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
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 think we are all quite accepting now of the fact that ‘the customer is always right’ has been replaced with ‘the computer is always right’. All around the world, companies are struggling to offer even basic customer services (I buy stuff, you send stuff) as confused ‘support’ staff battle to make computers do what … Read more
I couldn’t live blog Andrew Lyall’s session because it took me a long time to work out what the question was. Basically the ELIXIR project is shifting around huge amount of sensative clinical data and have issues with doing that. At the moment a lot of what they do is associated with anonymised data that … Read more
Several people on Twitter pointed to the new and shiny BBC Social Media Guidelines this week. It is something we have all seen grow up as social media sites have exploded in recent years and general the policies are well written and sensible, formulated around the key message – don’t do anything dumb. I agree … Read more
We’ve been spending quite a bit of time recently talking about the non-library usecase for the UK federation. After all, dealing with publishers all the time gets a bit wearisome for all of us 🙂 An established model in the US for sometime has been using the concept of federated login not to facilitate login, … Read more
How proud are you? How interested in your online reputation? When was the last time you googled yourself? Probably more recently that you’d like to admit, but we all do it! I am regretfully a poorly known Nicole Harris. My light is often eclipsed by an American gymnast (she must retire soon!) and an American … Read more
I recently picked up this piece from Evan Williams of Blogger and Twitter fame. Williams takes a different approach to that of the traditionally perceived access management flow where authentication establishes who you are and authorisation establishes what you are allowed to access. In the blog, Williams assigns the ‘permission’ aspect directly to authentication and … Read more
Shortly before Christmas, the Shibboleth team released their first beta of the new Shibboleth Embedded Discovery service. Unless you are on the shibdev list you might not have heard about this lovely new development so I thought I might do a bit of ‘pimping’! The embedded DS aims to significantly improve the current problems that … Read more
I came across this interesting article about OpenID via @foolington from the JISC Logins for Life project. OpenID has naturally hit that point in its life where people are talking about it being dead and failing to achieve its goals – we see this dip with all products and we saw the same criticism of SAML, which I believe is now firmly embedded as a mainstream standard supporting a variety of technologies (including OpenID). Read more