[humanities-dev] Federated ID for TEXTUS

Thu Feb 23 09:23:06 UTC 2012

Perhaps we could ask some senior academics to register with some
existing OpenID service with their university accounts, and seeing how
they fare? I'd wager that the ones I know would struggle. But perhaps
my knowledge of OpenID is based on outdated information - my
experience using it is mainly from a few years ago.

Could also be worth speaking to CKAN team about why they phased out
support for OpenID on TheDataHub.org?

J.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Sam Leon <okfn.sam.leon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from a mobile device
>
> 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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