Dear all,
Model License Agreement has been prepared by Seamless Access to assist
information professionals who offer or acquire digital content in a
library. The intent of the document is to present a sound and realistic
template of the key issues involved in negotiating a license to acquire or
use digital content, specifically as it relates to the world of Federated
Authentication & Authorization. New REFEDS entity categories are involved
here for optimal attributes release. Comments may be left until end of
March -
https://seamlessaccess.org/posts/2022-03-14-contractlangmodellicense/
Best regards
Jiri Pavlik, https://www.czechelib.cz/en/
Hi all,
We like to create a Q&A page for the website. You can find the page here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xpZ6eE1LxlXtYXXQ_kPPyrgxEoyNkeEuqXkddJJ…
Please have a look and drop your comments and/or Q&A's and suggestions as you like. Or send an email to me.
Furthermore, we are preparing a public consultation for the new version of FIM4L recommendations. We will do this on the LIBER website<https://libereurope.eu/working-group/liber-fim4l-working-group/>.
Since last FIM4L newsletter (June) we cleared up comments and add some additional changes. Most catching perhaps is that we changed the two configuration options 4.a and 4.b, from "Transitory Access" and "Personalized Access" to: "Anonymous Access" and "Pseudonymous Access". This is done to align with REFEDS<https://wiki.refeds.org/display/ENT/Entity-Categories+Home> entity categories, named: Anonymous- and Pseudonymous Authorization.
You can find the draft second version of FIM4L recommendations here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fae_IDch-wOkgnBD_3MaZCHOsQ7pLxzXvl7h7Vk…>.
Your input is appreciated!
All the best,
Jos
Jos Westerbeke
Library IT specialist/manager | Erasmus University Rotterdam | www.eur.nl/library | jos.westerbeke(a)eur.nl | +31 640295513
Dear all,
let me encourage you to check a consultation of Personalized entity
category:
https://wiki.refeds.org/display/CON/Entity+Category+Consultation+-+Personal…
The entity category could be particularly useful for personalisation when
working
with Open Access content or for submitting Open Access articles. It
complements previously released REFEDS Anonymous Authorization and
Pseudonymous Authorization entity categories -
https://refeds.org/specifications
The consultation is open until Monday evening next week.
Best regards from Prague
Jiri
Dear FIM4R and FIM4L colleagues
I hope you don’t mind me forwarding this on but as we seek to ensure REFEDS is as representative as possible you may be interested in the following call.
Best wishes
Nicole
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Nicole Harris <nicole.harris(a)geant.org>
> Subject: Nominations for REFEDS Steering Committee
> Date: 13 September 2021 at 11:39:12 BST
> To: sc(a)lists.refeds.org, sponsors(a)lists.refeds.org
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> Dear All
>
> It is that time again and we are seeking nominations for people from the community to sit on the REFEDS Steering Committee. Details of the Steering Committee can be found in the REFEDS Participant’s Agreement: https://refeds.org/about/participants <https://refeds.org/about/participants>. In real terms, the commitment is typically 4 REFEDS SC meetings a year, and work to ratify the results community consultations.
>
> If you would like any more details about REFEDS, the SC or any of the processes please do not hesitate to contact me. Anyone my nominate or self-nominate, and then these nominations will be sent to the REFEDS Sponsors for endorsement.
>
> Much appreciated
>
> Nicole
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> Nicole Harris
> Head of Trust and Identity Operations
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> PGP key Fingerprint: 4017 2E40 13D4 9DA7 68E1 8ADB 3F11 9CDB FC48 6216
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> Networks • Services • People
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> Learn more at www.geant.org <http://www.geant.org/>
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> GÉANT Vereniging (Association) is registered with the Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam with registration number 40535155 and operates in the UK as a branch of GÉANT Vereniging. Registered office: Hoekenrode 3, 1102BR Amsterdam, The Netherlands. UK branch address: City House, 126 -130 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1PQ, UK.
>
Dear all,
Seamless Access Contract Language Working Group with both library and
publishers representatives led by Jason Griffey from NISO released Entity
Category Use Case Scenarios document for comments. The goal of the document
is to outline the various use cases in order to determine the overlap
between user access, authentication and authorization, attribute release,
and entity categories used in the federated authentication communication
between the Identity Provider and the Service Provider. These use cases
will be used to ground the contract language in real world examples.
You may like to check the document and add comments -
https://seamlessaccess.org/posts/2021-06-17-contractlangusecases/
Enjoy tropic weekend
Jiri
Hi -- Please excuse the cross-posting.
There is still time to register for the FIM / ORCID AFFINITY GROUP MEETING
Thursday, 17 June 2021 | 13:30 - 15:30 CEST (online)
Registration: https://events.geant.org/event/865/ (no charge)
*ABOUT THIS MEETING*
Collaboration between ORCID and the research/education community has grown
since ORCID's launch in late 2012:
- Federations lead ORCID consortia of institutions
- Academic libraries rely on ORCID iDs to attribute, catalog and
quantify scholarly communications outputs
- Research institutions use ORCID iDs to more accurately link
research contributors
- ORCID sign-in has been considered as an IdP of Last Resort for
research collaboration tools
- Unique Institutional credentials have been linked to over 320,000 ORCID
accounts
- ORCID iDs are included in the eduPerson schema
Conversations happen globally among ORCID, federation operators, library
and research organizations, practitioners, software providers, and
standards committees, though rarely over the entirety of this group at the
same time. During this meeting, we convene to consider strategic topics
that involve the ORCID platform or iDs, and deepen collaboration among the
ORCID and these communities.
