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At the moment our federation covers part of the Italian Universities (federated). Some universities, companies, visitors, citizens are not included.
ARIADNE
The user community of the ARIADNE project consists of archaeologists and other heritage professionals throughout Europe. The project aims at the integration of archaeological datasets and services. This consists mainly in two aspects:
- Resource discovery through a Registry. Users will search the registry and find the description of relevant distributed resources, to be accessed directly from the data provider. Data providers have different policies for access.
- Creation of integrated databases. This will be developed at experimental level for selected topics. The integrated database will be hosted by the project.
What is the current experience with AAI of your community?
Without federated access, resource discovery is cumbersome, as users are required to login at different services every time they want to access a resource. This limits the usefulness of the registry. There is no clear perception among partners about the utility of IdM. This is not part of the project original objectives. No resources are allocated to the task.
How to improve the penetration of AAI in your community?
In general, the organization is lacking in information about federated identity management. The best solution would be to demonstrate IdM in some pilot cases with a small group of partners and data providers.
Which type of Identity Providers are relevant for your community?
Their institutional IdP, part of national federations and eduGAIN. Non federated institutional IdPs, as well.
Could your community benefit from Scalable IdP attribute release policies?
Probably yes.
Do your community need persistent identifier for users ?
Yes.
Is the support for different level of assurance relevant for your use cases?
Yes, definitely.
How is the current coverage of IdP federations?
Although several partners use eduGAIN, this is not feasible for the larger user community because they may not belong to educational or research institutions. We expect a large number of homeless.
Other requirements
We suggest to develop a pilot use case with one/two project partner and then move to implementation with a larger base. Please note that the project will end in January 2017 so at least the pilot must be implemented by then.