Oxford University Computing Services
Posted on Tuesday, 23 November 2004
Oxford University Computing Services is now an SDSS identity provider. This work is part of the SPIE (Shibboleth-aware Portals and Information Environments) JISC Core Middleware project.
First Institutional Origin
Posted on Thursday, 11 November 2004
The University of Newcastle upon Tyne has become our first live institution-level origin site. Newcastle now has Shibboleth-enabled access to JISC information environment content via the SDSS federation. Earlier, AMIE (Attribute Management in an Institutional Environment) and IAMSECT (Inter-institutional Authorisation Management to Support eLearning with reference to Clinical Teaching) became the first JISC Core Middleware projects to join the federation. To give Newcastle users access to live data, a second EDINA service has been Shibbolized: BIOSIS, which contains bibliographic references for life sciences research (Newcastle does not subscribe to UPDATE, which was converted earlier).
First Target Goes Live
Posted on Thursday, 4 November 2004
The first live Shibboleth-enabled JISC information environment target service has been added to the SDSS federation. This is EDINA UPDATE, which contains bibliographic references on farming, the countryside and the environment for UK HE and FE. It is now accessible from institution-level SDSS origins.
GlobalSign Certificates Accepted
Posted on Friday, 3 September 2004
The SDSS federation now accepts X.509 certificates from GlobalSign, leveraging a trust framework already in place between UKERNA and GlobalSign for the registration of UK academic web servers. Additionally, the federation continues to accept certificates issued by its own internal CA.