Federated Access Management: Core Skills for Service Providers

10:00 Thursday 30 October - 16:15 Friday 31 October 2008
24 Eversholt Street,Euston House, London

There are FREE, JISC-funded places available on this workshop for publishers and JISC community institutions who are working within the UK federation (one place per organisation). See the booking form for details.

Federated Access Management (FAM) offers a secure, scalable and user friendly environment for organisations to manage web access to their resources. This two-day workshop, developed with JISC funding, addresses the core technical skills and practical steps required to act as a Service Provider (SP) within the UK Access Management Federation.

Participants will have the opportunity to see the systems working for real and examine the components that make them work - as well as exploring examples of current best practice. They should also leave able to make informed choices about how they can progress and aware of the expectations of the UK federation community, along with the support it can provide.

Topics:

What is Federated Access Management and what does it offer you?
The UK Access Management Federation - what it does and how to participate
Roles and responsibilities of both identity and service providers
A technical overview - skills, software and server environments
Installation and configuration of Shibboleth for service providers
Current Shibboleth versions and the UK federation
Managing attributes and user information
Delivering the user experience - discovery, personalisation and best practice
Support and federation community engagement

Who is it for?

This event is aimed primarily at those with a responsibility for technical implementation and ideally participants will need to be comfortable with the administration of computer systems and web applications. If participants are already involved in the delivery of existing web resources, then a working knowledge of their own infrastructure would be an advantage.

Non-systems staff, who choose to attend, should be able to gain an effective overview of the technical set-up required and how it fits in to an overall strategy for service provision within the UK Access Management Federation.

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The standard cost of attending this workshop is:

Education sector price: £450
Standard price: £550

The workshop fee includes lunch, plus morning and afternoon refreshments.

Free place offer

To be eligible for a free place, attendees must be from either:

an HE or FE institution that is currently a member of the UK federation
an organisation that can be identified as a publisher currently working towards federation compliance from the lists at: http://access.jiscinvolve.org/federated-access-and-publishers/.

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HE/FE instititions should use the code JISC-SP-INST
Publishers should use the code JISC-SP-PUB

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