{"id":607,"date":"2009-11-24T12:22:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T11:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2009\/11\/fam09-day-2\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T22:51:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T21:51:41","slug":"fam09-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2009\/11\/fam09-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FAM09 &ndash; Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening the second day is Mark Tysom talking about the UK federation.<\/p>\n<p>There are now 765 members of the UK federation, which has now been operating for 3 years. They now have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>74% of UK FE institutions <\/li>\n<li>100% of UK HE institutions <\/li>\n<li>57% of schools in England <\/li>\n<li>100% of schools in Northern Ireland and Scotland <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this context &#8216;signup&#8217; just means that they have agreed to the Federation rules &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t mean they are actively participating in the Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Service Enhancements coming:<\/p>\n<p>Details at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukfederation.org.uk\/content\/Documents\/DevelopmentRoadMap\">http:\/\/www.ukfederation.org.uk\/content\/Documents\/DevelopmentRoadMap<\/a>. Today Mark is going to look at the next 6 months or so:<\/p>\n<p><strong>WAYF Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide and independent review of the current WAYF login processes <\/li>\n<li>Improve the usability and accessibility for all users and enhance the user experience <\/li>\n<li>Conduct user tests with a series of sites to assess the usability of the WAYF interface <\/li>\n<li>Identify any other direct enhancements to be made <\/li>\n<li>Provide prioritised recommendations for next steps and future development by end July 2010 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They have engaged an external company to assess usability of the WAYF, getting evidence from talking to users, and observing how they interact with WAYFs\/login. Clearly some crossover with studies such as Publisher Interface study &#8211; so they are sharing the outcomes of the study with these other projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Portal Best Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WAYF is a &#8216;backstop&#8217; solution &#8211; i.e. not the preference. The UK Federation encourage the development of &#8216;portals&#8217; &#8211; I&#8217;m not quite clear who they think will develop these &#8216;portals&#8217; and why users will actually come to resources via portals &#8211; this just seems like a backward looking idea to me? Perhaps I&#8217;ve misunderstood?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some clarfication on questioning &#8211; it seems that in this sense they mean the UK Federation WAYF as opposed to WAYF as a process generally.<\/strong> I think it is key we assume that users will hit resources from the open web rather than via a system controlled by the library or institution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Statistics Gathering<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide mechanisms to all the operatiors of IdPs and the federation to visualise how the service is being used <\/li>\n<li>Provide mechanism to populat an anonymous central database that can store usage data for these services <\/li>\n<li>Review existing mechanisms for gathering federation metrics <\/li>\n<li>Incorporate solution into the JANET Netsight2 Service <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mark also mentioned they would be looking at <strong>Metadata scaling<\/strong> and running a <strong>Satisfaction Survey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now Mark mentioning a couple of policy areas they are going to be looking at &#8211; <strong>Inter-federation agreements<\/strong> and <strong>Eligibility<\/strong> for membership &#8211; the latter looking at interest from other sectors such as NHS, Governments, Museums.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8aaec028-6335-42f2-a492-28431f558834\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">IceRocket Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.icerocket.com\/search?q=fam09\" rel=\"tag\">fam09<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening the second day is Mark Tysom talking about the UK federation. 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