Capability-Based Authorization for HEP

Outside the HEP computing ecosystem, it is vanishingly rare to encounter user X509 certificate authentication (and proxy certificates are even more rare). The web never widely adopted the user certificate model, but increasingly sees the need for federated identity services and distributed authorization. For example, Dropbox, Google and Box instead use bearer tokens issued via the OAuth2 protocol to authorize actions on their services. Thus, the HEP ecosystem has the opportunity to reuse recent work in industry that now covers our needs. We present a token-based ecosystem for authorization tailored for use by CMS. We base the tokens on the SciTokens profile for the standardized JSON Web Token (JWT) format. The token embeds a signed description of what capabilities the VO grants the bearer; the site-level service can verify the VO’s signature without contacting a central service. In this paper, we describe the modifications done to enable token-based authorization in various software packages used by CMS, including XRootD, CVMFS, and HTCondor. We describe the token-issuing workflows that would be used to get tokens to running jobs in order to authorize data access and file stageout, and explain the advantages for hosted web services. Finally, we outline what the transition would look like for an experiment like CMS.

Speech Analytics in Research Based on Qualitative Interviews

The paper presents aims and results of the project KA³ (Kölner Zentrum Analyse und Archivierung von audio-visual-Daten), in which advanced speech technologies are developed and provided to enhance the process of indexing and analysing speech recordings from the oral history domain and the language sciences. Close cooperation between speech technology scientists and digital humanities researchers is an important aspect of the project making sure that the development of the technologies answers the needs of research based on qualitative audio-visual interviews. For practical research reasons, the project focuses on the audio aspect, although visual aspects are of course equally important for the analysis of audio-visual data. The Cologne Centre for Analysis and Archiving of audio-visual data will provide the technologies as a central service.

PERPUSTAKAAN SEBAGAI SENTRAL SERVIS BENIH (SUMBER) INFORMASI

Penelitian ini berjudul perpustakaan sebagai sentral servis benih (sumber) informasi. Tujuan dari penulis yaitu untuk mengetahui benih (sumber) informasi yang tersedia di perpustakaan dan konsep servis informasi di perpustakaaan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kepustakaan. Cara pengumpulan data menggunakan buku, jurnal, dan makalah yang berkaitan dengan materi tersebut. Penelitian ini mengarahkan agar perpustakaan sebagai sentral servis benih (sumber) informasi. Untuk mendapatkan informasi kita harus kenal dulu dengan sumber informasi yang tersedia di dalam perpustakaan. Sumber informasi tersebut seperti sumber informasi primer, sekunder, tersier, dan terbitan berseri, koleksi referensi dan servis informasinya harus ditingkatkan secara mutakhir untuk menunjang kegiatan sevitas akademika.ABSTRACT This research is entitled a library as a central servicing of information resources. The purpose of the writer is to know the seeds (sources) of information available in the library and the concept of service information in the library. This research uses the library (literature) method. Data collected using books, journals, and papers related to the material. This research directs the library as a central service for information resources. To get the information we need to know first with the resources available in the library. The information sources such as resources, primary, secondary, tertiary, and serial publications, reference collection and servicing of cutting-edge information must be upgraded to support the activities of academic sevitas.

Inviting people in: Participatory displays in the library

Located on a small campus serving approximately 750 graduate students pursuing professional master’s degrees, our centrally situated library at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, remains open longer than any other department. At least one staff member and one student assistant is always available for service. When students enter the library, our front desk, and the people who work there, are the first sights they see. With a central service desk, students can quickly learn where to go when they have questions just by walking in and out of the library. Nonetheless, it can be easy for students to walk past the desk without interacting with us. Approaching our large, L-shaped front desk can be intimidating, especially for the many students who may not be aware that the librarians want to help, and that it is appropriate to speak with us, as well as the student assistants. To help spark conversations and foster relationships between library users and the staff, we have taken advantage of our entryway lobby to create a welcoming environment and invite participation.

RFID TO USE CUSTOMERS OF SERVICE

Maintenance services are an important role of customer office processes, starting at sales and ending utilization. The paper analyzes communications ways of consumer with central service, focused on presentation mobile application to identify the most efficient form of service orders.

Center for Open Science: Response to ASAPbio RFA for a Preprint Service

The Center for Open Science (COS) and technical partners propose to extend its open infrastructure to support ASAPbio's call for a central service. COS's approach is community based and is accompanied by letters of support from 12 preprint services (e.g., arXiv, bioRxiv, SocArXiv), 15 data repositories (e.g., Dryad, Protein Data Bank, figshare), and 5 other stakeholders (e.g., HHMI, Health Research Alliance, GBSI).