Subgroup Charge:

Develop a comprehensive list of use cases related to accessing information vendors from a variety of starting points, group them as appropriate and prioritize them.

Next meeting time and information

• Time: 15:00 EDT (14:00 CDT)
• Dates: May 22, May 29, June 5
• Dial-in numbers:
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  • PIN: 0140060#

Subgroup Members

Thomas Howell (Northwestern U) -- Chair
Andy Dale (OCLC)
Lynn Garrison (Penn State)
Paul Hill (MIT)
Barry Johnson (Clemson)
John Kiser (U of Penn)
Tim Mori (NC State)
Tod Olson (U of Chicago)
Heather Tones White (U of Saskatchewan)
Rich Wenger (MIT)

Additional Wiki Pages

• Meeting Notes
• Jabber Conversations
• Useful E-mails

Use Cases

Category 1: OCLC

• Walk In
• EZProxy - Authenticated User
• EZProxy - Authenticated User Future
• ER Librarian Workflow
• ER Librarian Workflow v2
• User not in primary authentication source
• Institution hosts an IdP in addition to the Primary Institutions IdP
• Direct to Vendor
• Seamless ILLiad

Category 2: Atlas

• Ares

Category 3: Ex Libris
note: We may be able to discuss Shibboleth implementation solely in terms of the PDS (patron directory service)

• PDS The PDS isn't a product per se, rather a service that supports multiple Ex Libris products.
• Primo
• Aleph
• Voyager
• Metalib
• SFX

Category 4: Various Vendors

• Internet2 Wiki

Category 5: User Types (User Profiles)

Category 6: License Cases

Category 7: Abstracted Library Authentication and Authorization Models

• We have mediating authentication/authorization application
• We have individual staff/back office access versus individual user/client/patron access
• Differentiated experiences for two groups of users because their grouping information/attributes have been exposed.
• Non-differentiated experiences for two groups because their grouping information/attributes have been hidden.

Category 8: Uncategorized Cases

• On phone or In person user verification
• User goes to external service (abstracts), does a search, finds a useful openlink hit, goes back to campus, goes directly to the referenced article. Do this from home to a Shibb enabled resource.
• Circe Dynex: Shibb enabling java app.
• Replacing existing Java applications which store user password tables in the clear (either DB or in file on the file system)
• Shibb enable staff user access in addition to patron users
• Instructor wants to add a deeplink to a course in an LMS system and we want the link to work no matter where the user happens to be. The link has to be durable from year to year.
• Blackboard
• An instructor chooses a list of books in the OPAC and then wants them to be automatically pushed into the eShelf of students so that they can view them while inside the LMS.
• Federated Search which returns results that a user is allowed to view.
• Federated Search which returns results that are based on facets related to a group (or other shibb attribute)
• Refworks
• Two seperate federations accessing the same SP
• Two seperate shibb enabled IDs, ie. I have campus credentials and I also have an account with the ALA or ACM
• How to link two identies?

Question: primary and tertiary sets of attributes, uApprove (developed by the Swiss federation), how does a users know which sites should be properly accessable to their Shibb account?, how does a user know the state of their various cookies as associated with their ID?