A workshop at the OAI5 conference in April 2007 identified a need for improved attribute managed federated access to repositories, and produced a set of requirements. The Federated Access to Repositories (FAR) project would take up this list, and use it to: • Create recommendations for attributes to describe authorisation to repositories; where appropriate, • these recommendations will be passed to relevant standards groups • Develop extensions to the repository software (EPrints and DSpace) so that it can be used with • Shibboleth and meet these requirements (building on earlier work where this exists) • Test existing work integrating Shibboleth and Fedora and recommend to developers what will be • needed to meet these requirements • Install demonstration repositories to show how this can work in practice • Feed the modifications and full documentation into the appropriate repository software development • process to ensure maintenance through future releases of Eprints and Shibboleth • Develop procedures to consider ways of extending federated access management to new • functionality introduced into the repository software products following the conclusion of the project A demonstrator of the software will be produced as well as a final version.

Federated Access to Repositories (FAR)


Start date: 1 November 2007

End date: 31 July 2008

Funding programme: Repositories and Preservation programme

Project website: http://www.angel.ac.uk/FAR

JISC theme(s): Information environment, Access management

Committees: JISC Integrated Information Environment committee

Overview

A workshop at the OAI5 conference in April 2007 identified a need for improved attribute managed federated access to repositories, and produced a set of requirements. The Federated Access to Repositories (FAR) project would take up this list, and use it to:

  • Create recommendations for attributes to describe authorisation to repositories; where appropriate, these recommendations will be passed to relevant standards groups
  • Develop extensions to the repository software (EPrints and DSpace) so that it can be used with Shibboleth and meet these requirements (building on earlier work where this exists)
  • Test existing work integrating Shibboleth and Fedora and recommend to developers what will be needed to meet these requirements
  • Install demonstration repositories to show how this can work in practice
  • Feed the modifications and full documentation into the appropriate repository software development process to ensure maintenance through future releases of Eprints and Shibboleth
  • Develop procedures to consider ways of extending federated access management to new functionality introduced into the repository software products following the conclusion of the project

A demonstrator of the software will be produced as well as a final version.

project staff

  • John Paschoud, Infosystems Engineer and Projects Manager  j.paschoud@lse.ac.uk
  • Library, London School of Economics & Political Science, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD, 020 7955 6129
  • Last updated on 09/01/09 by Lisa Clifford