New members of the UK federation

Posted on Wednesday, 27 June 2007

The following members have joined the UK federation in the past two days:

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New members of the UK federation

Posted on Wednesday, 20 June 2007

The following organisations have joined the UK federation during the past week:

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The UK Federation, Shibboleth and Microsoft Windows

Posted on Wednesday, 13 June 2007

The UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research uses the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standards for the communication of authentication, entitlement and attribute information between member organisations. The SAML standards can be used in many different ways, allowing the implementation of different types of federated communities.

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University of Bath

Posted on Monday, 11 June 2007

The University of Bath has joined the UK federation.

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TAG Learning Limited

Posted on Thursday, 7 June 2007

TAG Learning Limited has joined the UK federation. Edited by SteveGlover

New federation members

Posted on Wednesday, 6 June 2007

Chesterfield College and Service Birmingham Limited have joined the UK federation. Edited by SteveGlover

Federation Gateway Services

Posted on Monday, 4 June 2007

Posted by Nicole Harris, on the JISC Access Management Team Blog, on 16th May 2007

One of the unique issues facing the UK adoption of the SAML standard through the UK Access Management Federation is to ensure that the UK education community continues to be able to access Athens resources. To support this requirement, JISC has funded Eduserv to develop and maintain two gateways to the UK federation. These gateways are known as the Federation Gateway Services.

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University of Wales Institute, Cardiff

Posted on Friday, 1 June 2007

The University of Wales Institute, Cardiff has just joined the UK federation. Edited by SteveGlover

UK federation technical documents revised

Posted on Friday, 1 June 2007

New versions of two of the technical reference documents for the UK federation were published today:

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Ovid Gateway and SilverPlatter available

Posted on Friday, 1 June 2007

Ovid is pleased to announce that both of their precision search and discovery platforms, Ovid Gateway and SilverPlatter, are now Shibboleth compliant.

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Elsevier B.V.

Posted on Friday, 1 June 2007

Elsevier B.V. has just joined the UK federation. Edited by SteveGlover