Shibboleth at LSE

LSE Library

Introduction

This website summarises and links to all the work done with Shibboleth at LSE, from the early work we did to develop access management principles in various e-library projects and the first investigation of Shibboleth and MACE-Dir work at Internet2 that we undertook for JISC in 2000.

It is also intended to collect together public information about the current use of Shibboleth at LSE to provide simpler and better access control for LSE students, staff and researchers to as many as e-resources and applications they use as possible.

This includes:

• A brief history - how we got involved in Shibboleth, what we have done so far plus references to relevant work in other projects that was going on at the same time.
• Benefits for LSE - the business benefits we foresee for LSE.
• Technical implementation - the technical details of our experimental and production implementations of Shibboleth, and the Enterprise Directory infrastructure that we're building to support Identity & Access Management (IAM).
• Shibbolising e-resources for LSE Library - updated progress on how the LSE Library is implementing Shibboleth, our work at encouraging content vendors to adopt Shibboleth etc.
• Shibbolisation progress at LSE Library - progress pie charts
• Communicating with users - the way we're explaining access management to LSE end-users.
• Internal information for LSE users - explains what Shibboleth is and the benefits of using it.

If you would like more information or have any questions, please email the LSE Projects Team at info@angel.ac.uk.