Facilitators
Markus Buchhorn (Intersect), Lyle Winton (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative), Clare Sloggett (Intersect) and Neil Witheridge (ARCS)
Abstract
This BoF will consist of several short presentations from people across the eResearch community on existing authorisation problems, ideas and developments, followed by an open discussion. We would like to discuss emerging activities, solutions, common needs, and if there is value in establishing a community of interest.
About the facilitators
Lyle Winton is the business development manager for VeRSI (http://versi.edu.au/) responsible for knowledge transfer and cross-project analysis. Lyle was formerly a senior research support officer with the eScholarship Research Centre (http://www.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/), supporting the research community and eResearch initiatives at the University of Melbourne, and also a consultant to the DEEWR(DEST)/JISC lead international e-Framework for Education and Research (http://www.e-framework.org/). Lyle’s background is in experimental high energy physics and in distributed computing, having worked as a research fellow at the University of Melbourne and involved in large-scale collaborative international research. For several years Lyle worked as an IT professional in software design, development and project management. Lyle was also involved with the university's high performance computing facility, the APAC National Grid, the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR), the ARROW/ANDS persistent identifier project and the Victorian Life-Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI).
Neil Witheridge has broad experience in software engineering, working for both government and commercial research organisations. He was involved in management of the MAMS and AAF projects contributing to the deployment of Shibboleth for Australian Higher Education use. He is currently Manager Authorisation Services, for the Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS). His team's role is to provide a unified authorisation infrastructure to deliver effective and efficient protection of eResearch Services provided by ARCS and Australian research groups. The AAF is key to ARCS' authorisation services strategy.