The electronic sharing of general scientific data can be a complex but incredibly beneficial process. We identify elements that must exist in a system designed for such a purpose ...
Data access and software exchange are often achieved over insecure networks such as the public Internet. System designers are therefore forced to be proactive with regard to verif...
Identity management and federation is becoming an ever present problem in large multi-institutional environments. By their nature, Grids span multiple institutional administration...
Stephen Langella, Scott Oster, Shannon Hastings, F...
—Shibboleth is an architecture and protocol for allowing users to authenticate and be authorized to use a remote resource by logging into the identity management system that is m...
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 ...
Kailash Bhoopalam, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Rav...