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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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* Full Project Proposal Word document, 93KB | RTF document, 179KB

* Catalogue Shibboleth Intergration PDF, 153 KB
* Grid Shibboleth Intergration PDF, 757 KB
* Shibboleth IdP Implmentation PDF, 173 KB
* Shibboleth SP Implmentation PDF, 123 KB
* Shibboleth Attribute Management PDF, 90KB
* SERAPIS Final report PDF, 112 KB

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