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16 May 2005 JISC Core Middleware Programme Meeting, Loughborough
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PERSEUS: Portal-enabled Resources via Shibbolized End-user Security
PERSEUS Project Update
John Paschoud, Project Manager(and Simon McLeish, and Masha Garibyan)
LSE Library
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Overview
• PERSEUS aims & architecture
• Relationships… Federations?
• Progress to date
• Some challenges
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PERSEUS Project
• July 04 – June 06• Portal-enabled Resources via Shibbolized End-user
Security• LSE Shib-IdP established in previous projects
– LSE was the first Shibboleth adopter in the UK
• Using this to explore:– Access to end-user info systems integrated via an
institution-wide portal (uPortal development)– Next steps in ‘fine-grain’ authorisation (Signet development)– Access for ‘ad-hoc’ user communities: Alumni groups as
Virtual Organisations
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Project aims
• Using LSE as a testbed– Multiple user identities and attributes (but ‘only’
about 10K directory identities)– Infrastructure – Resource licenses
• Producing:– Documented, scaleable campus models for
implementation– 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
SP
SP
HR
staff data
content content
SP
SP SP
SP
CLR (eg)
CMS
SP
content
CMS
SP
content
SP SP
CLR = Collection-Level Registry CMS = Content Mgmt System
SP
IdP
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PERSEUS relationships
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Related projects
• DART– Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching
• nereus– European collaboration for Economics research
• ShibboLEAP– Shibboleth-enabling the London University
SHERPA-LEAP OA consortium
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[DART]
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[Nereus]
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[ShibboLEAP]
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Federations?
nereus
ShibboLEAP
DART
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Real-life roles
• Service providers
• Resource owners
• Students - in many roles
• Academics-as-teachers
• Academics-as-researchers
• Academics-as-decision-makers
• Alumni …as???
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Progress to date [1]
• Shibboleth progress– Installation (and many upgrades!) of IdP
and SP software at LSE– Successful connection to SDSS / Athens
test federations– Investigation of SELinux incompatibilities
with Shib & testing of fixed SP software (in progress)
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Progress to date [2]
• Integration progress– Helping Endeavor set up test SP for
Voyager/ENCompass system (LSE Library mgmt systems)
– Initial work on writing Voyager/ENCompass portlets for uPortal
– Work in progress to make LSE Dspace repository ‘Shibbolised’
– LSE installation of SigNet 0.3 release (in progress)– Ongoing discussions on uPortal/Shibboleth
integration (through Internet2 team)
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Progress to date [3]
• Content licences– Initial scoping study on LSE Library e-resources
management and current e-licensing situation– Active participation in testing Meridian (new e-
resources mgmt system from Endeavor)– Active participation in major e-licensing initiatives
(e.g. the EDItEUR ‘ERMI / ONIX Licensing Terms Workshop’, 21 Apr 05)
– Work in progress to conduct a joint PERSEUS / NEREUS study about current e-resources access terms and conditions
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Progress to date [4]
• Dissemination & publicity– Public website (www.angel.ac.uk/PERSEUS/)– Monthly update reports for stakeholders & associate
partners– LSE Library Foyer exhibition – Presentations at relevant UK and international
events (e.g. EuroCAMP, I2MM, UKSG, UCISA)– Publications
• ‘Installing Shibboleth’ in Ariadne (suggestions on improving Shibboleth installation experience)
• Articles in Assignation, New Review of Information Networking
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Some challenges
• Slow progress with Signet/PERMIS developments
• Difficulties with uPortal integration – (at heart I’m this sort of engineer, but sometimes
we’re forced to be this sort)
• A need for a central (UK) database of standard licences for major suppliers that reflects Shib-usable (eduPerson) attributes
• Devising ways to engage with Alumni groups
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Contact details
Email: [email protected]
www.angel.ac.uk/PERSEUS