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Does your Identity Provider support the Research & Scholarship Category of services in the InCommon Federation? If so, read on to find out how to Migrate to Global Research & Scholarship. If your Identity Provider does not yet support the Research & Scholarship category, the following section will show you how.

Support Research & Scholarship

An IdP that supports the Research & Scholarship (R&S) category automatically releases the R&S Attribute Bundle to R&S SPs, that is, SPs tagged with the R&S entity attribute. These SPs have been vetted by InCommon to meet the requirements of R&S.

To support the R&S category, an IdP operator has at least two configuration options:

  1. Release the R&S attribute bundle to all R&S SPs, including R&S SPs in other federations

  2. Release the R&S attribute bundle to R&S SPs registered by InCommon only

All that’s required is a one-time change to your IdP’s attribute release policy. For more info about R&S, visit our wiki: Research and Scholarship for IdPs

The R&S category benefits all organizations, even those organizations whose primary mission is not research. The R&S category includes generally useful collaborative services (such as wikis and file sharing services) that benefit all users, including students, faculty, and staff at small colleges and universities.

Migrate to Global Research & Scholarship

Today more than 100 InCommon IdPs support the Research & Scholarship (R&S) category. If your IdP supports R&S, we invite you to migrate to global R&S, that is, release attributes to all R&S SPs, including R&S SPs in other federations.

An IdP that releases attributes to all R&S SPs will be among the first group of InCommon IdPs whose metadata is exported to eduGAIN, a metadata aggregation service that enables interfederation.

To migrate an existing R&S IdP to global R&S, the IdP operator makes a small, one-time change to their IdP configuration to recognize the refeds.org R&S entity attribute value. Since all R&S SPs (in all federations) meet the requirements of the REFEDS R&S Entity Category specification, an IdP configured to recognize the refeds.org R&S tag will release attributes to all R&S SPs, including R&S SPs in other federations.

NOTE: If you are unable to support global R&S at this time, we strongly encourage you to migrate away from the legacy incommon.org R&S entity attribute value, the use of which is deprecated. Eventually this entity attribute value will be removed from SP metadata. See the wiki topic linked below for more information.

For more info about global R&S, visit our wiki: Migrating an IdP to Global Research and Scholarship

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