Research & Scholarship for Service Providers
Browse a list of all current R&S SPs and IdPs
By now you’ve probably heard about the Research & Scholarship (R&S) Category and naturally your first question is: Is my service eligible for R&S? The best way to gauge an answer to that question is to browse the official list of R&S SPs. There you will find:
- institutional wikis (including the Internet2 Spaces wiki)
- collaboration tools for faculty, staff, and researchers
- data sharing and management tools
- credential translation and management tools
- collaboration services for NSF-funded research projects
- collaboration services for international e-science communities
- learning platforms for research and education
- cloud computing and storage services for scientists
- network monitoring and analysis tools
[Apply for R&S] now!
If your service overlaps with the above list of Research & Scholarship services, we encourage you to apply for R&S. Here’s a sequence of steps that will get you there:
- Browse the official list of R&S SPs and IdPs
- Review the [R&S Application Form]
- Read the authoritative Research & Scholarship Entity Category specification
- Read the InCommon Participation Agreement, especially section 9 of that document, which deals with privacy
- Review the Deployment Considerations for R&S SPs document
- Review your entity info page for consistency, clarity, and completeness
- Talk to your Site Administrator about becoming a Delegated Administrator of your service metadata
- Update your metadata (or have your metadata updated) as needed
- Submit the [R&S Application Form]
If you have questions about R&S, contact InCommon Admin at admin@incommon.org
Requirements for R&S Service Providers
By definition, a Research & Scholarship service enhances the research and scholarship activities of some subset of the InCommon community. See the REFEDS specification of the Research & Scholarship Entity Category for a precise definition:
Candidates for the Research and Scholarship (R&S) Category are Service Providers that support research and scholarship interaction, collaboration or management as an essential component.
R&S Service Providers must meet the following technical requirements:
- Service metadata must be submitted to InCommon and published in a human-readable format on the InCommon public web site.
- The Service Provider refreshes and verifies metadata at least daily.
- The Service Provider is a production SAML deployment that supports the SAML V2.0 HTTP-POST binding (one of numerous SAML V2.0 endpoints in metadata).
- The Service Provider provides both an MDUI
DisplayName
and an MDUIInformationURL
, two User Interface Elements in metadata. - The Service Provider provides both Technical and Administrative contacts in metadata.
- The Service Provider provides requested attributes in metadata. (It is highly RECOMMENDED that the requested attributes in metadata be a subset of the R&S attribute bundle, otherwise a bilateral agreement with each IdP may be required.)
R&S Service Providers must also meet the following privacy requirements:
- The Service Provider requests only those attributes required to operate the service.
- The Service Provider will not use attributes for purposes that fall outside of the service definition.
R&S Service Providers must resolve issues of non-compliance within a reasonable period of time from when they become aware of the issue. Failure to do so may result in revocation of their membership in the R&S category.