Supporting security-oriented, inter-disciplinary research: crossing the social, clinical and geospatial domains

Sinnott, R.O., Doherty, T., Higgins, C., Lambert, P., McCafferty, S., Stell, A.J., Turner, K.J. and Watt, J.P. (2008) Supporting security-oriented, inter-disciplinary research: crossing the social, clinical and geospatial domains. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, 8-11 Sept 2008,

Abstract

How many people have had a chronic disease for longer than 5-years in Scotland? How has this impacted upon their choices of employment? Are there any geographical clusters in Scotland where a high-incidence of patients with such long-term illness can be found? How does the life expectancy of such individuals compare with the national averages? Such questions are important to understand the health of nations and the best ways in which health care should be delivered and measured for their impact and success. In tackling such research questions, e-Infrastructures need to provide tailored, secure access to an extensible range of distributed resources including primary and secondary e-Health clinical data; social science data, and geospatial data sets amongst numerous others. In this paper we describe the security models underlying these e-Infrastructures and demonstrate their implementation in supporting secure, federated access to a variety of distributed and heterogeneous data sets exploiting the results of a variety of projects at the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) at the University of Glasgow.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Keywords: Interdisciplinary e-research, virtual organisations, security, authorisation, single sign-on
• Status: Published
• Refereed: No
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Stell, Mr Anthony and Watt, Dr John and McCafferty, Ms Susan and Doherty, Mr Thomas and Sinnott, Professor Richard
• Authors: Sinnott, R.O., Doherty, T., Higgins, C., Lambert, P., McCafferty, S., Stell, A.J., Turner, K.J., and Watt, J.P.
• Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• College/School: University Services > IT Services > Computing Service; College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2008 The Author
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced with the permission of the author.