JA-SIG Conference: Future of Identity Management in HigherEd

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Jens’s talk is focusing on Identity Management where he’s focusing on life-cycle of identity data. Looks like the talk is going to focus on moving towards user-centered identity.”Access to the right resources, to the right users, at the right time” — focused on providing, not preventing access (e.g. from a security perspective).

Authentication vs. Authorization is [...]

JA-SIG Conference: Unconference Planning

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Thinking about things to do for the new JA-SIG. Some talk on various topics related to un-conferences, and other bits. There was actually a lot of interesting discussion about regional conferences, video meetings, un-conferences, events focused on collaborating on whitepages, etc. I’ll updated with an audio transcript… uhhh… when I get a chance…

JA-SIG Conference: Building Portable Portlets

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Chuck is talking a bit more about his experience with portlets, and the implications for uPortal, Sakai, etc.

Sakai portlet notes: * Preferences - site.upd to change * Edit Mode - site.upd again * isUserInRole() mapped to Sakai permissions site.upd, content.read, etc.

The isUserInRole() mapping seems a little counter-intuitive — seems like really portlet.xml should be mapped to a particular [...]

JA-SIG Conference: Phil Windley Digital Identity Keynote

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Listening to Phil’s keynote. Will be trying to post video and audio at some point — in the meantime, there’s a good thread about reputation and privacy.

Update: Posted very rough audio recording of the keynote, also available as part of the podcast.

 
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