Perhaps it was as clear as mud.
The majority of users have to click on the Athens button in order to login with their institutional
username and password.
Changing the UK Federation button to "Login via your institution ID" will be just as confusing, if
not more so, at this time.
We'd have to tell users to ignore the button that says "Login with your institutional ID", click on
the Athens button instead, and then login with your institutional ID!
But I do agree, the phrase UK Federation is meaningless to users.
Sue
>>> Jane CHARLTON <[log in to unmask]> 04/07/2007 12:29:27 >>>
I agree we're a bit stuck with the 3 login buttons for the moment, but maybe we could at least
change the one that says "Login via UK Federation" to "Login via your institutional ID" or "Login
via your institutional username and password"
Jane
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From: Discussion list for Shibboleth developments on behalf of Sue Stevens
Sent: Wed 04/07/2007 12:11
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Federation gateways - using TRLs
Oh, yes I agree.
But unfortunately it's not as simple as that.
For example, EDINA resources list three login buttons, which are currently labelled:
Login via Athens
Login via direct access
Login via UK Federation
Now, all these buttons work for our users. But, you could use your institutional username and
password to login via both the Athens and the UK Federation routes, depending on whether your
institution is using AthensDa, the Shibb to Athens Gateway or the UK Federation.
So changing the UK Federation button to institutional username would work for those resources that
are live on the Federation. But it would be a problem for an institution using AthensDA or the
Shibb
to Athens Gateway for resources not on the Federation because you still need to use the Athens
button, but with an institutional username. And at the moment, that still means the majority of
resources.
Clear?
As mud...
The Shibb stuff is great, our users love it. But explaining what they have to do to get logged in
sure was easier when all we had was a classic Athens login box and every institution used the
same!
If anyone has some neat presentation idea, we'd be glad to hear it!
Sue
>>> Jane CHARLTON <[log in to unmask]> 04/07/2007 11:41:35 >>>
Sorry! this is a sidetrack from the issue about using TRLs - I think it would be more
straighforward for the user if the login page simply said "please log-in using your institutional
username and password" instead of "login via UK Federation" as most of them won't know what this
is
and it will confuse them.
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From: Discussion list for Shibboleth developments on behalf of Alistair Young
Sent: Wed 04/07/2007 09:59
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Federation gateways - using TRLs
This is the hot topic here too. Just wondering what the chances are of these appearing in the uk
federation as SPs in their own right? We're not sure what way to go just now. Our users are seeing
more and more "login via uk federation" links alongside "alternative login" links (gateway). Do
you
think these journal level articles will be available as resources in the federation? Or will they
more likely be behind something like SS, which could then act as an SP in the fed?
Alistair
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On 4 Jul 2007, at 09:28, Sue Stevens wrote:
Hi Masha,
We're grappling with exactly the same questions here at Cardiff and are using TRLs.
Our discoveries so far indicate that you can do journal level linking via the Gateway so
long as
the DSP supports it. The down side to that of course is having to find what the syntax
should be and
then test it with all your DSPs.
We have only just started looking at this, but I can tell you Ovid support is as I've been
testing
it with them. Here's an example of the syntax for the Journal of Cell Biology on Ovid via
our IdP
and the Federation gateway:
https://idp.cardiff.ac.uk/shibboleth-idp/SSO?providerId=https%3A%2F%2Fsh
ibboleth.ovid.com%2Fentity&shire=https%3A%2F%2Fshibboleth.ovid.com%2FShi
bboleth.sso%2FSAML%2FPOST&target=https%3A%2F%2Fshibboleth.ovid.com%2Fsec
ure%3FT%3DJS%26NEWS%3DN%26PAGE%3Dtoc%26SEARCH%3D00004639%2D000000000%2D0
0000%2Ekc%26LINKTYPE%3DasBody%26LINKPOS%3D1%26D%3Dovft
You can do the same type of linking with Ovid via the Shibb Athens gateway too:
http://auth.athensams.net/?ath_dspid=ATHENS&ath_action=shaauth&id=https:
//idp.cardiff.ac.uk/shibboleth&ath_returl=http://auth.athensams.net/trl/
1.0/-/OVID_ONLINE%3FT%3DJS%26NEWS%3DN%26PAGE%3Dtoc%26SEARCH%3D00004639-0
00000000-00000.kc%26LINKTYPE%3DasBody%26LINKPOS%3D1%26D%3Dovft
If you're familiar with Ovid at all you'll see it's the same "jumpstart" syntax they use
for
a
classic Athens login, but with the Shibb gateway stuff on the front. For completeness
here's
the
classic Athens version of the above:
http://gateway.ovid.com/athens/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=N&PAGE=toc&SEARCH=00004639-000000000-00000.kc&LINKTYPE=asBody&LINKPOS=1&D=ovft
Sorry I've only got examples for this one DSP so far. Another 100 and something to go...
We also use Serials Solutions, but haven't worked out what we're going to do about that
yet.
Ditto,
walk-in users.
Would be happy to share more with you, and vice-versa, when we have it.
Regards,
Sue
Sue Stevens
Head of Library Systems
Information Services
Cardiff University
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Cardiff
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United Kingdom
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Masha Garibyan <[log in to unmask]> 03/07/2007 20:59:22 >>>
Dear all,
I wonder if those of you who are already using the Federation gateways to
provide Shib access to e-resources, would mind sharing your experiences
with the London School of Economics.
LSE was one of the first institutions to start testing the Gateways. When
we started testing our Gateway-compliant resources, it appeared that a
persistent cookie was set when a user accessed a Gateway resource, so that
if the user then went to access a non-gateway compliant resource, he would
still be directed to the Gateway WAYF, not Classic Athens. Because some
key LSE resources were non-gateway compliant (e.g. Westlaw), that wasn't
an option for us. Eventually Eduserv suggested using TRLs (their
persistent URLs) to overcome the problem. There are two types of TRLs that
can be used - one for gateway compliant resources (sets a single session
cookie) and one for non-compliant (doesn't set the cookie). This solved
the 'cookie' issue but created a new one in that TRLs can only be used for
top-level URLs (eg a database homepage), and not individual journals, and
LSE provides access to both.
My questions are:
1) Have you used/ are you using TRLs?
2) If you have to provide Gateway access at journal title level, how do
you do that (LSE uses Serials Solutions to provide access to individual
journals, so any examples of Gateway use with SS would be particularly
welcome!)
3) If you provide access for walk-in users, how do you display resource
links for users (ie separate them from the 'shib'/gateway links).
Many thanks in advance,
Masha Garibyan
LSE Library Projects Team
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