1. Athens Building Communities Ed Zedlewski & Lyn Norris UKSG, Warwick, April 2002

2. Outline Athens today Access Management Systems & communities New developments

3. Athens today Delivers user: –Authentication –Authorisation –Administration and audit De facto standard –In use throughout HE/FE –Active roll out across NHS User profiling, bulk registration and SSO

4. Usage 1.8m users in HE/FE –All HE institutions –200+ FE colleges –50 DSP’s delivering over 200 online services Parallel service for NHS sector –200+ NHS trusts

5. Statistics 150+ daily bulk uploads Average 40+ subscribers per resource Over 4 years of non-stop authentication service

6. Forthcoming DSP’s Elsevier – ScienceDirect Wiley Swets Census data New DSP’s every week

7. Athens SSO What is SSO and how is it different from Athens? –Login once – get access to all authorised services –Requires latest v3.5 Athens agent Most DSP’s have either implemented SSO Agent or plan to implement during 2002

8. How does SSO work?

9. The need for communities UK Government desires a break down of the boundaries in education Greater efficiency of service delivery Greater integration with campus services

10. Communities Communities have common needs –Users need a common support infrastructure –DSP’s need common delivery systems –Education, health, library communities need to interact Athens is middleware that: –Facilitates accessibility –Draws users together

11. User communities Libraries need to deliver services to users –On and off campus –Distance learners Face new challenges of delivering integrated courseware systems and MLE’s Integration with student registration and enrolment, MIS and back office systems

12. User communities … Access to external services and content Increasing interaction between organisations –Collaborative projects/services –Greater student mobility All these services need common middleware Common community-wide user identities

13. Data Service Providers (DSP) Need to deliver cost effective products through: –Access to well defined subscriber communities –Common infrastructure for service delivery –Users identified in a consistent manner, delivering: Reduced maintenance costs Ease of product marketing and support Ever increasing delivery of personalised services Support for transactional services Pay per view User personalised services

14. What is the role of an AMS User management and profiling services Session and concurrency management Support for distributed user authentication Access tools/API’s to enable integration of the full range of back office systems

15. New developments in Athens AthensDA (Devolved Authentication) Improved user management Improved service management for DSP’s Certificate based authentication Integrated e-business services

16. Local Computing Library System Personnel Student Registry Institution Athens Database Directory

17. User Browser DSP service Athens Authentication Point Local Computing Library System Personnel Student Registry Institution Athens Database Directory

18. User Browser DSP service Athens Authentication Point Local Computing Library System Personnel Student Registry Institution Athens Database Directory Certificate Authority

19. Commercial Portals For example: Yahoo Content sites Portals For example: MLE’s MyAthens Applications Web browser. Front Office Middle Office Middleware Internet Transaction Engine Payments: Credit Card Pre-pay. Back Office Internet or Intranet MIS db Student db registration Library db DSP Content services & Portals & Portals Registration and Enrolment Data Secure Mail Policy Engine Pay per view

20. The future For UK education Athens will develop in line with JISC needs International interest continues to grow Athens is developing new services inline with International standards

21. Athens contacts Email: dsp@athens.org.uk Helpdesk@athensams.net Web: www.athensams.net Tel: +44 (0)1225 474333

22. Any questions?