Back on 6th March we had a really excellent McShib day up in Edinburgh. Despite the event being really good, the plane managed to break my laptop on the way home which means I don’t have the presentations or the saved hashtags for the event so this is just going to be about thoughts I … Read more
If you don’t have time to read all of this blog, I will jump straight to the chase! If you work in a library, we would love you to fill out this survey. If you are a researcher, we would love you to fill out this survey. Both will help direct an EU study that … Read more
Although it’s been a while since the software hit v1, today sees the formal press release for the RAPTOR project – so I thought it would be worth a quick update. RAPTOR is a usage statistics tool that you install locally. It basically reads authentication logs, and presents them back to you in a friendly … Read more
‘Business’ is often seen as a dirty word when talking about open solutions – whether that be open access, open data or for me open source software. It’s amazing that people always seem to think that the two things don’t go together…but of course for anything to survive in any practical sense, someone has to … Read more
Anyone who has worked with federations will be familiar with the term WAYF – Where are You From? This is the question you are asked so a service provider can identity which institution you are affiliated with. As a term it’s not so accurate – am I really ‘from’ King’s College? – but as a … Read more
This is one of those posts that could be a response to someone else’s post but got so long, it’s here. It’s my thoughts on a long chain of people thinking, which are most effectively summarised by Amber. I’m not going to rehash the conversations – the people that have gone before me have done … Read more
A lot of people have asked me why you can’t sue Unicorns. Here is the back story. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. ———————————————– One cold wintry day, two federati are talking about people making unreasonable demands as to what should be included in a policy statement: Federati1: I want federation operators to … Read more
This is the entire transcript of my FAM11 presentation that some of you have been mad enough to ask for. I hope you enjoy or ignore as appropriate! The slides are here if you would like to follow along. How can we create an identity economy for research and education? When I was asked to … Read more
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog piece – sorry, I’ve not had all that much to say of late! So I thought I would have a bit of a friday afternoon think and see if there was something loitering around in my brain. Lately work has been very process driven – the … Read more
I’ts been a pretty stressful time for me recently as I deal with an unexpected house move, so it takes something really interesting to grab my attention away from boxes and clutter at the weekends. This weekend, DevXS managed to do exactly that. DevXS was a simple but lovely idea – what would happen if … Read more