New Members since 21 December
Posted on Tuesday, 29 January 2008
The following organisations have joined the UK federation since 21 December:
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Federated access management: JISC announces changes to transition arrangements
Posted on Tuesday, 22 January 2008
As part of its transition programme for federated access management for UK education and research, JISC has been actively seeking an extension to the Federation Gateway Services contract with Eduserv which would allow Athens to work in the open standards environment of the UK Access Management Federation. Regretfully, we must announce that we have not managed to reach an affordable agreement for the provision of the service, and it will no longer form part of the JISC Services portfolio from 1st August 2008.
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Re-use of Persistent Identifiers
Posted on Monday, 14 January 2008
The UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research ('the federation') provides a mechanism for Service Providers to manage the risk of unauthorised disclosure of their content and of any information which they store about their users.
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Shibboleth on Windows - Call for Participation
Posted on Friday, 11 January 2008
JANET (UK) would like to invite JANET connected organisations to participate in the testing of a Shibboleth on Windows installer.
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EDINA Digimap available via the UK federation
Posted on Tuesday, 8 January 2008
EDINA Digimap, which celebrates its 8th birthday this week, is a collection of services delivering maps and map data of Great Britain to UK Higher and Further Education. The 100,000th Digimap OS service user was registered in December 2007.
However... Edited by SteveGlover