London School of Economics project activities and recent developments

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London School of Economicsproject activities and
recent developments

• John Paschoud
• LSE Library InfoSystems Engineer Projects
  Manager

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• Middleware Metadata
• ANGEL
• UKeduPerson
• Access Management
• SECURe
• Information Architecture
• LSE MIKE
• Content Integration
• DELIVER, M25 Systems, CC-interop, DART

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ANGEL

• JISC-funded, Oct2000 to Feb2003
• Middleware tools for Resource and User Management
  
• (JISC Information Environment development)
• Collection-level Metadata for e-resources
• In use for LSE Library EL
• http//library-2.lse.ac.uk/EL/info/
• http//www.angel.ac.uk/download/

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SECURe

• JISC-funded, Nov2002 to Jul2004
• Testing Shibboleth for cross-domain access
  management YaleCAS for in-domain Single Sign-On
• Testing LeedsLUCIE for local PKI cert.
  management for roving users
• Testing smartcard device interoperability
• Developing Enterprise Directory models
• http//www.angel.ac.uk/SECURe/

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UKeduPerson

• UK assessment of eduPerson and related schemas
• K-99
• Jan2004 to May2004
• With 5 parallel studies will help to define JISC
  2004 AM Middleware Programmes
• Institutional Profiling, Terms Conditions
  Services
• Digital Rights Management
• JISC national certificate issuing service
• Single Sign-On technologies
• Policy creation tools for PERMIS

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LSE MIKE architecture
CLR Collection-Level Registry
CLR
CMS Content Management System
SITS
CMS
student data
content
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DELIVER

• JISC funded, Oct2002 to Jul2003
• Integration of library resources into VLEs
• Focus on taught-course reading lists
• Evaluated TalisList, LoughboroughRLS and
  ReadingListDirect (Sentient Discover!)
• Influencing IMS Resource List Interop standard
• http//www.angel.ac.uk/DELIVER/

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M25 Systems Team

• Over 5 years experience in Z39.50 applications,
  catalogue searching and web services
• Bath Profile Project
• investigating vendor library system Z-servers and
  how well they comply to Bath Release 2.0
• Operating M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries
  web services
• Technical consultants for Project WiLL
• (Whats in Londons Libraries)
• public library clump run by London Library
  Development Agency

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CC-interop Project

• JISC funded, May2002 to Apr2004
• LSE (lead partner), MIMAS, University of
  Strathclyde
• 3 strands
• WP A investigating technical interoperability
  between large physical and distributed catalogues
  (COPAC InforM25)
• WP B looking at Collection Level Descriptions and
  cataloguing standards
• WP C is a User Behaviour study analysing how
  users search large bibliographic catalogues
• All gathering knowledge to feed in to future UK
  National Catalogue

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DART

• Digital Anthropological Resources for Teaching
• JISC/NSF funding LSE/Columbia partnership
• Feb2003 to Jan2008
• Using Shibboleth for cross-domain access