[Tf-aai] Information about Korp, AAI, etc

[Brian MacWhinney]

Thanks for the pointer to 3.1 documentation.  That can help.

--Brian

> On Sep 10, 2020, at 9:37 AM, Martin Matthiesen <martin.matthiesen at csc.fi> wrote:
> 
> Dear AAI Taskforce,
> 
> Brian MacWhinney from CMU (cc) has problems with Shibboleth. I'll add my own suggestions below, but my knowledge is a bit outdated and maybe CSC specific.
> Would anyone know pointers for Brian?
> 
>> It would be great if you or Dieter could provide some help with installation of
>> Shibboleth.  My programmer has found the whole system very badly documented and
>> opaque.  His point of view is that there should be some standard installation
>> that just works.  When he shifted to newer versions of Ubuntu, he had to
>> upgrade to Shibboleth 3 and then nothing worked anymore and the documentation
>> is for Shibboleth 2.
> 
> I assume you are setting up a Service Provider. My experience is onlv with version 2 and not on Ubuntu but CentOS/RedHat. So I would consider CentOS as an alternative.
> 
> I have not tried this guide, but I know Switch is quite advanced with Shibboleth: https://www.switch.ch/aai/guides/sp/installation/
> 
>> To be honest, we may just decide not to implement it at
>> all, because so much of our material is open access, but if there is any real
>> CLARIN support for getting it running that could make a difference.
> 
> I can see the temptation, but would argue that it sets you back in the long run. After all speech data is relatively sensitive by nature, or at least quickly can turn sensitive, depending what the subjects say.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin