About SWAMI
Swedish Alliance for Middleware Infrastructure, SWAMI, is the organisation for middleware cooperation in the Swedish higher education community.
The goal of SWAMI is to build a sustainable organisational framework for, mutually beneficial, cooperation in matters relating to middleware infrastructure within the Swedish higher education community.
In this field there are many areas where cooperation has the potential to be very rewarding for the participating partners. Some of these are
- General sharing of knowledge and experiences through workshops and conferences
- Sharing the costs for development and adaptation of applications and infrastructural systems
- Sharing the costs for examining alternatives in technical choices for common needs
SWAMI has the ambition to support these and other ways of harvesting the benefits of cooperation. The potential for cooperation to bear fruit is greater when several institutions adopt similar solutions. Therefore, SWAMI will develop recommendations for different middleware components and procedures. For the development of joint services and systems, like roaming internet access and a national student admittance system, there is a need for harmonising some aspects of identity management and attribute release. Harmonisation issues of this sort are also an area where the SWAMI framework is useful.
SWAMI also has the ambition to provide support for institutions that have not yet but are planning to adopt a middleware infrastructure strategy. This support can take the shape of working out recommended roadmaps. Furthermore, SWAMI can, where feasible, fill a function by putting together pre-packaged solutions for integrating some of the most common AAI components.
SWAMI is governed by the SWAMI Council which is advised by the Expert Team. Activities and projects are detailed on this website.
Källa: SWAMI
Uppdaterad: 2006-11-20