Guest post: The Further Adventures of Little Red Riding Hood
Guest post from Phil Adams, Senior Assistant Librarian at De Montfort University For F. Scott Fitzgerald, the ‘natural state of a sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness’ (1). Evidence for this...
View ArticleGuest post: Library usage and student attainment
Guest post from Phil Adams, Senior Assistant Librarian at De Montfort University During the early part of 2011 De Montfort University was one of the partners in the University of Huddersfield led...
View ArticleGuest post: Taking the ‘aargh’ out of access management
Guest post by Nicole Harris from JISC Advance One of the main things I have been focusing on this year is trying to make the user experience of access management better. We’ve all been there, the...
View ArticleGuest post: The case for eduGAIN
Joost van Dijk is a Technical Product Manager at SURFnet in the Netherlands. SURFnet operates SURFfederatie, the Dutch Identity Federation for Higher Education and Research. SURFnet recently joined...
View ArticleGuest post: DiscoJuice and the identity discovery problem
Andreas Åkre Solberg has been a Researcher in UNINETT since 2004. Andreas is involved in several research activities on authentication and authorization infrastructures, and currently leads the...
View ArticleGuest post: Digital Identity Management is ‘Fundamental’
Guest post by Nicole Harris from JISC Advance I can’t believe it’s already a month since FAM11! For those that attended, I hope you had as much fun as I did. For those that didn’t, the presentations...
View ArticleHow much assurance do you need?
Guest post by Nicole Harris from JISC Advance I just got back from a very successful REFEDS event at the APAN Conference in Chiang Mai. APAN is the equivalent of TERENA, but serving the Asia Pacific...
View ArticleThe Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Error messages for blocked users
This is a guest post from Phil Adams, Senior Assistant Librarian at De Montfort University on the usability of error messages for blocked users. What happens when blocked users (those without access...
View ArticleReport from FAM12 – Broadening Horizons in Federated Access Management
This is a guest post from Andrew Brown, Collections Services and Systems Manager at Swansea University. On 6 November I attended FAM12 in Birmingham. This year’s theme was ‘Broadening Horizons’ which...
View ArticleRAPID (RAPTOR Informing Decisions)
This is a guest post from Richard James and Chris Franks, Infrastructure Systems Administrators at Newcastle University, on the RAPID project. At FAM12, we gave a short presentation summarising our...
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