Grant 10/08: Project to Develop an Identity Toolkit
This all sounds a little complex from the title above but I’m really looking forward to some good responses on this grant (started off as a call but has now moved into our new money issuing process so has a different name). More details can be found here.
For those with quite long memories the background to this was to take up a recommendation from the Identity Project and provide funding for the development of an identity toolkit that would help universities and colleges with putting in an identity infrastructure. It’s work that has been done at some institutions already so people like Cardiff, for example, have done a good deal of work in this area. However, what this grant aims to do is to bring together that good experience and provide it all in one place so that everyone can use it either a little or a lot, dependent on where they are in the cycle of managing identity.
We’re hoping this is going to be a very useful piece of work as more and more institutions are joining the federation and having to address the subject of identity management as part of moving to using the federation to control access to resources. Whilst it is not going to be a panacea it should form an important part of the future work on identity and access management that is going to go ahead over the next few years.
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