Shibboleth Early Adopter Programme

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Description

The AHDS manages the preservation, discovery and dissemination of a number of digital resources in various fields of the arts and humanities. Most of these resources result from publicly-funded research projects carried out by academics at UK institutions of higher education, and are deposited with the AHDS at the conclusion of the associated projects, with the intention of making them available to the wider educational and research communities. In many cases, access to these resources is free and unrestricted to all users, although access to some resources is subject to a variety of restrictions specified by the resource owners. This access must be managed by a system that can accommodate any necessary restrictions, while maximising accessibility for the user community.

This project has the following aims related to this core AHDS activity:

  • To implement a Shibboleth-based registration system able to manage access to restricted and freely available resources, as a replacement for the existing system;
  • To investigate the use of a Shibboleth implementation to simplify the accession/ingest and management process for digital resources;
  • To investigate the possibilities for using Shibboleth in a distributed access environment based on a grid-computing architecture.

The project will run for one year (1st February 2006 - 31 January 2007)

For further information on the project, please contact

Mark Hedges; Tel: 020 7848 1970; Email: firstname.lastname@ahds.ac.uk.

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Project Details and Contacts
Project TitleShibboleth Early Adopter Programme
Start Date1/02/2006
End Date31/01/2007
Project DirectorMark Hedges
Tel: 020 7848 1970
Email: firstname.secondname@ahds.ac.uk
Project AdministratorKatrin Tiedau
Tel: 020 7848 1978
Email: firstname.secondname@ahds.ac.uk

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Documents
 
Initial Documents
 
Final Documents

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This project was funded byJoint Information Systems Committee