Eduserv Foundation

I listened in to a G-Cloud web-cast organised by Intellect earlier this month, the primary intention of which was to provide an update on where things have got to. I use the term ‘update’ loosely because, with the election and change of government and what-not, there…

As mentioned previously, I spoke at the FAM10 conference in Cardiff last week, standing in for another speaker who couldn’t make it and using material crowdsourced from my…

One specific issue that came up during discussions at the FAM10 conference (see my previous post) was about the use of ‘attributes’ vs ‘entitlements’ in the SAML messages passed from Identity Providers to Service Providers’. For the…

The use of iTunesU by UK universities has come up in discussions a couple of times recently, on Brian Kelly’s UK Web Focus blog (What Are UK Universities Doing With iTunesU? and iTunes U: an Institutional Perspective) and on the closed ALT-C discussion list. In both cases…

I wrote a brief update for the FleSSR project blog yesterday, covering some work we did last week at our (relatively new) Swindon Data Centre to build the initial infrastructure for the project’s public cloud. I won’t repeat any of that here but would just…

In recent meetings on access management and single sign-on I’ve mentioned the usability work being done by the Kantara ULX Working Group and suggested that it represents real progress in terms of how the relatively complex ‘federated login’…

Lawrie Phipps of the JISC has written a nice response to the recommendations of the report to HEFCE by the NUS (the UK National Union of Students), Student perspectives on technology — demand, perceptions and training needs [PDF], which…

At the tail end of last week Ian Davis of Talis wrote a blog post entitled, Is 303 Really Necessary?, which gave various reasons why the widely adopted (within the Linked Data community) 303-redirect pattern for moving from the URI for a non-Information…

This week saw publication of Martha Lane Fox’s report, and the associated government response, about the future of the UK government’s web presence, Directgov 2010 and beyond: Revolution not evolution:

The report, and the Government’s initial response, argues for a…