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Spring Member Meeting Highlights
- Attendees heard about changes in the Identity Assurance Program (a.k.a. Bronze and Silver) intended to streamline the adoption process. Read a summary at: https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/NpKAAQ.
You can find the Assurance Program documents, the FAQ, and more information at https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/4SM
- User consent for attribute release was also a key topic. Attendees saw a demo of uApprove, a Shibboleth add-on to enable user consent, and heard about the potential of common attribute sets. The demo is available on the Policy Forum Netcast archive, starting at approximately 33:40 of the video. http://preview.tinyurl.com/3nbjh6b
- The Technical Forum included discussion of an administrative interface to create/maintain metadata, allowing an admin to use an attribute consuming service, including requested attributes and such user interface elements a display name, description, keywords, information URL, privacy statement URL, and a logo URS. Read the notes at https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/MJKAAQ.
- The Policy Forum included a review of InCommon goals for 2011, an update on the InCommon Certificate Service (client certificates available soon), and user consent for attribute release. Read the notes at: https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/LpKAAQ, or see the Netcast archive at: http://preview.tinyurl.com/3nbjh6b
- A track session provided an update and future plans for the Certificate Service, and perspectives from subscribers. See the Netcast archive at: http://preview.tinyurl.com/3ky5nrb
New Participants in March and April
InCommon welcomed nine new participants in March and April, bringing the total to 290.
Higher Education
- Ball State University (www.bsu.edu)
- Drexel University (www.drexel.edu)
- Lansing Community College (www.lcc.edu)
- Mayo Clinic (www.mayo.edu)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (www.rpi.edu)
- University of Montana (www.umt.edu)
- Vermont State Colleges (www.vsc.edu)
Sponsored Partners
- ARTstor (www.artstor.org)
- Institute for Advanced Study (www.ias.edu)
About ARTstor
ARTstor (www.artstor.org) provides 1.3 million digital images for educational and scholarly use, serving an increasingly broad range of disciplines and users at over 1,300 educational institutions in 42 countries. Its mission extends to the development of sophisticated software and services to enable greater ways of accessing visual materials online. ARTstor recently launched Shared Shelf, a web-based software service with cataloging tools, controlled vocabulary warehouse, digital asset management system, and web-publishing tools. ARTstor is also working with The Getty Research Institute and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University to create a Built Works Registry (BWR), a community-generated data resource for architectural works and the built environment.
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