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1 Shibboleth in Finnish Higher Education Organisations E-ICOLC 2005 Poznan, Poland

2 HAKA FEDERATION federation for Finnish higher education formed in May 2005 cooperation between Finnish HE organisations and CSC (F innish IT center for science) aim to provide inter- organisational network services protocol chosen = Shibboleth six universities have signed the federation agreement –common set of policies and rules federation member can act as 1.home organisation –maintains identity information of end users –authentication –up-to date user identity management system 2.service provider –provides services

3 HAKA FEDERATION federation for Finnish higher education identity providers –University of Helsinki –Tampere University of Technology –Helsinki University of Technology  authentication service providers –Nelli-portal –A&O learning management system –JOOPAS (electronic circulation of applications for visiting student in another university) –CSC's extranet for Funet member organisations  authorisation

4 Nelli portal (MetaLib/SFX) Resources e-journals, reference databases, e-books, reference works library catalogues Users universities (21), polytechnics (31) public libraries –over 400 public libraries –20 regional libraries –Central public library

5 Advantages secure, privacy-preserved manner of exchanging information (safe from attacks) possibility for more tailored services  based on user roles (attributes) single sign-on to services regardless of the organisation who produces them the more services available the more benefit for users  single sign-on

6 Advantages remote use service providers need not maintain user registers  can take advantage of user’s home organisation’s registers when publishers choose Shibboleth  no more ip numbers needed for authorisation


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