Hi Eric,

I see that your institution is a member of InCommon. It is likely that your IdM 
group will have implemented a default attribute release policy that is based 
around InCommon conventions. JSTOR is also a member of InCommon, so there 
should be some common expectations.

Use of Shibboleth has really expanded over the last N years. On our campus is 
now used heavily for all sorts of applications outside of the library: 
administrative systems, granting agencies, etc., lots of internal and external 
SPs. A far cry from the early-adoption days.

I suggest talking to your IdM group how this transition might work, what 
concerns you might have, and whether they would share those concerns.

-Tod

Tod Olson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Systems Librarian
Interim Head of Integrated Library Systems
University of Chicago Library

On Mar 25, 2021, at 10:50 AM, Hammer, Erich F 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hi.

We are just starting to investigate moving access some of our larger eResource 
vendors away from going through EZProxy and onto SSO/Shibboleth.  Our test case 
is JSTOR, and our Identity Management group that supports Shibboleth is asking 
about other libraries using the eduPersonEntitlement attribute.  We are 
specifically NOT interested in OpenAthens.

I'm also interested to know if anyone has a handle on a "standard" Shib 
attribute used by most/many of the larger vendors, or if this is going to be a 
rabbit hole where every vendor wants a different attribute and repeatedly 
negotiating with the IDM group for changes will put us on the "bad list".

I'm open to other comments and criticisms about the whole idea too.

Thanks,
Erich


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