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This page is for people who want to know more about the infrastructure the SCZ-project is trying build building & pilotpiloting. The project also examines whether and, if so, how the SCZ can be offered by SURF as a service.

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Currently, for every new research the wheel is reinvented to arrange for the things mentioned. Collaborations and research are delayed in the start-up phase because providing access takes time. The SCZ project wants to offer a "as a service"-solution for authentication and authorization.

How does SCZ provide a solution?

In the Science Collaboration Zone SCZ project, we want to:

• Ensure that parties who want to share resources can do so by simple smoothly (and only once) connecting the resource to the SCZ proxy. The SCZ solution takes care, amongst others, of making the service available via eduGAIN.

• Provide an environment where institutions and cooperative organisations can quickly request a collaboration group, assign group managers and then manage that group themselves, invite people, etc.

• Provide a possibility to manage specific attributes per collaborative organisation.

• Ensure that people without an edu account can also easily be invited and access the resources, where possible with a higher 'Level of Assurance' than with a social identity.

• Ensure that non-web resources like SSH and WebDav can be approached via federated authentication (eg institutional account) (for the benefits of federated authentication see "Why federative"? ).

• Ensure that an institution only has to join the SCZ once in order to give all its researchers (via one or more collaborations) access to the participating services and resources of their collaborations.

To get an extra idea of what SCZ wants to offer, here we share the 'user stories' (in broad outline) for which we want to offer a solution with SCZ.

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• UvA/HvA
• BBMRI (UMCs). For the Health-RI event of Dec 8th 2017 a poster was crafted to show the value of COmanage for collaborations like BBMRI:
  

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• RUG (university of Groningen) (initially to assist in accessing their Virtual Workspace service)
• U2Connect (iRODS)
• CLARIAH
• Aeneas (Astron)

Parties Other parties that have shown an interest / have contacted SCZ: Deltares, TraIT / Lygature, TUe, Donders Institute, VUmc, uTwente / NLeScience City Cloud Project, AuthorE / TrustDocA / Erasmus MC, SURFsara (Research Cloud).

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