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Identity Management Conference Report

drupal — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:53:49 -0600

The Identity Management Conference was held June 5-6, 2006, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The University of Texas System: "Extending the Reach" Case Studies

drupal — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:58:12 -0600

In an effort to enable greater synergy and collaboration among its institutions and better serve their broad constituencies, The University of Texas System (UT System) set out in 2004 to create a core resource consortium of middleware-leveraged resource providers - a project which has matured and is now the UT System Federation. This document is a compilation of the five case studies, each set in a unique environment, the UT System completed as part of their exploration and implementation of middleware and the federated infrastructure model.

Four case studies were undertaken in the course of this project with partial funding from an Extending the Reach (ETR) grant from the National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative-Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies (NMI-EDIT) Consortium. The fifth case documents UT System's work in developing the UT System Federation: Case Study 1: Middleware Outsourcing Feasibility Study Case Study 2: Baylor College of Medicine/UT Health Science Center at Houston Shibboleth Project Case Study 3: Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center (HAM-TMC) Library Shibboleth Proxy Service Case Study 4: Shibboleth Version of Employee Benefits Annual Enrollment Application UT System Case Study: The University of Texas System Identity Management Federation

What Is a Digital Library Anymore, Anyway?

drupal — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:37:45 -0600

The authors explore how digital libraries have evolved over the years and what form they have now taken."This paper describes an information model for digital libraries that intentionally moves "beyond search and access", without ignoring those basic functions, and facilitates the creation of collaborative and contextual knowledge environments. This model is an information network overlay that represents a digital library as a graph of typed nodes, corresponding to the information units (documents, data, services, agents) within the library, and semantic edges representing the contextual relationships among those units. The information model integrates local and distributed information integrated with web services, allowing the creation of rich documents (e.g., learning objects, publications for e-science, etc.). It expresses the complex relationships among information objects, agents, services, and meta-information (such as ontologies), and thereby represents information resources in context, rather than as the result of stand-alone web access. It facilitates collaborative activities, closing the loop between users as consumers and users as contributors."