Dear all, (apologies for any cross posting)

This email is a request for the participation of organisations who manage 
e-resources with a federated login option.

Participation will involve taking part in a day-long workshop aimed at 
gathering an understanding of the views of organisations who provide 
e-resources with regards discovery in a federated world. The workshop is 
to take place on June 23rd 2009, between 10AM and 4PM, at Cardiff 
University (in Cardiff, UK), and is open to all types of relevant 
organisations - from small to large commercial publishers, academic 
institutions hosting federated resources, etc. Reasonable travel expenses 
will be reimbursed for participants.

This is a part of a JISC sponsored study, run by Cardiff University, 
looking into the provision of appropriate user interfaces to discovery in 
a federated world - in short, looking at the best way to design a website 
so that users can successfully find a "login" link, be presented with a 
set of possible institutions so that they can choose where they are from, 
and start the federated login process. The project aims to produce solid 
guidance on how to best accomplish this, in terms of design, terminology, 
whether to use a built-in WAYF service or a federation WAYF service, etc. 
Further information about the project can be found at 
https://fam-utils.cf.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/Projects/SPIntS/WebHome

The main aim of the workshop is to understand and record views from 
publishers of e-resources around their thoughts on discovery - including 
why they have implemented discovery as they already have, what constraints 
they work under when designing their services, and so forth.

Benefits of attending the workshop will be twofold:
* Firstly, attendees will be helping to influence the guidance which will 
be produced for the benefit of all
* Secondly, attendees may gain thoughts and ideas on how to better improve 
the interface to their resources.

If you are interested in taking part in this workshop, please contact 
Sarah England at Cardiff University - [log in to unmask] - by Friday 
12th June to register your interest. If you are intending on claiming 
travel expenses, please provide an estimate of the amount to be claimed 
for planning purposes.

Finally, please forward on this request to anyone you think may be 
interested in taking a part in this research.

Best Regards,
The JISC SP Interface Study Project Team.

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Rhys Smith                                      e: [log in to unmask] 
Engineering Consultant: Identity & Access Management   (GPG:0xDE2F024C)
Information Services, 
Cardiff University,                            t: +44 (0) 29 2087 0126
39-41 Park Place, Cardiff,                     f: +44 (0) 29 2087 4285
CF10 3BB, United Kingdom.                      m: +44 (0) 7968 087 821
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