Analysis and news Scenario


Users access a website or resource that provides full-text articles with no need for personalisation


Users access a website that provides personalised content recommendations based on your search history in previous visits


Faculty have the ability to purchase ebooks using library funds


Clinicians receive email confirmation of Continuing Education credits received


Table 2


attributes received. If more information is desired from users, consent must be sought and users should have the opportunity to add/review/edit the information they share, such as via a profile page; or


• Attributes shouldn’t be used by service providers for non-access purposes without prior consent or proper legal basis, and should be deleted or anonymised when no longer needed for service access.


And what does that mean in practice?


Attribute release needs to vary according to the differing needs of service providers. For example, here are four different real- world scenarios (table 2, above) and the attributes needed to support them. Getting this right requires co-ordination


in organisations to ensure that the attributes released by internal identity systems (typically controlled by IT) reflect the needs of the users and the services they want to access (typically managed by other departments, such as the library). These conversations need to start with a


Attributes released Anonymous attributes Pseudonymous ID


common understanding of the critical role attribute release plays in resource access. Can we make this co-ordination easier?


Pseudonymous ID, User role


Pseudonymous ID, User email address (with user consent)


Yes! We all face a similar challenge in managing how we share information via social networks – it’s much easier to arrange your contacts into groups (friends, family, work etc) and to set rules on sharing at the group level, rather than manually configuring for each person. The Coalition for Seamless Access is similarly exploring how service providers could be grouped into categories based on their attribute requirements. This would allow organisations to automate attribute release based on a service provider’s category, rather than manually configuring attributes for each service provider. For example, attributes to enable


access to library resources are typically far more limited than those needed to support research collaboration between academics in different institutions.


Tim Lloyd is CEO of LibLynx


If you’d like to learn more about The Coalition for Seamless Access, or would you like to get involved in the development of standards in this area, please visit https://seamlessaccess.org/


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