Research and scholarship activities extend beyond the boundaries of the campus and increasingly so do the applications that support collaboration. Your campus can leverage your federated identity management system to allow faculty and researchers to instantly access participating research collaboration services.
Certification for the Research and Scholarship (R&S) Category is a straightforward process involving you, your institution, and InCommon.:
- You ensure Ensure that your SP or IdP meets the requirements set forth in the REFEDS Research and Scholarship Entity Category definition and the InCommon Federation Participation Agreement (Section 9, in particular). In brief, the primary requirements areyou will need to:
- For an IdP
- The institution operating the IdP agrees to transmit the following information, upon request, to SPs that have been certified for the R&S Category: shared user identifier, person name, email address, and (optionally) affiliation. See Research and Scholarship IdP Config for information on how to configure your IdP to do this.
- As descried in Research and Scholarship IdP Config, make a one-time change to your IdP's attribute release policy to release a user identifier and basic information (name, email, and optionally affiliation) about each faculty member and researcher.
- For an SP
- Ensure the
- The service enhances the research and scholarship activities of some subset of the user community.
- Service metadata has been submitted to the registrar for publication.
- The Ensure the service complies with specific technical requirements addressing issues of security and operational maturity.
- See See InCommon's Research and Scholarship Entity Category page for more information and the complete set of requirements for both IdPs and SPs. The application forms linked below are make good checklists for what you need to do to comply.
- For an IdP
- You complete Complete an online application form. There are different forms for IdPs and SPs:
InCommon
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will review your application and then generate a metadata update for your IdP or SP.
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Your site administrator then approves the metadata update, and the process is complete
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