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PERSEUS:
Portal-enabled Resources via Shibbolized End-user Security
News from the ‘misty’ Albion: Shibboleth in the UK
Masha Garibyan
London School of Economics Library, England
(With grateful acknowledgement to Terry Morrow, JISC)
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Why the United Kingdom?
Total area – ‘slightly smaller’ than Oregon
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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
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JISC
• Funding two major middleware initiatives – 3-year technology development
programme– 2-year infrastructure programme
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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
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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
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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
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180 universities
500 FE colleges
Not bad for a country that is ‘slightly’ smaller than Oregon
So, in the future it might look like this…
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London School of Economics (LSE) Library
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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
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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
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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…
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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)
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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
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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
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User is redirected to WAYF
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User selects home institution
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Request is processed
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Success!
27-Apr-05 UKSG2005: Shibboleth Briefing 25
[demo5] user reaches secure resource
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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
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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!
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Some links
• www.jisc.ac.uk/programme_middleware.html• www.angel.ac.uk/PERSEUS/• www.columbia.edu/dlc/dart/• www.angel.ac.uk/ShibboLEAP/• www.matu.ac.uk
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Contact details
• [email protected]• +44 (0)20 7852 3509• www.angel.ac.uk/PERSEUS
Any questions?