[humanities-dev] Federated ID for TEXTUS

Thu Feb 23 09:14:26 UTC 2012

My vote is for Open ID or rolling our own.

I found it very easy to use Open ID on sites like Hootsuite even before I knew I had an account!

Problem is will it stump those without google or yahoo accounts?

S

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On 23 Feb 2012, at 08:35, Jonathan Gray <j.gray at cantab.net> wrote:

> Unless we can making signing up with OpenID *really* unbelievably
> streamlined and easy, my vote would be for rolling our own. I would
> guess that users of sites like OpenPhilosophy.org will probably not
> have much technical experience and OpenID sign in could be a barrier.
> 
> J.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Tom Oinn <tom.oinn at okfn.org> wrote:
>> To use TEXTUS users are going to have to identify themselves (or at
>> least to use most of its interesting features). Do we have a
>> preference for how this happens? This is just how we acquire the user
>> ID and verify it, not where the user's data is stored, a few options
>> would be:
>> 
>> OpenID - widely used, anyone with a Google or Yahoo! account has an
>> OpenID even if they don't know it
>> Facebook Connect - authenticate against facebook accounts, never used
>> this but it's an option
>> Roll our own - more hassle, users have to remember logins and
>> passwords specific to this system, they'll inevitably end up using the
>> same ones as they use for the email accounts, we have to verify
>> accounts etc
>> 
>> As you might have guessed I'm in favour of OpenID or, if we must,
>> rolling our own. I have a strong objection to Facebook Connect due to
>> that company's cavalier attitude towards privacy, user data etc, but
>> it does work for this kind of thing. Of course, if someone were to
>> turn round and point out a cross-OKFN standard way of doing this
>> that'd be even better.
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
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