innovative technology services
Eduserv DSP Seminar 2006 - Service development ideas
Individual Subscriptions - Individual subscription service for users that do not have an institutional or organisational affiliation.
Personalisation Engine - Personalisation and identity are closely linked. The Personalisation engine would provide a mechanism for Service Providers to retrieve personalisation data in a standard format such as (WSRP). End users would have an interface by which they could manage this data.
Solicited Marketing - Unsolicited marketing can waste valuable resources and has the potential to alienate future customers. Obtaining consent from end users enables Service Providers to target users with appropriate messages to promote their business.
Shared Bookmarks - With the increasing use of shared bookmarks and other ways of tagging valuable resources, academic materials could be easily enhanced by allowing moderated individuals at an institution to mark the resource in a way that is relevant for their users.
Service Provider Portlets - Many web services allow users to add components that are useful or relevant to them. Service Provider Portlets would allow users to add items that would be useful to them.
Collaboration Tools - Tools such as bulletin boards, mailing lists, user forums etc could be built into MyAthens to enable users to form ad-hoc groups for collaboration.
Two Factor Authentication - In some situations username and password credentials are considered to offer an insufficient level of authentication. With the adoption of local authentication procedures (AthensDA) it may be useful for Service Providers to know that the user had been required to use a tougher level of authentication by their home organisation.
Fine Grain Authorisation - Authorisation based on the user’s role allowing Service Providers to automatically provide access to specialised materials for appropriate user groups within an organisation.
3rd Party Attribute Exchange - Many identity and access management environments work on the basis of an identity and corresponding attributes being managed by a single identity provider. Indeed in many situations the identity provider has a direct interest and direct relationship with the actual users. The consumers of users’ identities and attributes (Service Providers) rely on the trust and authenticity of the information supplied to them.
Attribute data associated with users could be maintained by multiple authorative sources and made available securely to the interested party when appropriate and with the consent of the individual involved. The third party attribute exchange is a concept that allows this data to be supplied safely and with appropriate levels of assurance to a Service Provider.