Authentication & Project and User Management: Functions

Authenticate

TextGrid uses Shibboleth for authentication purposes. The Shibboleth authentication and authorization architecture allows for cross-domain single sign-on and removes the need for content or service providers to maintain user names and passwords. Users are authenticated via identity information stored with their home IdP (identity provider).

Create and Manage Projects

Projects in TextGrid are used to manage access to objects (e.g. TEI/XML texts, XSLT adaptors, images). Any TextGrid object belongs to a project. TextGrid users can start a new project in order to create or copy objects. Objects belonging to a project are listed in the Navigator View. Currently projects, once created, cannot be deleted.

Add Users to Projects and Assign Roles

The creator of a project can select other TextGrid users, associate them with the project and assign specific roles to them. Users to be selected must previously have logged in to TextGridLab at least once.

Contents

• Authentication
• Creating a New Project
• Adding Users and Assigning Roles
• Deleting Roles from Users
• Managing (Adding, Copying, Publishing) Resources in a Project"