December 2011
In This Issue
- Populate Those Metadata Elements
- OARnet Develops Common Agreement for Ohio Schools
- New Certificate Service Subscribers
- Speaking of Certificates, Kudos to Northwestern
- New Participants in November
Populate Those Metadata Elements
Thanks to everyone who has filled in the new metadata elements — these allow us to generate some spiffy dynamic web pages with expanded information about identity providers and service providers. This will allow for easier searching, for example, to determine what services are currently available via the federation.
Please make sure your organization provides these new elements, particularly if you offer service providers. For examples, check out the page for the University of Iowa identity provider, and the page for the CILogon service provider.
Also, there's a whole bunch of service providers that don't have display names in the metadata, which means they don't appear in the proper spot alphabetically (in fact, they show up as just a URL blob).
OARnet Develops Common Agreement for Ohio Schools
The Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet) has developed a standard InCommon participation agreement for all public universities and community colleges in the state. These Ohio colleges and universities can save the time and legal resources they would have spent vetting and negotiating individual contracts.
Recently, both PASSHE (the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education) and MEEC (the Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium) have signed such standard agreements for their states.
New Certificate Service Subscribers
Welcome to Michigan State University and Pepperdine University, to the InCommon Certificate Service, which now has 138 subscribers.
Speaking of Certificates,
Kudos to Northwestern
Northwestern has an excellent overview on how the certificate service operates on their campus, with a nice overview and specific instructions for departments...even a handy workflow graphic.
New Participants in November
We welcome these new participants to the InCommon community. As of the end of November, InCommon has 356 participants.
Higher Education
Research Organizations
Sponsored Partners
- Ripple Send (www.rrripple.com)
rrripple digital portfolios let you safely store, curate, and showcase everything you've done in school and in your career to help you tell your story. Using rrripple, you get a view into what accomplishments and achievements help differentiate you from the competition when applying to the school or job of your dreams.
About the Research Organizations
Managed by UT-Battelle, Oak Ridge National Laboratory was established in 1943 to support the Manhattan Project. From an early focus on chemical technology and reactor development, ORNL's portfolio broadened to include programs supporting U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) missions in scientific discovery and innovation, clean energy, and nuclear security. Today, as DOE's largest science and energy laboratory, ORNL applies signature strengths in neutron science and technology, materials science and engineering, computational science and engineering, and nuclear science and technology in conducting research and development for DOE and other customers, attacking the fundamental science challenges posed by DOE's missions and carrying out the translational work required to accelerate the delivery of solutions to the marketplace.
For more than 60 years, the Ames Laboratory has sought solutions to energy-related problems through the exploration of chemical, engineering, materials, mathematical and physical sciences. Established in the 1940s with the successful development of the most efficient process to produce high-quality uranium metal for atomic energy, the Lab now pursues a broad range of scientific priorities. Ames Laboratory is a government-owned, contractor-operated research facility of the U.S. Department of Energy that is run by Iowa State University.
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) is a group of scientists seeking to make the first direct detection of
gravitational waves, use them to explore the fundamental
physics of gravity, and develop the emerging field of
gravitational wave science as a tool of astronomical
discovery. The LSC works toward this goal through research
on, and development of techniques for, gravitational wave
detection; and the development, commissioning and
exploitation of gravitational wave detectors. More about LIGO
is available at http://www.ligo.org.
LIGO joined InCommon and plans to leverage federated identity to streamline collaboration with other astronomy and
astrophysics projects as well as make it easier for review
panel members, NSF program managers, and other collaborators
to access LIGO resources.
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