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- UK Access Management Federation (www.ukfederation.org.uk)
- JISC, the organization that funded the federation (www.jisc.ac.uk)
- Becta, an agency that advises the government on e-initiatives (www.becta.org.uk). The Becta site includes a presentation on federated access management: http://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=26408
. In addition, - Patrick Kirk's presentation about the schools in Leeds joining the UK federation also provides an excellent introduction to their use of Shibboleth (and federations):http://www.ja.net/services/events/calendar/2007/ukfederationbriefing/videos/UKfedpatrick/UKfedpatrick.html.
The UK federation has found little overlap in the content providers that serve the K-12 community and those that serve colleges and universities. Having said that, the issues for these content providers are likely to be the same. Larger publishers have more incentive to join federations because they have customer bases in many different countries and so using the same technology for access management which is based on international standards fits with their business case and strategies. However the smaller publishers have some of the same issues as the smaller institutions in that they don't have the financial or technical support to be able to implement federation-compliant technologies so the UK are currently looking for solutions to this problem. (See below).
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TheMidwest Higher Education Compact http://www.mhec.org(11 states) has a service in which high school students can provide higher education institutions with access to their transcripts (seehttp://www.mhec.org/index.asp?pageID=138.
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