The Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE), is operated by UNAVCO and funded by the NSF and NASA. The GAGE project’s mission is to provide support to the larger NSF investigator community for geodesy, earth sciences research, education, and workforce development. During the second half of 2020, GAGE and the Trusted CI/CI CoE Identity Management working group collaborated on an engagement to design a working proof of concept for integrating federated identity into GAGE’s researcher data portal.
The Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Pilot (CI CoE) is a Trusted CI partner, specializing in providing expertise and active support to CI practitioners at the NSF major facilities in order to accelerate the data lifecycle and ensure the integrity and effectiveness of the CI upon which research and discovery depends. The Identity Management working group is a joint effort between the CI CoE and Trusted CI to provide subject matter expertise and advice to major facilities on trust and identity issues, best practices and implementation. The working group's target audience is NSF funded major facilities, but participation in the working group is open to anyone in higher education and IAM.
The engagement began in July 2020 with a month long series of interviews between working group members and GAGE department leadership. GAGE came into the engagement with a series of needs that had arisen from practice and with a request from NSF to collect information on how their research data was being used. The working group used the interviews to identify key systems and areas of impact in order to present GAGE with a design for integrating federated identity into their data portal using elements of InCommon’s Trusted Access Platform.
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