InC-Library - Phase 2 - Piloting Technology Approaches

New - Best Practices and Resource Registry in Draft

The Phase 2 Vendor Subgroup has produced two documents, in draft form, for community review and comment.

Best Practices: documents best practices for resource providers and libraries.

Registry of Resources: Information about resources that we have contacted and are in various stages of Shibboleth-compliance.  The intent is to provide a checklist for vendors for Shibboleth implementation, and to provide implementation details to universities who would like to integrate with Shibboleth-enabled resources.

We invite your review and your comments.

Background for Phase 2 Participants

Phase 2 of the collaboration will involve IdPs that are implementing Shibboleth and/or the Shibboleth/EZProxy combination for access to protected library resources.

Read this brief summary of the issues considered by Phase 1, including answers to these questions:

• Why should I implement the Shibboleth-enabled rewrite proxy?
• Why should I provide access to Shibboleth-enabled vendors with the rewrite proxy?
• If I have a Shib-enabled rewrite proxy, why access resources though Shib?
• Bullet list of use cases
• Bullet list of barriers to adoption
• Recommendation for focusing outreach efforts

Read about the work done during Phase 1.

See the notes from the conference calls.

Use cases contributed by the community.

List of top-10 outside vendors.