Hello everyone,
I hope you're doing well! Hereby a brief update about FIM4L activities.
---------- FIM4Lhttps://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 grouphttps://libereurope.eu/working-group/liber-fim4l-working-group/ under the umbrella of LIBERhttps://libereurope.eu/working-group/liber-fim4l-working-group/, currently the base of FIM4L. FIM4L recommendations are published at the FIM4L websitehttps://www.fim4l.org/?page_id=257 and the Zenodohttps://zenodo.org/record/4118124#.X5GqWUIzblx platform. Please join our Mailing Listhttps://lists.daasi.de/listinfo/fim4l for information and discussions. ----------
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 2021https://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/, * LIBERhttps://libereurope.eu/, * Research Libraries UK (RLUK)https://www.rluk.ac.uk/.
Towards a second version of FIM4L recommendations
We are working on a second versionhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1fae_IDch-wOkgnBD_3MaZCHOsQ7pLxzXvl7h7VkYAlc/edit 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 Authorisationhttps://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
Wehttps://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 CARhttps://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/CAR/CAR%3A+Consent-informed+Attribute+Release+system 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@eur.nl | +31 640295513