Identity Management

In many institutions, such as universities, one individual may have multiple identities. He or she may be a graduate student and a teaching assistant. A doctor might be a faculty member and a physician with hospital privileges. Increasingly, researchers work across institutions on large projects and their identity must be verified by systems of partner institutions. Identity can be linked to privileges, as in the ability to access certain systems or types of licensed digital content. CNI has worked on scoping the landscape of identity management and works with organizations such as Shibboleth to encourage standard mechanisms for identity across institutions and in coordination with commercial partners.

In an emerging area, we have been a leader in describing the convergence between identity management systems and personal name authority as used in the context of scholarly communication.

Recent Publications/Reports/Presentations by CNI Staff

“Changing Role of Authentication & Authorization” (August '97)

Author: Clifford A. Lynch

In Library Hi-Tech 15:1-2 (1997), pp. 30-38.

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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings

ORCID Update (December '11)

Geoff Bilder, ORCID and CrossRef
Amy Brand, Harvard University

Building from Bedrock: Tailoring Technology to Collaboration (April '11)

Ken Klingenstein, Internet2

ORCID: The Open Researcher and Contributor ID Registry (April '11)

MacKenzie Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

InCommon: Growing into the Future (April '10)

Kevin Morooney, Pennsylvania State University

The Internet2 Research and Development Agenda (December '09)

Randall Frank, Internet2

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Recent Podcasts

Jan. 18, 2012: Large Datasets, Identity, & New Digital Scholarship (January '12)

CNI Conversations Podcast, Jan. 18, 2012

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Nov 28, 2011: Open Data, Publishing Innovations, Assessment (November '11)

CNI Conversations Podcast, Nov. 28, 2011

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Oct 14, 2011: eBird Global Tool, Net Gen, 21st-Century Collections, and More (October '11)

CNI Conversations Podcast, Oct. 14, 2011

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Digging into Data, Identifiers, Crowdsourcing & Scientific Data (July '11)

CNI Conversations Podcast, June 22, 2011

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June 22, 2011: Digging into Data, Identifiers, Crowdsourcing & Scientific Data (June '11)

CNI Conversations Podcast, June 22, 2011

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