Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute – Security Portlets (OMII-SP) project focused on supporting fine grained security of portals exploiting Shibboleth access to and usage of e-Resources available within those portals. Through development of tailored JSR-168 compliant portlets supporting the scoping, release and recognition of digitally signed security attributes, fine-grained policies on access and usage of portal contents was achieved. A paper describing the outputs of OMII-SP is given here.

Dynamic Virtual Organisations for e-Science Education (DyVOSE): explored advanced security infrastructures for e-Science education. DyVOSE showed how advanced authorization infrastructures could be seamlessly linked to a range of e-Resources, and importantly how such security infrastructures could be dynamically established and rolled out on a federated virtual organisation basis (without assuming a centralized authorization service model as per other efforts). This is much aligned with scalable e-Research models. Through this model we were able to dynamically establish fine-grained security driven virtual organizations, which allow for example to address licensing issues and protection of Intellectual Property. A paper describing the outputs of DyVOSE is given here.