Scottish Federated Access Management Forum (McShib)

This forum provides a mechanism for individuals within Scottish colleges and universities to share information about federated access management and Shibboleth. The group will be of interest to anyone involved in access management within their organisation, particularly IT and learning resources staff. Whether you simply want to find out more about federated access management, or are well into the implementation process and would like to share your experiences, this group will be of interest to you.

Meetings

26th May 2009

The latest meeting of the forum took place on 26th May 2009 at the University of Glasgow (Wolfson Medical School Building). Presentations included a federation update from Mark Williams (JISC Collections), case studies from Jillian Martin (Adam Smith College) and William Nixon (University of Glasgow), and an introduction to EZProxy from Andy Swiffin (University of Dundee). Matthew Phillips (University of Dundee) discussed the effects of Shibboleth implementation on the University's library services and Rod Widdowson (EDINA) provided information on the Shib2 installer. Additionally Andy Swiffin produced a video which demonstrated how to install an IdP in under 13 minutes!

View the presentations from the event.

11th April 2008

The 3rd of the forum took place on Friday 11th April 2008 and included presentations from Chad La Joie (SWITCH), Simon Cooper (JANET-UK) and Rod Widdowson (EDINA). View further information.

14th December 2007

The 2nd meeting of the forum took place on Friday 14th December 2007 at the offices of the JISC Regional Support Centre for Scotland North & East, based at Edinburgh's Telford College. View the presentations from the event.

8th August 2007

The inaugural meeting of the forum was held on Wednesday 8th August 2007 at Edinburgh's Telford College. Fifty persons from across Scottish Further & Higher Education attended this event. Find out what happened here.

A JISC Mail list has been established by the group for the exchange of information about upcoming meetings.

If you are interested in joining the forum please contact the RSC.

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