athens building communities ed zedlewski & lyn norris uksg, warwick, april 2002
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Athens
Building Communities
Ed Zedlewski & Lyn Norris
UKSG, Warwick, April 2002
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Outline
• Athens today
• Access Management Systems & communities
• New developments
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Athens today
• Delivers user:
– Authentication
– Authorisation
– Administration and audit
• De facto standard
– In use throughout HE/FE
– Active roll out across NHS
• User profiling, bulk registration and SSO
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Usage
• 1.8m users in HE/FE
– All HE institutions
– 200+ FE colleges
– 50 DSP’s delivering over 200 online services
• Parallel service for NHS sector
– 200+ NHS trusts
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Statistics
• 150+ daily bulk uploads
• Average 40+ subscribers per resource
• Over 4 years of non-stop authentication service
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Forthcoming DSP’s
• Elsevier – ScienceDirect
• Wiley
• Swets
• Census data
• New DSP’s every week
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Athens SSO
• What is SSO and how is it different from Athens?
– Login once – get access to all authorised services
– Requires latest v3.5 Athens agent
• Most DSP’s have either implemented SSO Agent or plan to implement during 2002
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How does SSO work?
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The need for communities
• UK Government desires a break down of the boundaries in education
• Greater efficiency of service delivery
• Greater integration with campus services
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Communities
• Communities have common needs
– Users need a common support infrastructure
– DSP’s need common delivery systems
– Education, health, library communities need to interact
• Athens is middleware that:
– Facilitates accessibility
– Draws users together
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User communities
• Libraries need to deliver services to users
– On and off campus
– Distance learners
• Face new challenges of delivering integrated courseware systems and MLE’s
• Integration with student registration and enrolment, MIS and back office systems
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User communities …
• Access to external services and content
• Increasing interaction between organisations
– Collaborative projects/services
– Greater student mobility
• All these services need common middleware
• Common community-wide user identities
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Data Service Providers (DSP)
• Need to deliver cost effective products through:– Access to well defined subscriber communities– Common infrastructure for service delivery– Users identified in a consistent manner, delivering:
• Reduced maintenance costs• Ease of product marketing and support
• Ever increasing delivery of personalised services• Support for transactional services
• Pay per view• User personalised services
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What is the role of an AMS
• User management and profiling services
• Session and concurrency management
• Support for distributed user authentication
• Access tools/API’s to enable integration of the full range of back office systems
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New developments in Athens
• AthensDA (Devolved Authentication)
• Improved user management
• Improved service management for DSP’s
• Certificate based authentication
• Integrated e-business services
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LocalComputingLibrary
System
PersonnelStudent Registry
Institution
Athens DatabaseDirectory
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User Browser DSP service
Athens Authentication Point
LocalComputingLibrary
System
PersonnelStudent Registry
Institution
Athens DatabaseDirectory
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User Browser DSP service
Athens Authentication Point
LocalComputingLibrary
System
PersonnelStudent Registry
Institution
Athens DatabaseDirectory
Certificate Authority
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Commercial PortalsCommercial PortalsFor example:For example:
YahooYahooContent sitesContent sites
PortalsPortalsFor example:For example:
MLE’sMLE’sMyAthensMyAthens
ApplicationsApplicationsFor example:For example:
Web browserWeb browser
..
Front OfficeFront Office
Middle OfficeMiddle Office
MiddlewareMiddleware
InternetInternet
TransactionTransactionEngineEngine
Payments:Payments:Credit CardCredit Card
Pre-payPre-pay..
Back OfficeBack Office
Internet or IntranetInternet or Intranet
MISMIS
dbdb
StudentStudent
dbdb
registrationregistrationLibraryLibrary
dbdb
DSPDSP
Content servicesContent services & Portals& Portals
RegistrationRegistrationand Enrolmentand Enrolment
DataData
Secure MailSecure Mail
PolicyPolicyEngineEngine Pay per viewPay per view
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The future
• For UK education Athens will develop in line with JISC needs
• International interest continues to grow
• Athens is developing new services inline with International standards
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Athens contacts
• Email:
• Web:
www.athensams.net
• Tel:
+44 (0)1225 474333
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Any questions?