An Identity Economy for R&E?

Nicole Harris UK Access Management Focus, JISC Advance

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• UK Access Management Focus;• Advisor to UK federation;• REFEDS Coordinator;• PEER Project Manager;• Shibboleth Consortium Manager;• Generally opinionated about access and identity.

1. Legitimise the web as a place for scholarly activity.

2. Fix the right problems.

3. Shift from constructing spaces to supporting actions.

1. LEGITIMISE THE WEB AS A PLACE FOR SCHOLARLY RESEARCH

SPACE IS NOT THE FINAL FRONTIER

http://xkcd.com/731/

Image Scott Room – David White – CC attribution license. http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2011/09/30/the-learning-black-market/ GWR = Google > Wikipedia > References

THE COMFORT BLANKET

http://xkcd.com/927

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Monitoring Unit</mdui:DisplayName><mdui:Description xml:lang="en">Restricted access to JISC Monitoring Unit

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2. FIX THE RIGHT PROBLEMS

http://xkcd.com/763/

ACCOUNT PROBLEM

• PROBLEM: My institution is taking a long time to properly register students and provision them with accounts, so there is a gap when students do not have the credentials to access online resources.

• QUESTION: can i create ‘guest accounts’ with Shibboleth to get around this problem?

RESPONSE?

• It’s up to an institution whether or not they want to create guest accounts within their system, but generally it is bad practice;

• It should take the same time to provision a guest account as to provision a guest account, if not, the IDM system is broken;

• If a student is not formally registered and provisioned in your system, they aren’t ‘eligible users’ and shouldn’t be using resources;

• The provisioning process needs fixing, you don’t need to find a library workaround.

10 IDENTITY METRICS THAT MATTER

http://www.csoonline.com/article/690704/10-identity-management-metrics-that-matter?page=1

(NO5) TIME TAKEN TO PROVISION, OR DEPROVISION, YOUR USERS

3. SHIFT FROM CONSTRUCTING SPACES TO SUPPORTING ACTIONS

PORTAL

REPOSITORY

SITE

DISCOVERY SERVICE

(LEARNING) ENIVRONMENT

WIKI

TWEET

CHECK-IN

SHARE

FOLLOW

+1

LIKE

HOW DO I SEE THE INTERWEB?

The Dark Internet

The Light Internet

specific information, unlikely discovery

general information, widely available

traditional media,online

MainstreamBlogs/news

“niche” blogs news

open socialmedia

targetedsocial media

privatemedia

Advertising

“We need to stop digital literacy training that uses the internet and social media to achieve

pre-defined outcomes.”Dr Abhay Adhikari, http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/higher-education-network-blog/2011/oct/10/digital-literacy-collaboration?CMP=twt_gu

Reflection + Internet = Digital Identity

WHAT VALUE DO WE ADD? Celebrate your studentyness

CONCLUSION

A proper scholarly layer to the internet, filtering information appropriately, supporting affiliation

within the search engine and controlled and directed by the identity transactions of our

users.

Thank you for listening.