Library community to build on AARC ou...

1st April 2019 Written by Laura Durnford

A new initiative in federated identity management for libraries – FIM4L – was introduced for the first time at the CESNET e-Infrastructure Conference on 30 January 2019. The AARC Toolkit for Libraries was presented and the current state of federated identity management (FIM) implementation in the libraries community was revi [...]

AARC research communities share exper...

31st March 2019 Written by Laura Durnford

Published 26 February 2019 Research communities participating in AARC pilots presented their work to the FIM4R (Federated Identity Management for Research) community at a workshop on 11 February. FIM4R and AARC have a close relationship, with many participants in common. AARC has proved a useful forum for research communities and e-infrastruc [...]

AARC launches Policy Development Kit ...

30th March 2019 Written by Laura Durnford

Published 14 January 2019 Policy templates, guidelines, context videos and a glossary are available in a new ‘Policy Development Kit’ (PDK) that has been launched by the AARC project. The kit provides new or evolving Research Infrastructures with guidance on developing a complete policy suite to support Federated Identity Management and [...]

Enabling single sign-on across EOSC-h...

29th March 2019 Written by Laura Durnford

AARC has influenced the integration of the OpenAIRE AAI with the EOSC-hub AAI. The following article was originally posted by Ilaria Fava on the OpenAIRE website and was published here in 19 November 2018. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) aims to provide an Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI). The EOSC-hub and the Ope [...]

AARC reviews achievements and goals f...

28th March 2019 Written by Licia Florio

Published 8 June 2018 AARC strategy The second AARC project (AARC2) has been running for one year and has produced many outputs in line with its agreed strategy. AARC has established a de facto authentication and authorisation infrastructure (AAI) standard for research and education. By following the AARC Blueprint Architecture and policy mod [...]

Registration open for IAM Online webi...

26th March 2019 Written by Laura Durnford

On 18 April at 15:00-16:00 CEST, a live webinar will explain the final version of the BluePrint Architecture (BPA) that was developed within the AARC project. This webinar is aimed at Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) architects and technical decision makers for research collaborations. Connection via https://geant.zoom.us [...]