SURFconext, Showcasing a New Collaboration Paradigm

Paul van Dijk Product Manager SURFnetPaul van Dijk, Product Manager SURFnet

Higher Education & Research in NL

- Hybrid end-to-end Network

- AuthN Federation (N=160)

- Provide access to the best possible Online Collaboration Solutions

Users are Choosers…

Ways to deal with cloud solutions

Guidance in choices

Best practices

Basic integration

NeedsDoubt, temporisation, loss of control

Abundance of available tools

Confidentiality,Security, portability

Tools, concepts methods available?

Barriers

Solution(s)

Cloud seminars, whitepapers and reference implementationsOverview of tools (by category/audience)Basic Infra

1. Federation SAML

2. SURFteams (grouper)

3. OpenSocial

4. Collaboration tools

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Combining existing components and open standards

OpenSocial RestOAuth

SAML2 SP SAML2 Metadata

Grouper

SAML2

JANUS

Portal

Virtual Organizations

Attribute Management

OpenSocialRest

TBD

TBD

Federatie

Service Provider

IdPoa. SAML2

Single Sign-On

Collaboration Context & AuthZ

OpenSocial Portal & Gadgets

- Use of Web Standards (HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML)

- Standard specification by OpenSocial Foundation

- Aim: integration of multi vendor apps in one portal

OpenSocial & Mobiel

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Institutional Portalinternal/external apps

Native Interfaces

Supporting Services• SURFfederatie• SURFteams• OpenSocial

Licenses & Contract Management

SURFdiensten: Licentie- en

Contractmanagement

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challengesahead

OpenSource: www.OpenConext.org

Sourcecode: Apache License, v2.0

Content: CC “Attr. 3.0 Unported”

Portal

Engine Block

OpenSocial Container

Platform Management interface

paul.vandijk@surfnet.nl User: paulcwvandijk

Infowww.surfconext.nlwww.wiki.surfnetlabs.nl

Opensocial for the Enterprisewww.opensocial.org

SURFconext componentswww.openconext.org

Apache Rave Incubator (portal)incubator.apache.org/rave/