Jonathan
I am forwarding your message to the shibboleth discussion list where some of
the people who have already implemented the gateway procedures are more
likely to be lurking!
I'm surprised to hear that more resources are AthensDA compliant than
gateway compliant as I thought the same non-compliancy issues would affect
both systems...would be interested to find out more!
Community pressure on Westlaw *is* starting to make an impact, and they are
starting to talk about implementing shibboleth at a much earlier date than
previously suggested. They are likely to go straight for
shibboleth-compliance rather than gateway compliance though...but this
should make very little difference for a shibbolised institution in the long
run!
Hope this helps
Nicole
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From: Discussion list for Athens Administrators
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Sent: 26 January 2006 10:27
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Subject: [ATHENS] Shibboleth-Athens Gateway and Athens DA
We are currently looking at the Shibboleth-Athens Gateway in the hope of
going live in September 2006.
1. Please could I ask other sites who have done/are planning this:
- How do/will you manage ongoing Classic Athens accounts? - e.g.
do/will you still bulk upload?
- How do/will you get the cookie set in your users' browsers? e.g. two
possible approaches are MMU's who have a prominent link on the Library
home page, and Durham's who use the links in the catalogue to set cookie
then redirect to resource
2. It looks as if more resources are Athens DA compliant than are
Shib-Athens compliant - a particular problem for us is Westlaw. Have any
sites taken the decision to use Athens DA rather than Shib-Athens for
this reason?
3. Would anyone from other sites be prepared to discuss their
experiences more generally with us? If so, please could they get back to
me off-list?
Thanks,
Jonathan
Jonathan Hooper
Leeds University Library
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