VALA2002 Session 12 Green

Building a shared authentication infrastructure: a matter of trust

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: Standards and Protocols
Friday 8 February 2002, 11:20 – 11:50
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Peter Green

Curtin University of Technology

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Abstract

The Western Australian Group of University Librarians (WAGUL) was successful in obtaining a substantial grant from the Commonwealth Development Pool (CDP) to fund a major authentication project. The resulting WAGUL Authentication Project will deliver a distributed authentication infrastructure for the five Western Australian Universities. This paper describes the motivations for the project, the expected benefits and the journey itself.

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VALA2004 Session 12 Sutherland

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An OpenURL resolver (SFX) in action: the answer to a librarian’s prayer or a burden for technical services?

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: Access to Information
Thursday 5 February 2004, 10:45 – 11:15

Alison Sutherland

Bibliographic Services Librarian, Curtin University of Technology
http://library.curtin.edu.au

Peter Green

e-Library Development Librarian, Curtin University of Technology
http://library.curtin.edu.au

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This paper will reflect on the experience of installing, configuring and maintaining the Ex Libris’ OpenURL resolver – SFX. Particular attention will be paid to the extraordinary usefulness of this tool for gluing together the components of the resource discovery process. This paper will discuss the level of staffing required to maintain the resolver service, the skill sets required by those staff and the place of an OpenURL resolver within the extended ILMS. Finally the authors will speculate on the future of such a service within the portfolio of online services offered by a university library.

VALA2004 Session 14 Green

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Distributed authentication for the Western Australian University Libraries

VALA 2004 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: User Authentication
Thursday 5 February 2004, 14:00 – 14:30

Peter Green

e-Library Development Librarian, Curtin University of Technology
http://library.curtin.edu.au

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The need to establish a means of achieving reliable, automated inter-institutional authentication was identified by the Western Australian Group of University Librarians (WAGUL) in 1999 as a strategic priority and a project was subsequently established as a result of a substantial grant from the Commonwealth Development Pool (CDP). The WAGUL Authentication Project (WALAP) first reported on its progress at VALA 2002 and now follows up with a report on the achievements to date and the challenges to come.