[ESIP-all] BESSIG meeting: Mon, 8/31, 4:00, Gondolier, 'Internet Identity'
Anne Wilson
anne.wilson at lasp.colorado.edu
Mon Aug 24 19:44:10 EDT 2015
Hi ESIP,
If you're lucky enough to be in Boulder next Monday, stop on by our
Boulder Earth and Space Science Informatics Group meeting. Our speaker
will be Ken Klingenstein from Internet2 presenting:
Leveraging Internet Identity for Scientific Collaborations
"In the last several years there has been rapid development of an
identity layer for the Internet. Efforts in government, R&E, businesses
and among social identity providers are creating an infrastructure of
identity and attributes that is being leveraged to access
supercomputers, social sites, health care providers, federal research
agencies, instrumentation and databases, cloud based storage and compute
services, etc.
The two major areas in this work are federated identity, which allows
local identities, authentication and attributes to be used
Internet-wide, and collaboration platforms, which allow virtual
organizations and other multi-institutional efforts to build on
federated identity and seamlessly use a growing pool of collaboration
applications (wikis, listservs, file sharing, code management tools,
command line apps, etc).
This talk will discuss the current state of federated identity,
including international inter-federation and US government activities,
and how federated identities are being used in leading-edge US science
communities. It will then present the emergence of collaboration
platforms, and their ability to integrate access control and group
management across collaboration applications using open standards. Demos
might happen; interruptions and comments most welcome."
A bit more information is available at the web site:
https://lasp.colorado.edu/galaxy/display/BESSIG/2015/08/24/BESSIG+Meeting+Monday%2C+August+31%2C+2015%2C+4%3A00+-+6%3A00%2C+Gondolier.
Anne
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