© Australian Access Federation Inc. T HE A USTRALIAN A CCESS F EDERATION Bradley Beddoes: Accelerated Technical Development Lead Supported by the Australian

© Australian Access Federation Inc.

THE AUSTRALIAN ACCESS FEDERATION

Bradley Beddoes: Accelerated Technical Development Lead

Supported by the Australian Government through the Department of Innovation,

Industry, Science and Research

IBS Phenomics Data and Informatics Workshop - April 2010

OVERVIEW

© Australian Access Federation Inc. www.aaf.edu.au

The Australian Access Federation (AAF) provides a production framework and support infrastructure to facilitate trusted electronic communications and collaboration within and between universities and research institutions in Australia and overseas.

Project Manager Heath Marks Griffith University

Technical Program Manager Terry Smith QUT

Accelerated Technical Development Lead Bradley Beddoes QUT

Change and Communication Manager Glenys Kranz Griffith University

Snr. Graphic Designer/Web Developer Steven Beagley QUT

Policy, Process and Strategy Patricia McMillan University of Queensland

Technical Support Damien Mannix VeRSI


AAF PROJECT STAFF

President Paul Sherlock UniSA

Vice President Vacant Vacant

Treasurer David Toll CSIROSecretary Bruce Callow Griffith UniversityPublic Officer AAF Inc. Richard Northam CAUDIT

Ordinary Members Jeremy De Vu Monash University

John Parry UTAS

Vacant Vacant

Garry Trinder ECU

Anthony Williams ARCS

Co-Opt Non-Voting Members Rhys Francis NRIC

Clare McLaughlin DIISR

Thien Tran DIISR

Peter Nissen CAUDIT

James Sankar AARNet

Stephen Whiteside University of Auckland


INTERIM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

WHAT IS A FEDERATION?

A federation is a group of institutions and organisations that sign up to an agreed set of policies for exchanging information about users and resources to enable access and use of resources and services. The federation combined with identity management software within institutions and organisations can be referred to as federated access management.

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Federated Access Management builds a trust relationship between Identity Providers (IdP) and Service Providers (SP). It devolves the responsibility for authentication to a user’s home institution, and establishes authorisation through the secure exchange of information (known as attributes) between the two parties.

Federation Operational Since # Identity Providers

# Service Providers

# End users

UK: UKfed Nov 2006 751 (mix idp + sp) 3,000,000Netherlands: SURFNet8,500 p/week

November 2007 41 13 500,564

Spain: SIR April 2008 27 107 600,000Swiss: SWITCH August 2005 41 337 260,000Germany: DFN - AAI November 2007 40 30 UnavailableDenmark : WAYF March 2008 8 5 125,000Norway: Feide May 2003 30 50 180,000Finland: HAKA3.8M logins in 2008

August 2005 30 60 264,000

France: Renater October 2006 53 54 900,000Greece: GRNET January 2007 19 4 ~30,000Croatia: AAIedu~4.2M Logins 2008

Unavailable 219 70 >530,000

USA: Incommon Unavailable 79 140 2,200,000

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATIONS

THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNEY

© Australian Access Federation Inc. www.aaf.edu.auSource: Adapted from Gartner Hype Cycle

Peak of Inflated Expectations

Trough of Disillusionment

Technology Trigger

Plateau of Productivity

2011

MAMS: MELCOE AAF: CAUDIT

AAF moves to production Mode

AAF Operator Appointed

Slope of Enlightenment

AAF Mini-grant

Scheme begins

THE AAF ROADMAP

FROM JUNE 2009 TO END OF 2010:

• $2 Million DIISR Funding – 8 Key areas

• MAMS Testbed Migration $150,000 • Technical resources to assist organisations to join the AAF $300,000• Marketing and Communication $250,000 • Mini-grant program $455,000 • CAUDIT support $150,000 • AAF Inc Operations $400,000 • Foundation Members Support $150,000 • Advanced Technical Developments 145,000


• Focus on significantly accelerating the implementation of the AAF = Plateau of Productivity

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BENEFITS OF THE AAF

• Log in using the credentials (username and password) issued by your own institution

• Provides a framework to seamlessly access a wide range of resources internally and externally to institutions:• data collections and data grids,• scientific instruments, modeling and visualisation tools, and computing

resources,• collaboration environments and workspaces for virtual teams,• scholarly resources and publications,• eLearning resources and learning object collections,• national higher education and research administrative systems.

