Whitepaper der ZKI AG edu-ID zur Verortung des Konzepts einer edu-ID in der aktuellen Landschaft digitaler Identitäten in Deutschland und Europa

Ziel dieses Dokuments ist die Einordnung des edu-ID-Konzepts gegenüber anderen Initiativen, Projekten und den jeweiligen Konzepten digitaler Identitäten. Hierbei geht es nicht alleine um die Abgrenzung gegenüber solchen Konzepten, sondern auch um die Identifizierung von Anknüpfungspunkten und möglichen Synergien. Ausgehend von dieser Positionierung werden in einem weiteren Schritt Empfehlungen zu Funktionsumfang, Reichweite und Zielgruppen eines zukünftigen auf dem edu-ID Konzept basierenden Dienstes erarbeitet. Weiterhin werden Überlegungen zum weiteren Vorgehen bei der Entwicklung des Dienstes angestellt

Scalable Negotiator for a Community Trust Framework in Federated Infrastructures (Snctfi)

This paper identifies operational and policy requirements to help establish trust between an Infrastructure and identity providers either in an R&E Federation or in another Infrastructure, in each case joined via a Service Provider to Identity Provider proxy

Assessing digital preservation frameworks : the approach of the SHAMAN projectapproach of the SHAMAN project

How can we deliver infrastructure capable of supporting the preservation of digital objects, as well as the services that can be applied to those digital objects, in ways that future unknown systems will understand? A critical problem in developing systems is the process of validating whether the delivered solution effectively reflects the validated requirements. This is a challenge also for the EU-funded SHAMAN project, which aims to develop an integrated preservation framework using grid-technologies for distributed networks of digital preservation systems, for managing the storage, access, presentation, and manipulation of digital objects over time. Recognising this, the project team ensured that alongside the user requirements an assessment framework was developed. This paper presents the assessment of the SHAMAN demonstrators for the memory institution, industrial design and engineering and eScience domains, from the point of view of user’s needs and fitness for purpose. An innovative synergistic use of TRAC criteria, DRAMBORA risk registry and mitigation strategies, iRODS rules and information system models requirements has been designed, with the underlying goal to define associated policies, rules and state information, and make them wherever possible machine-encodable and enforceable. The described assessment framework can be valuable not only for the implementers of this project preservation framework, but for the wider digital preservation community, because it provides a holistic approach to assessing and validating the preservation of digital libraries, digital repositories and data centres

TextGrid and eHumanities

TextGrid is a new Grid project in the framework of the German D-Grid initiative, with the aim to deploy Grid technologies for humanities scholars working on historical (German) texts. Its two roots, humanities computing and eScience (Grid computing used by research together with modern communication technologies), are the basis for TextGrid to provide pioneer work in eHumanities. After summarizing Humanities Computing and modern network technologies, community expectations in the fields of philological edition and other application areas are set forth, from which functional requirements such as modularity, distribution, etc. are distilled. The first version of the TextGrid architecture was designed in accordance with these requirements, and focuses on openness by standard conformance and encapsulation. It provides storage Grid services via a pure Web Services interface to dedicated Web Services tools for different aspects of text processing, analysis and retrieval. This platform aims to provide easily usable tools for scholars, but also specifies interfaces for external program developers to add functionality. 1

Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze im Umgang mit elektronischen Identitätsnachweisen im Hochschulumfeld

Entstanden im Rahmen der Initiative Big Picture – einem hochschul- und bundesländerüber-greifenden Gemeinschaftsvorhaben zur Umsetzung des Onlinezugangsgesetzes im Themen-feld Bildung, Lebenslage Studium. Das Vorhaben wurde initiiert durch die Universität Duis-burg-Essen mit Unterstützung der KDU.NRW im Rahmen der Digitalisierungsoffensive NRW