PERSEU S : Portal-enabled Resources via Shibbolized End-user Security 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 1 News from the ‘misty’ Albion: Shibboleth in the UK Masha Garibyan London School of Economics Library, England (With grateful acknowledgement to Terry Morrow, JISC)

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 2 Why the United Kingdom? Total area – ‘slightly smaller’ than Oregon

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 3 UK Activity UK development work funded by JISC –Joint Information Systems Committee –Government funded body – multimillion £ budget –Supports IT in UK post-16 education & research Works with international partners eg –Internet2 –Terena (Trans-European Research & Education Networking Association) –International Middleware Meeting, Upper Slaughter (England), Oct 2004, JISC-sponsored

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 4 JISC Funding two major middleware initiatives –3-year technology development programme –2-year infrastructure programme

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 5 Technology Development 3 years (2004 – 2007) $5.7m (£3m) of government funding Funding 15 projects Wide range of middleware activities: –Development and evaluation of tools –Institutional deployment –Use of tools and policies Builds on earlier work also funded by JISC

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 6 Infrastructure Programme 2 years (2004 – 2006) $6m (£3.2m) of government funding Establishing a UK Shibboleth infrastructure Key work areas: –Making national data centre services Shibboleth compliant –Funding for 16 universities willing to be early Shibboleth adopters –Creating a dedicated support service for ‘early adopters’ –Liaising with suppliers (publishers, subscription agents etc) –Establishing a national UK Shib federation

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 7 Middleware Assisted Take-Up Service (MATU) Providing support to the JISC-funded early adopters Scoping future requirements for institutions adopting Shibboleth Support services include: –Comprehensive website –Documentation –Help desk –Onsite support –Training events –Links to and information about Shibboleth

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting universities 500 FE colleges Not bad for a country that is ‘slightly’ smaller than Oregon So, in the future it might look like this…

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 9 London School of Economics (LSE) Library

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 10 LSE Library Part of the London School of Economics & Political Science Also known as the British Library of Political and Economic Science The largest library in the world devoted exclusively to the social sciences 11,000 registered external visitors (e.g. Bill Clinton) and (rich) alumni

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 11 LSE Library projects Active participation in cutting edge information technology developments through internally and externally-funded projects (e.g. JISC) A track record of successful projects in access management (and other areas) LSE was the first institution in the UK to pilot the Shibboleth technology

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 12 PERSEUS Project Portal-enabled Resources via Shibbolized End-user Security (PERSEUS) Project Part of the JISC Core Middleware: Technology Development Programme PERSEUS aims to: –provide Shibboleth-based access management to information resources via an institutional portal (moving away from identity-based solutions) –use LSE as a UK test bed for Shibboleth –while being actively involved in other projects…

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 13 DART Project Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching (DART) Project: -a collaboration between LSE and Columbia University, jointly funded by JISC and the US National Science Foundation (2003 – 2008) DART aims to: –develop digital teaching resources for undergraduate anthropology –investigate opportunities for flexible resource- sharing between universities (using Shib)

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 14 PERSEUS/ DART connection PERSEUS Team (with colleagues from Columbia) helped DART to facilitate Shibboleth-based resource-sharing between the two institutions So, –No resource duplication –Institutional IPR protection First ever use of Shibboleth to share teaching and library resources across continents

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 15 It works like this… Columbia University has developed a digital resource in Anthropology which it is sharing with LSE An LSE user uses one of these routes to access the resource: –WebCT (LSE’s VLE) –Columbia University website

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 16 User is redirected to WAYF

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 17 User selects home institution

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 18 Request is processed

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 19 Success!

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 20 ShibboLEAP JISC Infrastructure Programme: Early Adopters Consortium of 6 London HE colleges, led by LSE LEAP = London E-prints Access Project Aims to create an authentication service for staff involved in managing content (e.g. academics, librarians) that doesn’t require use of a (yet another) username/password ‘supplied’ by Eprints.org server –Create a Shib IdP service at each college –Integrate the Eprints.org server making it a Shib target

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 21 So what’s next? Shib can be used in many different ways JISC has recently announced its plans to adopt Shibboleth as the main standards-based architecture for access management in the communities it serves. So, watch the space!

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 22 Some links

PERSEUS 3 May 05Spring 2005 Internet2 Member meeting 23 Contact details +44 (0) Any questions?