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Athens
Building Communities
Ed Zedlewski & Lyn Norris
UKSG, Warwick, April 2002
Outline
• Athens today
• Access Management Systems & communities
• New developments
Athens today
• Delivers user:
– Authentication
– Authorisation
– Administration and audit
• De facto standard
– In use throughout HE/FE
– Active roll out across NHS
• User profiling, bulk registration and SSO
Usage
• 1.8m users in HE/FE
– All HE institutions
– 200+ FE colleges
– 50 DSP’s delivering over 200 online services
• Parallel service for NHS sector
– 200+ NHS trusts
Statistics
• 150+ daily bulk uploads
• Average 40+ subscribers per resource
• Over 4 years of non-stop authentication service
Forthcoming DSP’s
• Elsevier – ScienceDirect
• Wiley
• Swets
• Census data
• New DSP’s every week
Athens SSO
• What is SSO and how is it different from Athens?
– Login once – get access to all authorised services
– Requires latest v3.5 Athens agent
• Most DSP’s have either implemented SSO Agent or plan to implement during 2002
How does SSO work?
The need for communities
• UK Government desires a break down of the boundaries in education
• Greater efficiency of service delivery
• Greater integration with campus services
Communities
• Communities have common needs
– Users need a common support infrastructure
– DSP’s need common delivery systems
– Education, health, library communities need to interact
• Athens is middleware that:
– Facilitates accessibility
– Draws users together
User communities
• Libraries need to deliver services to users
– On and off campus
– Distance learners
• Face new challenges of delivering integrated courseware systems and MLE’s
• Integration with student registration and enrolment, MIS and back office systems
User communities …
• Access to external services and content
• Increasing interaction between organisations
– Collaborative projects/services
– Greater student mobility
• All these services need common middleware
• Common community-wide user identities
Data Service Providers (DSP)
• Need to deliver cost effective products through:– Access to well defined subscriber communities– Common infrastructure for service delivery– Users identified in a consistent manner, delivering:
• Reduced maintenance costs• Ease of product marketing and support
• Ever increasing delivery of personalised services• Support for transactional services
• Pay per view• User personalised services
What is the role of an AMS
• User management and profiling services
• Session and concurrency management
• Support for distributed user authentication
• Access tools/API’s to enable integration of the full range of back office systems
New developments in Athens
• AthensDA (Devolved Authentication)
• Improved user management
• Improved service management for DSP’s
• Certificate based authentication
• Integrated e-business services
LocalComputingLibrary
System
PersonnelStudent Registry
Institution
Athens DatabaseDirectory
User Browser DSP service
Athens Authentication Point
LocalComputingLibrary
System
PersonnelStudent Registry
Institution
Athens DatabaseDirectory
User Browser DSP service
Athens Authentication Point
LocalComputingLibrary
System
PersonnelStudent Registry
Institution
Athens DatabaseDirectory
Certificate Authority
Commercial PortalsCommercial PortalsFor example:For example:
YahooYahooContent sitesContent sites
PortalsPortalsFor example:For example:
MLE’sMLE’sMyAthensMyAthens
ApplicationsApplicationsFor example:For example:
Web browserWeb browser
..
Front OfficeFront Office
Middle OfficeMiddle Office
MiddlewareMiddleware
InternetInternet
TransactionTransactionEngineEngine
Payments:Payments:Credit CardCredit Card
Pre-payPre-pay..
Back OfficeBack Office
Internet or IntranetInternet or Intranet
MISMIS
dbdb
StudentStudent
dbdb
registrationregistrationLibraryLibrary
dbdb
DSPDSP
Content servicesContent services & Portals& Portals
RegistrationRegistrationand Enrolmentand Enrolment
DataData
Secure MailSecure Mail
PolicyPolicyEngineEngine Pay per viewPay per view
The future
• For UK education Athens will develop in line with JISC needs
• International interest continues to grow
• Athens is developing new services inline with International standards
Athens contacts
• Email:
• Web:
www.athensams.net
• Tel:
+44 (0)1225 474333
Any questions?
