From August 1st 2011 the UK Access Management Federation will be operated on behalf of JISC by a partnership of JISC Collections and EDINA, assuming the role of federation operator from JANET(UK).
The workshop on 14th July will be an opportunity for publishers and service providers to hear about how JISC Collections and EDINA will operate the Federation. The workshop will detail how publishers can engage with the Federation to improve discovery and use of their resources. JISC Collections and EDINA staff will be on hand to provide an opportunity for feedback to JISC Collections on Federation and access management issues.
Further information
The workshop is free to attend, will include lunch and is aimed at all publishers and service providers regardless of whether they are currently members of the UK Access Management Federation or have JISC Collections agreements.
Timing: 14th July, 11am-2.30pm
Location: Brettenham House, London
To sign up for the workshop please enter you details here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UKAMFbriefing
For further information on the workshop please contact Mark Williams:
m.williams@jisc-collections.ac.uk
More information on the Embedded Discovery Service (EDS) which aims to provide a consistent user experience for the discovery part of Single Sign On (SSO) can be found here:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/EDS10/Embedded+Discovery+Service
