Defining Use Cases for Federating Library Services

["T. Howell" <>]

"The basic use case for EZProxy integrated with Shibboleth involves a flow
for interaction between a user and a Library website containing a listing of
various web accessed resources and services, such as, but not limited to,
various e-journals and research databases. This website uses the EZProxy
application to proxy authorized access for users of the library thus
allowing them to utilize resources and services. 
 
Users are intended to be able to login via some mechanism to authenticate
themselves to a group with certain pre-defined authorization privileges
based on a variety of attributes possibly associated with the user.
The most basic grouping is an authorized patron or member of the community,
which may be construed as including but not limited to staff, faculty,
alumni and other groups. 
 
The browser user has a variety of possible starting points within the
website that may take them to the external resource provider directly or
which mediates via EZProxy. The threshold trigger for the event occurs when
the interaction flow results in an attempt to access restricted resource."


Hello Everyone,

Please edit the above and with luck we will have at least this to present on
Friday. If you feel I have left any valuable information out in my rewriting
of the breakdown version of the use case please let me know. Thanks for all
of your assistance!


Sincerely;
Thomas Howell.