IRISC - International Conference on Identity in Research Infrastructure and Scientific Communication, Workshop

Are you a provider of  IT services for a research community?  Do you need to identify, authenticate and authorize researchers from various research organizations and countries? Would you like to influence to the practices of your discipline?

The IRISC2011 workshop will bring together representatives from communities of identity experts, users, funders and other stakeholders. Key aims of the workshop include:

• Raising overall awareness of the key technical and non-technical challenges, opportunities and developments in the area
• Facilitating the dialogue, exchange of the ideas, collaboration  and coordination between the identity infrastructures and disciplines 
• Identifying & discussing existing/emerging technologies, best practices and requirements for researcher identification

The workshop has two main interrelated themes:

• Identification of authors/creators of research papers and other scholarly works
• Identification for access management purposes, with a focus on federated identity management

Further information and online registration
http://irisc-workshop.org/irisc2011-helsinki/

Please note that the amount of Workshop attendees is limited to 120, so please register  soon to ensure your participation.

Organized and sponsored by: 

University of Leicester
CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.
FIMM –Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland
GEN2PHEN 
Academy of Finland
Ministry of Education and Culture
ESFRI, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures Biomedinfra
Wellcome Trust