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[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InCommon News
June 1, 2009

In This Issue:
* InCommon News
* New participants
* InCommon Future Group Update
* NSF Joins InCommon
* New Sponsored Partners
* Silver Plans Move Forward

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New Participants Since Mid-April 2009

As of June 8, 2009, InCommon has 150 participants, including 106 higher 
education organizations; six government and nonprofit laboratories, research 
centers and agencies; and 38 sponsored partners.

New participants since mid-April are:

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona  www.csupomona.edu
California State University, Monterey Bay  www.csumb.edu
Humboldt State University  www.humboldt.edu
Louisiana State University  www.lsu.edu
Sonoma State University  www.sonoma.edu
Wake Tech Community College  www.waketech.edu
Washington University  www.wustl.edu

Blatant Media Corporation  www.blatant.ca
The H.W. Wilson Company  www.hwwilson.com
Learn.com  www.learn.com
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction www.ncpublicschools.org

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InCommon Future Update

The InCommon Future group presented its draft report at the Internet2 2009 
Spring Member Meeting and is on track to deliver a final report in time for 
the July Internet2 board meeting. The group is charged with developing a 
three-year plan to address the InCommon Federation’s scope, services, and 
finances. With a doubling of the number of participants since 2007, the 
InCommon leadership seeks to ensure the federation has the necessary 
governance structure and resources to support this continued growth. The 
draft report is available on the InCommon Collaborate wiki: 
https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/y4E0.

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New Sponsored Partners

Blatant Media Corporation – Blatant Media licenses Absorb Learning Management 
System (SCORM LMS) to organizations and training providers for tracking of 
online, classroom and practical training. Blatant Media instructional design 
and development teams have produced hundreds of hours of interactive 
multimedia based training for emergency services, government and healthcare, 
manufacturing and oil and gas industries. Blatant Media is headquartered in 
Calgary, Alberta.

Learn.com – Learn.com technology allows training departments to quickly and 
easily meet complex compliance, certification, and training requirements. HR 
departments can automate all of their talent management functions with one 
integrated platform. Sophisticated performance management functionality is 
built in, so employee performance can be measured, managed, and improved in 
one system. 

The H.W. Wilson Company – H.W. Wilson operates 64 reference databases, 
including a periodicals database with full text, page images, abstracts, and 
indexing of thousands of leading magazines and journals. The company’s Wilson 
Core Collections support collection development in children’s, school and 
public libraries. The company also offers biography databases, an art museum 
image gallery, and other database services.

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has joined as part of a 
K-20 pilot underway in the state.

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NSF Joins InCommon

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently joined the InCommon Federation 
to provide NSF's research and education community simpler and easier access 
to online services, including Research.gov and FastLane. See the NSF press 
release:
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114888&org=NSF&from=news

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Additional Assurance Profiles Coming 

Plans continue to roll out the InCommon Silver Assurance Profile in late 
2009. Silver will provide stronger identity management procedures for 
federated applications requiring additional security. A pilot group of 
universities and the National Institutes for Health have begun working 
through the technical implementation requirements.

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