1. Resource Entitlement Management System
Mikael Linden
Janne Lauros
CSC – IT Center for Science

2. Access to research datasets
0. Fully public access
1. Researcher has a role/group membership
IdP managed/VO-managed
2. Researcher commits to datasets’ licence terms
3. Researcher fills in and submits an application
- Dataset owner approves/rejects
Or any combination of 1, 2 and 3.
Resource entitlement management system (REMS)

3. Research group Members of the application
The REMS concept
3. Circulate to approver
1. Apply for access
Dataset 1
Dataset 2
DAC 1 Approver
DAC 2 Approver
Principal investigator Applicant
Research group Members of the application
IdP SP
4. Approve
REMS
Workflow
Reports
Entitlements
5. Access
2. Commit to licence terms
Metadata on dataset 1&2

4. CASE: Nordic Control Database
GWA data from 5500 samples from Estonia, Denmark, Finland and Sweden
Nordic Centre of Excellence in Disease Genetics NCoEDG
Dataset hosted by EGA, The European Genome-Phenome Archive ( a service of the European Bioinformatics Institute

5. CASE: process for applying access to the Nordic Control Database

6. Relying on the REMS access rights
Identity Provider
attributes
Service Provider
Identity Provider
Service Provider
entitlements
attributes + entitlements
attributes
REMS Attribute Provider
REMS IdP proxy
(a) External attribute provider
(b) IdP proxy
(c) Or a custom REMS integration

7. The REMS implementation
Funded by the ELIXIR ESFRI project
A Java portlet on Liferay, using Vaadin framework
Open source (LGPL)
Discipline-independent
Initially bioinformatics
Interest also in linguistics and social sciences
CSC is going to offer a REMS instance to other ELIXIR nodes
Subject to a positive funding decision

8. REMS demo

9. Questions? See also the TNC2013 full paper in