Workshop

IMS Content Packaging version 1.2

Nigel Ward, Australian ADL Partnership Lab

Presentation: HTML | Powerpoint (928KB)

IMS Content Packaging is the most widely implemented of all IMS specifications. It describes structures that can be used to exchange data between systems that wish to import, export, aggregate and disaggregate packages of content.

No major functionality has been added to the specification since the release of version 1.1 in April 2001. IMS is now developing a new version of the specification which adds new functionality for the first time since version 1.1.

This workshop gives an overview of the new functionality being incorporated into the specification.

Workshop

Shibboleth^®, SAML and XACML

Erik Vullings, Macquarie E-Learning Centre of Excellence

Presentation: HTML | Powerpoint (3.8MB)

Shibboleth^® is standards-based, open source implementation of the OASIS SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) standard. It provides cross-organisation Single Sign-On (SSO) and attribute exchange.

The OASIS XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) standard provides a way of expressing policies for authorising access to protected content within repositories.

This workshop will provide an introduction to using Shibboleth, SAML and XACML to provide federated access management.

Workshop

Managing persistent identifiers using Handles^®

Dan Rehak, ADL Workforce co-lab

Presentation: HTML | Powerpoint (1.9MB)

The Handles^® System enables a distributed computer system to store identifiers, known as handles, of arbitrary resources and resolve those handles into the information necessary to locate, access, contact, authenticate, or otherwise make use of the resources. This information can be changed as needed to reflect the current state of the identified resource without changing its identifier, thus allowing the name of the item to persist over changes of location and other related state information.

This workshop provides an introduction to the Handles^® System. It will include examples of how handles are being used to manage support federated discovery of across repositories.