{"id":608,"date":"2009-11-24T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T11:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2009\/11\/group-management\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T22:51:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T21:51:41","slug":"group-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2009\/11\/group-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This session from Caleb Racey and Richard James from Newcastle University.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FAM requires attributes. For example, if you want to offer resources to (for e.g.) a member of the medical faculty &#8211; you need to know which users these are. <\/li>\n<li>At Newcastle the systems Grouper and Talend provide this <\/li>\n<li>Federated identity is a subset of campus identity <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Data management is the key to access control:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>User identity <\/li>\n<li>Unit (granularity) of access contorl\n<ul>\n<li>Department membership <\/li>\n<li>Module enrolment <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Identity data is aggregated from several different sources\/systems across the University. <\/p>\n<p>What is &#8216;Grouper&#8217;?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Toolkit to manage institutional and personal groups <\/li>\n<li>Collaborative project from internet2 <\/li>\n<li>API for managing groups <\/li>\n<li>UI + web services + shel interfaces to access API <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internet2.edu\/grouper\/\">http:\/\/www.internet2.edu\/grouper\/<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Newcastle use Grouper to provide access control to different resources &#8211; wikis, lecture capture system, room book system. They populate Grouper with the institutional <\/p>\n<p>Grouper has a user-facing interface &#8211; gives control to the user, enables local teams to manage memberships of groups etc. Grouper then releases it&#8217;s &#8216;&#8221;Groups&#8221; to Shibboleth as attributes.<\/p>\n<p>Talend is used to structure the data before import into Grouper &#8211; there are more details at <a href=\"http:\/\/research.ncl.ac.uk\/idmaps\/videos.php\">http:\/\/research.ncl.ac.uk\/idmaps\/videos.php<\/a><\/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:c846efef-9039-4771-b923-b785e3816f71\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">IceRocket Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.icerocket.com\/search?q=fam09\" rel=\"tag\">fam09<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This session from Caleb Racey and Richard James from Newcastle University. FAM requires attributes. For example, if you want to offer resources to (for e.g.) a member of the medical faculty &#8211; you need to know which users these are. At Newcastle the systems Grouper and Talend provide this Federated identity is a subset of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fam09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}