Collaboration, Presentations/Speeches, and Identity Management

All dozen institutions comprising the CIC recently decided to join the InCommon Federation. This session will describe the motivation for and experience of joining InCommon. We'll also describe some of the use cases, including interactions with the federal government, interinstitutional access, and community source development projects.

This session will describe and explain the policy, practices, and technologies implemented at the University of Southern California to allow the extension of electronic services for learning, research, and collaboration to guests and colleagues at other higher education institutions.

Campuses will provide part of the solution to the problem of managing access to resources supporting scholarly collaborations. We'll look at campus identity management tools and practices that hold promise for collaboration support, including a demonstration of a prototype "collaboration platform" to help shift our discussion from the abstract to a concrete casting of some of its elements and operational processes.