Inter-Institutional Collaboration Environment Demonstrated at Internet2

The inter-institutional collaboration environment being built for the UABgrid that enables simple virtual organization creation and management was demonstrated at the Internet2 Spring 2005 Member Meeting in Arlington, VA.

This collaboration environment leverages Shibboleth to enable VO identity and role attributes to be defined and shared across application and administrative boundaries and enables users to participate using their institutionaly defined identity and credential systems. The applications currently available are: Sympa, a mailing list manager which defines the VO; WebInsta, a document sharing tool; Drupal, a content management system; and phpWiki, a collaborative editor.

Our goal is to create an environment that enables collaborations among a relatively small part of the population for users that don't have administrative authority over anything but their own VO and it's associated resources.