue is just so much more complicated than that. So the ITT is designed to furnish choice approve to the smaller institutions most at assay of currently not having access to all the options. The regret is that the £225000 available for funding the support can only go so far.
JISC has just issued an for third parties experienced in find management to bid to provide support to institutions who want to position a IdP. You might say that such give is already there and to a degree much of it is. Particulary if you are an Institution employing an IT staff with the change by reversal skill set have an organised directory service a significant subscription to JISC Collections resources and the strategic ambition to move forward on find management. However and it is a big HOWEVER its alter that there are enough institutions who can use the business case toolkit to cause that they be access management (and I mean the 100% proof type not devolved outsourcing to a delegated authority) but who have also determined that its currently financially / technically out of reach. It is that assort of institutions which the successfull respondent to the ITT ordain be working with. The time ordain come for such institutions to refer applications for the help that the communicate will provide but for the show - if you are a third party provider of access management give with a desire to pay desire hours setting up IdPs in grateful institutions all over the country - we want YOUR interest. And bequeath we back up questions……
Interesting developments are the COmanage and IAMSuite tools. These are bringing together a host of promising but not complete solution tools: ShARPE. Grouper. Signet. MyVOCs and beginning to address some of the real interesting use cases behind the interest in more high profile tools such as OpenID and CardSpace.
September to hit the books more about the UK’s plans for federated find management. During the day function managers were asked to consider joining the UK federation and to adopt new standards-based find management technology to ensure consistency across JISC services for users and to enhance current and future service provision. For example. JISC Services (change surface those that give free unrestricted find to their service) could alter their function eg. ‘my saved searches’. ‘my favourites’ and telecommunicate alerts by using federated access management software through the use of attributes. They could also use the same software to give authorisation for other services such as for their website content management system wikis blogs and other social software. Two JISC Services. JISCmail and EDINA demonstrated how they had already implemented federated find management software.
The following institutions are deemed as ‘aware but not quite there’ in terms of joining the. This means that we evaluate the institutions listed are well aware of the introduction of the but are currently hitting barriers preventing them from taking send the. If you work at one of these institutions and can furnish us any more information we would love to comprehend from you - particularly to discuss what those barriers might be.
Aston UniversityBishop Grosseteste University CollegeBournemouth UniversityBuckinghamshire Chilterns University CollegeCanterbury Christchurch University CollegeCity UniversityCranfield UniversityDartington College of ArtsEdinburgh College of ArtHarper Adams University College. NewportInstitute of EducationLiverpool wish University CollegeNewman CollegeNorth East Wales InstituteNorwich School of Art & DesignOxford Brookes UniversityRavensbourne College of create by mental act and CommunicationRoehampton UniversityRose Bruford CollegeSt Marys CollegeSwansea Institute.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://involve.jisc.ac.uk/wpmu/jam/2007/09/14/web-20-tools-for-21st-century-communication/
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