Technical overview

Without the management of identity, no form of personalisation - provided, adapted or adaptive - is possible. Information about an individual's identity, their roles and their affiliations is required to provide targeted information to a user in a personalised environment.

The deployment of Sun's Identity Management software provides the necessary building blocks to construct the identity access infrastructure required by CPD-Eng. This should be seen as one of the steps towards membership of the UK Shibboleth Federation, although such membership is outside the scope of CPD-Eng.

CPD-Eng will integrate established systems to create a seamless, learner-centred environment. The project will result in the provision and coherent presentation of services, including desktop tools, which are both personal and personalised for learners and educators within the consortium partnerships, as well as the engineering sector.