Hello everyone,
I hope you're doing well! Hereby a brief update about FIM4L activities.
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FIM4L 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 under the umbrella of
LIBER, currently the base of FIM4L. FIM4L recommendations are published at the
FIM4L website and the
Zenodo platform. Please join our
Mailing List for information and discussions.
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ACTIVITIES
Promotion
Endorsement of FIM4L recommendations
The following research library associations are supporting the FIM4L principles & recommendations:
Towards a second version of FIM4L recommendations
We are working on a
second version 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
and FIM4L principle 4.B "personalized access" will meet
REFEDS Pseudonymous Authorisation.
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 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 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