Datasphir Glossary

BonafID- Life-long Identity for Education in Africa. BonafID provides a federated identity and access management platform for NREN Communities. 

DAASI is one of the leading providers for Open Source software in the areas of federated Identity & Access Management as well as Digital Humanities. 

A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique, persistent identifying number for a document published online. It appears on a document or in a bibliographic citation as an alphanumeric string of characters that that acts as an active link to the original digital object (journal article, report, etc.).

DSpace is an open source repository application that allows you to capture, store, index, preserve and distribute your digital material including text, video, audio and data.

The eduGAIN interfederation service connects identity federations around the world, simplifying access to content, services and resources for the global research and education community.

Education Identifier (eduID) is a federated identity – a user identity that can be used in several different organizations that have agreed on how identities will be managed.

eduID.ng is the identity and access federation for the Nigerian research and education community comprising of higher education institutions, research institutes, schools and recognised stakeholder organisations who are users and/or producers of academic outputs. By establishing mutual operating rules and policy, participating organizations are able to utilize federated access among each other in a cloud-based… Read More »eduID.ng

Identity-as-a-Service: Identity-as-a-service, or IDaaS, is an application delivery model (like software-as-a-service, or SaaS) that allows users to connect to and use identity management services from the cloud.

An identity provider (IdP) is a federation partner that vouches for the identity of a user. The Identity Provider authenticates the user and provides an authentication token (that is, information that verifies the authenticity of the user) to the service provider. The identity provider either directly authenticates the user, such as by validating a username… Read More »IdP

Invenio is an open source framework for building large-scale digital repositories.