*WHAT WE'LL TALK ABOUT*
This interactive meeting will include several discussion sessions:
1. *Inspiration: The Role of ORCID in Connection & Collaboration* - Omo
Oaiya, Chief Strategy Officer, WACREN
2. *ORICD & FIM: Today & Tomorrow* - Facilitated by Chris Shillum,
Executive Director, ORCID
3. *Use of the ORCID Platform* - Facilitated by Tom Demeranville,
Product Director, ORCID
4. *The ORCID Collaboration Network* - Facilitated by Gabi Mejias,
Engagement Manager, Global Consortia, ORCID
Hope to see you there!
Best, L
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Be different.
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Hello everyone,
I hope you're doing well! Hereby a brief update about FIM4L activities.
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FIM4L<https://www.fim4l.org/> is a non-profit initiative led by libraries with the main purpose of creating and maintaining recommendations for configuring federated SSO authentication for library e-resources in the most privacy preserving way. It has a working group<https://libereurope.eu/working-group/liber-fim4l-working-group/> under the umbrella of LIBER<https://libereurope.eu/working-group/liber-fim4l-working-group/>, currently the base of FIM4L. FIM4L recommendations are published at the FIM4L website<https://www.fim4l.org/?page_id=257> and the Zenodo<https://zenodo.org/record/4118124#.X5GqWUIzblx> platform. Please join our Mailing List<https://lists.daasi.de/listinfo/fim4l> for information and discussions.
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ACTIVITIES
Promotion
* LIBER 2021 conference; lighting talk <https://liber2021.sched.com/event/iu1U> by Jos, June 23 • 11:00 - 12:30 CEST
* UKSG webinar, presentation and panel discussion; Lee, Heather, Kelechi (Elsevier), Jos. 14 July, 15:00 hr. CEST.
* IFLA WLIC 2021<https://www.ifla.org/wlic2021> 17-19 Aug.; presentation by Peter Gietz and Jos
* We plan to submit a proposal for the UKSG 2022 annual conference.
Endorsement of FIM4L recommendations
The following research library associations are supporting the FIM4L principles & recommendations:
* Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL-ABRC)<https://www.carl-abrc.ca/>,
* Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL)<https://www.caul.edu.au/>,
* LIBER<https://libereurope.eu/>,
* Research Libraries UK (RLUK)<https://www.rluk.ac.uk/>.
Towards a second version of FIM4L recommendations
We are working on a second version<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fae_IDch-wOkgnBD_3MaZCHOsQ7pLxzXvl7h7Vk…> of FIM4L recommendations. Comments are more than welcome. It's open for "anyone with the link" to comment. (FIM4L members have/can get edit rights, please let me know.)
The new version will be aligned with the new entity categories: FIM4L principle 4.A "transitory access" will meet REFEDS Anonymous Authorisation <https://refeds.org/category/anonymous> and FIM4L principle 4.B "personalized access" will meet REFEDS Pseudonymous Authorisation<https://refeds.org/category/pseudonymous>.
Especially 4.B is rewritten and the biggest change perhaps is that we introduced an "opt-out" option to not release a persistent identifier, while having the 4.B configuration in place. This enables us to recommend 4.B as the preferred configuration.
Other
We<https://libereurope.eu/working-group/liber-fim4l-working-group/members/> now have every two weeks a meeting of FIM4L on Tuesdays 16:00 hr, CEST. Rob (Duke University) and Ken (Internet2) and Heather (Seamless Access) joined our meetings and we talked about CAR<https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/CAR/CAR%3A+Consent-informed+Attribu…> software. CAR could be beneficial for implementing user consent on attribute release. Next meeting the second version of recommendations is on the agenda. If you would like to join, please let me know.
Raoul Teeuwen changed jobs and unfortunately had to leave FIM4L. We thank him for his great efforts!
All the best,
Jos
Jos Westerbeke
Library IT specialist/manager | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Library | 3062 PA Rotterdam | jos.westerbeke(a)eur.nl | +31 640295513
Hi all,
quite interesting for FIM4L and thus FYI:
On Mai, 20 the German Research Foundationy (Deutsche
Forschungsgesellschaft, DFG, one of the most influencial research
funding bodies in Germany) published a paper on "Data tracking in
research: aggregation and use or sale of usage data by academic
publishers"
(https://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/foerderung/programme/lis/datentracking_papi…)
with following contents:
1. Description of the current situation
2. The transformation of the major publishers and their relationshipwith
the academic community
2.1 Consequences of the transformation of publishers into data analytics
businesses
3. Types of Data mining
3.1 Third Party Data through Microtargeting
3.2 Bidstream Data and port scanning
3.3 Publisher spyware
4. Conclusion
Some sentences from the conclusion:
"Potentially, research tracking of this kind can fundamentally
contradict academic freedom and informational self-determination. It can
endanger scientists and hinder the freedom of competition in the field
of information provision. For this reason, scholars and academic
institutions must become aware of the problem and clarify the legal,
technical and ethical framework conditions of their information supply
–not least so as to avoid involuntarily violating applicable law, but
also to ensure that academics are appropriately informed and protected."
I think that in the light of such developments, our work gets even more
important.
Cheers,
Peter
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