Access Management in Federated Digital Libraries

With the growth in digital libraries and standardization of protocols for metadata sharing, it is becoming feasible to build federated discovery services which aggregate metadata from different digital libraries (data providers) and provide a unified search interface to users. One of the obstacles that keep data providers, especially the commercial ones, from joining the federation is the lack of an infrastructure to support their business model. Commercial publishers are interested in sharing their metadata with a service provider if they can provide controlled access (who can see what) according to their business model. Driven by the need of commercial organizations (both for-profit and non-profit) to have controlled access to their digital objects and, furthermore, to have that control be inherited by aggregators that federate several contributing organizations, we have implemented a demonstration system based on Shibboleth, OAI-PMH, and XACML. Our system enables contributors to ma...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: IADIS
• Authors: Kailash Bhoopalam, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Ravi Mukkamala
• Keywords: Controlled Access, Data Providers, Digital Libraries, IADIS 2004, IADIS 2008