Enabling efficient electronic collaboration between LIGO and other astronomy communities using federated identity and COmanage

Heather Flanagan; Marie Huynh; Ken Klingenstein; Scott Koranda; Benjamin Oshrin

doi:10.1117/12.925713

24 September 2012 Enabling efficient electronic collaboration between LIGO and other astronomy communities using federated identity and COmanage

Heather Flanagan, Marie Huynh, Ken Klingenstein, Scott Koranda, Benjamin Oshrin

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Proceedings Volume 8451, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II; 84511H (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925713
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

Identity federations throughout the world including InCommon in the United States, SURFnet in the Netherlands, DFN-AAI in Germany, GakuNin in Japan, and the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research have made federated identities available for a large number of astronomers, astrophysicists, and other researchers. The LIGO project has recently joined the InCommon federation and is beginning the process to both consume federated identities from outside of LIGO and to make the LIGO identities issued to collaboration members available for consumption by other research communities. Consuming federated identity, however, is only the beginning. Realizing the promise of multi-messenger astronomy requires efficient collaboration among individuals from multiple communities. Efficient collaboration begins with federated identity but also requires robust collaboration management platforms providing consistent, scalable identity and access control information to collaboration applications including wikis, calendars, mailing lists and science portals. LIGO, together with collaborators from Internet2, is building the COmanage suite of tools for Collaborative Organization Management. Using COmanage and leveraging federated identities we plan to streamline electronic collaboration between LIGO and other astronomy projects so that scientists spend less time managing accounts and access control and more time doing science.

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Heather Flanagan, Marie Huynh, Ken Klingenstein, Scott Koranda, and Benjamin Oshrin "Enabling efficient electronic collaboration between LIGO and other astronomy communities using federated identity and COmanage", Proc. SPIE 8451, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II, 84511H (24 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925713

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