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User Management Requirements for the European Virtual User Office (EVUO)

Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office

ESRF UP Work package 9: Feasibility study for a new Scientific Management Information System (SMIS)

• D. PORTE, ESRF, 09/12/2008

Menu EVUO description & motivations EVUO User Management Requirements

Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office

Menu EVUO description & motivations EVUO User Management Requirements

Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office (EVUO)

Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office Objective To study the feasibility of a generic, standard and flexible information system for managing the workflow from the scientific proposal to the publication. We have to write down a specification by the end of 2009!!

proposals

Y/N? Y/N?

WP9 Description Data key words:

• Users
• Laboratories
• Addresses
• Proposals
• Samples
• Reports
• Scheduling
• Safety

GRID

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Institutes concerned

23/9/08

11 Institutes concerned

9 already have a piece of software!!

Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office Motivations

For laboratories For Users

Are the needs drastically different in similar institutes?

• Simplify users’ life (WP7 workshop):
• Avoid multiple data entries
• Provide an homogeneous user interface
• Give an automatic way to record information
• etc…

Summer 2008 tour Summer 2008 tour October workshop

Outcome of the workshop Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office

Proposals samples scheduling Reports User/laboratories

• Several working groups could be set up so as to specify and to implement:
• A European users/laboratories database (data format, authentication, sharing information, …)
• A proposals/samples/scheduling management system
• A reports management system

Menu EVUO description & motivations EVUO User Management Requirements

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User management Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office

Proposals samples scheduling Reports European User/laboratories database

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Login Password Personal data (name, surname, affiliation, …. Unique ID

Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) ?

FAST (EuroFEL) EDNP GRID EVUO

User management, another view Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office

Proposals samples scheduling Reports European User/laboratories database

Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office

European User/laboratories database

Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office

Some facts and figures

• Several hundred new users every year
• Several hundred new affiliations
• Worldwide users

User management must:

• To provide a unique identifier
• To share user information between the different

laboratories (name, surname, affiliation…)

• Authentication, Authorization and Accounting ?

The requirements for the User management are:

• Fast and secure unique ID delivery
• Users must feel confident with the global mechanism
• ID provider must be reliable and permanently accessible
• Mechanism must be widely distributed

Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office Feasibility Study for a European Virtual User Office Which system matches the best to our user management requirements?

• GRID certificate ?
• Shibboleth ?
• OpenID ?
• Private certificate ?
• Others ?

http://www.esrf.fr/events/conferences/esrf-up-work-package-9 http://evuo.esrf.eu WP9 description WP9 WIKI