SCIENCE
Internet2 Middleware Initiative awarded NSF grant to enhance research collaboration
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year $2.65 million grant to the Internet2 Middleware Initiative to advance collaboration for virtual organizations (VOs).
Over the last decade, the Internet2 community has developed foundational authentication and authorization tools such as Shibboleth Federated and Single Sign-on System, Grouper Groups Management Toolkit, and COmanage Collaborative Management Platform. The work funded by this new grant will combine these software components together into a toolkit that will facilitate access to distributed resources and applications by domain science projects and other virtual organizations.
Merchant explains that “iPlant was created specifically to address the growing need for providing access to these integrated capabilities through web based applications but also through Application Programming Interfaces (API). This grant will facilitate extensions to the identity management infrastructure, permitting more secure and broader use of iPlant capabilities by allowing our users to leverage their home institution credentials to easily access iPlant-based resources in ways that enrich their collaboration strategies.”