Using a Shibboleth Trust Federation to create

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Using a Shibboleth Trust Federation to create
Joint Lessons with LAMSJames Dalziel
Ernie Ghiglione Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of
Excellence (MELCOE)Macquarie University
james_at_melcoe.mq.edu.au ernieg_at_melcoe.mq.edu.auw
ww.melcoe.mq.edu.auPresentation for Second
International LAMS Conference, Macquarie
University, Sydney, Australia, 26th November, 2007
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Overview

• Shibboleth Trust Federations
• Australian Access Federation
• LAMS Joint Classes demonstration
• Muradora secure TLF object delivery
• Questions

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Shibboleth Trust Federations

• A Trust Federation is a combination of technology
  and policy infrastructure that allows different
  organisations to collaborate in a secure and
  distributed way.
• Shibboleth is the worlds leading Trust
  Federation technology for the education and
  research sector
• Shibboleth Trust Federations are being rolled out
  in Australia (MAMS testbed Australian Access
  Federation), New Zealand, UK, USA and many other
  countries.

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Australian Access Federation

• The Australian Access Federation project is
  taking forward the work of the MAMS (Shibboleth)
  and e-Security (PKI) projects to develop a
  unified trust federation for higher education and
  research
• Policy and governance
• PKI and Shibboleth production rollout
• Adoption support, workshops, supporting systems,
  etc
• For details, see www.aaf.edu.au

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Demonstrations

• Using Shibboleth and LAMS to create Joint
  Lessons across classes from different
  educational institutions
• Without requiring IT staff assistance with
  accounts, etc
• Trusted repository access
• Muradora (Shibboleth-based, Java front-end to
  Fedora repository, XACML for authorisation)
• Can be used for delivery of Learning Objects (eg,
  TLF)

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Integration with NZ MoE ESAA

• The Demonstrations are based on the existing MAMS
  Testbed Federation
• NZ Ministry of Education ESAA project has joined
  the MAMS Testbed as an Identity Provider
• Illustrates potential for connection between
  different federations
• LAMS example illustrates potential for join
  classes across different countries
• Shibboleth enabling of LAMS supported by NZ MoE
• Ready for real world trials in 2008
• Email me if interested (james_at_melcoe.mq.edu.au)
• Thanks to NZ MoE for supporting this work

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Using Shibboleth in LAMS to create dynamic Joint
Classes
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Demonstration
For an animated walkthrough of LAMS Joint
Lessons, see http//saturn.melcoe.mq.edu.au/lams2/
docs/winks/shib1.htm
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Muradora Shibboleth and XACML-based Fedora
Repository
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Questions