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Climbing the Slope of Increasing Realism
LSE for You – the story continues…
Chris CobbJohn Paschoud
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The story so far….
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The story so far….
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The story so far….
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In the beginning….
“building on the fly…..”
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Slide 6, July 20th 2004Climbing the slopePEPC 2004, Nottingham
Getting our feet on the ground…• Coordination between key internal partners• A plan…• A budget…• A vision of what the users wanted…• An identification of the problems to be
solved…• An architecture to solve them…
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Architecture [1]: Traditional
portal
SITS
student data
Voyager
library data Jstor
e-journals
CMS
content
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Architecture [2]: Challenges
portal
Organisational Domain
Organisational Domain
Organisational Domain
Organisational Domain
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Architecture [2a]: What might happen
portal??? (…in the V-C’s dreams!)
Organisational Domain
Organisational Domain
Organisational Domain
Organisational Domain
Library portal
Admin portal
SU portalL-R portalmotivated departmental effort
infinite(?) corporate effort
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Architecture [3]: Managed
portal
Organisational Domain
Organisational Domain
Organisational Domain
Organisational Domain
CLRCLR CLRCLR
(CLR = Collection-Level Registry)
motivated departmental effort
focussed corporate effort…and support
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The Middleware Dilemma
•When it’s working, nobody sees it
•When it’s broken, EVERYTHING’s broken!
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Recognising some common goals• JISC AAA Programme
– LSE SECURe Project– Shibboleth Authentication & Authorisation protocols
• JISC strategy:– Middleware appears under Aim One:
“To develop solutions that help the UK education and research communities to keep their activities world class through the use of ICT.” (1.4 a middleware service)
– Meets Key Performance Indicator: “Develop a common, integrated information and communications environment.”
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JISC Common Information Environment
Powell, A, July 2003 (from UKOLN website)
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PERSEUS ProjectPortal-Enabled Resources via Shibbolized End-User Security
• Extending Shibboleth to provide a test vehicle for policy-driven target authorisation decisions
• Shibboleth-based access-management to information resources via an institutional portal, using uPortal toolkit– SigNet?– PERMIS?
• Authority management for “short-term virtual organisations”– LSE Alumni Special Interest Groups
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PERSEUS Project• Follows-on from JISC SECURe Project at LSE• JISC funding: £250K ($450K) over 2 years
– July 2004 to June 2006• Part of JISC Core Middleware:Technology Development
Programme– …fitting within JISC Common Information Environment
• Using LSE as a testbed– Users (‘only’ about 10K directory identities)– Infrastructure – Resource licenses
• Producing:– Documented, scaleable campus models– Contribution to OSS developments of uPortal and SigNet
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PERSEUS ‘Shibbolized’ architecture
(external resources)
portal
CMS
content
CLR (eg)
Organisational Domain
Voyager
library data
Organisational Domain
(eg)Jstor
e-journals
Shib AA--------------(+ authority manager)
YaleCAS(web ISO)
CMS
LDAP
enterprisedirectory
SITS
student data
ST
ST
HR
staff data
content content
ST
ST ST
ST
CLR (eg)
CMSST
content
CMSST
content
ST ST
CLR = Collection-Level RegistryST = Shibboleth Target
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Architecture [2a]: What might happen
portal??? (…in the V-C’s dreams!)
Organisational Domain
Organisational Domain
Organisational Domain
Organisational Domain
Library portal
Admin portal
SU portalL-R portalmotivated departmental effort
infinite(?) corporate effort
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More than one portal?
Learning portal?
CLRCLR CLRCLR
(somebody else’s institutional) portal?
Admin portal?Research portal? (VRE?)
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• Bi-lateral short-term courses– LSE-Columbia DART Anthropology teaching project
• Regional resource-access deals– InforM25 London libraries
• National content licenses– EDINA, MIMAS data services
• Trans-national consortia– NEREUS portal for European Economics Research
Portal interop scenarios
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Portal interop testbeds
Regional inter-library portal:
InforM25(London regional libraries ‘clump’)
Subject-specialized research portal:
NEREUS(Europ. Economics Research)
Shib-enabled resource
non-Shib resource
Campus ‘access-to-everything’ portal: LSE for You2
Shib-enabled proxy
UK DSP resources
Columbia Anthropology resources
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Alumni groups as Virtual Organisations
• 2,500/year registered with LSE Library• 4,000 alumni email accounts• Special interest groups
– (e.g.) LSE Lawyers Group– (e.g.) American Friends of LSE– Self-administering– Semi-autonomous– Loose contractual relationships– …but politically highly significant / powerful
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Alumni groups as Virtual Organisations
• How can we model their (limited, but highly-valued) rights of access to restricted resources?
• …without compromising the value of ‘full member’ status for current staff & students
• …or our licence conditions for commercial resources
• How can we manage their dynamic nature?• …or do we trust them to do that themselves?
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PERSEUS relationships
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Involving real people
• Service providers• Resource owners• Students• Academics-as-teachers• Academics-as-researchers• Academics-as-decision-makers
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[LSE MIKE: Study view]
LSE MIKE: end-user ‘Study’ view
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[LSE MIKE: Life view]
LSE MIKE: end-user ‘Life’ view
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Bringing Everyone Together
At times it felt like …..
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Climbing the slope of increasing realism
• Focus groups, focus groups, focus groups• Straw poll• Training• Budget negotiations• Compromise• Student Experience
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Making the business case– killer apps.
• cv builder• reference writer• simple student record• simple budget report
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A long slow gentle incline……
Worlds Colliding or Coalescing?
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• JISC Common Information Environment: www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/
• JISC Core Middleware Programmes:www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_middleware
• Internet2/MACE Shibboleth: http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ • JA-SIG uPortal: http://www.uportal.org/ • NMI-EDIT PERMIS: http://www.permis.org/ • MACE Signet: http://middleware.internet2.edu/signet/ • Access Management, the Key to a Portal, Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser,
in Ariadne 35: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/SPP/intro.html • LSE SECURe Project: www.angel.ac.uk/SECURe
• Chris Cobb: [email protected] • John Paschoud: [email protected]
[Further information]
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