FOR RESEARCHERS, STAFF AND STUDENTS


BENEFITS OF THE AAF (CONT’D)

• Only need to remember one account from the home institution• The need to disclose identity is reduced• Increased interuniversity mobility and collaboration

The AAF– will become the key framework for several Australian e-research initiatives that rely on online collaboration.

FOR RESEARCHERS, STAFF AND STUDENTS


• The AAF will enable Service Providers to provide access to services and resources in an authorised and secure way without needing to issue individual user accounts

• Institutions and Service Providers agree to abide by the Federation policies and to trust the information shared between them

FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS




FOR THE INSTITUTION

• Improved institutional identity management practices• Better service to users• Improved access services for cross institutional courses• Integrated with existing access management systems, and• Reduced identity and access support problems.




18 Australian University Members(46% of Australian Universities Joined!)

3 New Zealand University Members

6 Research Organisation Members

4 Affiliates

Many more in the pipeline!


Intending to Joining:

• AARNet • Australian National University • Australian Synchrotron • Bond University • Curtin University • Intersect Australia Ltd • iVEC • The University of Melbourne • The University of the Sunshine Coast • University of Newcastle • Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative • Dotsec

WHO CAN JOIN THE AAF?

Participation in the Federation is available to organisations and institutions which undertake or support education, research or research and development in Australia and agree to be bound by the Federation Rules for Participants.

o Tertiary Education Institutions – universities and vocational education institutions

o Government or commercial research institutions – CSIRO, BoM, CRCs

o Not-for-profit entities supporting research or education – ARCS, Intersect

o Organisations delivering products or services to the education or research sector – ABS, Microsoft, State Departments of Primary Industry, Elsevier

o Any other entity approved by the Executive Committee from time to time.

Participants are either Members or Affiliates.

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AAF SERVICES

WHAT SERVICES ARE PLANNED OR AVAILABLE NOW

NOW: eGrad School (ATN Universities: Curtin University of Technology, QUT, RMIT University, University of South Australia, UTS.)

Services include:• Award level qualifications• Research Methodology Online (MORE)• Employability Skills Online (LEAP)• Information Literacy for the eResearcher

NOW: Australian Research Collaboration Services (ARCS)• Arcs Services• ARCS Data Fabric – 25GB data storage• Job Execution Manager (Grisu)

Affiliate Participant Services

• NetSpot Hosted Moodle solutions in the cloud

• Pebble Learning Hosted e-Portfolio solution in the cloud

• RMIT Publishing Informit on-line service for Australian scholarly publications

• TALIS Information Limited Talis Aspire – A reading list solution


AAF SERVICES (CONT’D)


ANDS Publish My Data

ANDS Publish My Data self-service allows Australian researchers and research organisations to publicise the existence of research collections via the internet.

Publish My Data self-service is an ANDS online service that allows individuals to manually enter collection description information and to obtain a persistent identifier for the collection. This information will be stored in the ANDS Collections Registry and will be discoverable through Research Data Australia.

AAF SERVICES (CONT’D)


Virtual Beam Line (VBL)

VBL allows researchers using the following Beamlines - macromolecular crystallography, micro crystallography and powder diffraction - to see experiments on these Beamlines from a location remote to the synchrotron.

Researchers using the VBL can collaborate using an advanced high-quality video conferencing system and shared applications.

AAF SERVICE CATALOGUE

The catalogue will enable the Federation’s End Users to browse and connect to Federation Enabled Services, and will act as a key marketing tool in the promotionof our Participants’ services.


Visit us online www.aaf.edu.au

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QUESTIONS?