SRAM SURF Research Access Management

Usage of SRAM

SRAM (sram.surf.nl) can be used in different ways:

1. Create: UT researchers can ask for research collaborations in SRAM(*). This requester is a UT employee and becomes "admin" of the Collaboration. The admin can manage the research collaboration. See: https://servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/display/WIKI/Invite+admins+and+members+to+a+collaboration and https://servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/display/WIKI/Manage+groups+of+collaboration+members.
2. Invite: The UT Researcher who created the collaboration (option 1) is able to invite other Researchers to join the collaboration. Researchers are invited to join the collaboration. The collaboration is connected to a research service: see https://servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/display/WIKI/Login+with+an+invite.
3. Join: Researchers (who are invited and accept this invitation, option 2) can login to research services using their institutional account. See https://servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/display/WIKI/Start%3A+Researchers.
4. Collaborate: The secured collaboration page shows its members and gives access to the research services.
5. Services for collaborations: make services accessible for collaborations. LISA and UT research groups can create such services. At this moment LISA ICT will do this for research groups. For more information to create your own services for collaborations ask your ICT Accountmanager.

(*) LISA accepts this request and creates the research collaboration  in SRAM. Then LISA will add "admin" account as first member of this research collaboration. He/she can add other researchers to this research collabortion.

Information about SRAM: 

• when invited to become a member of a research collaboration in SURF Research Access Management (SRAM): https://servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/display/WIKI/Collaboration+members
• when you are admin of a collaboration: https://servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/display/WIKI/Collaboration+admins
• General information about SRAM can be found at: https://sram.surf.nl/ and https://servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/display/WIKI/SURF+Research+Access+Management

Users (invited members of a collaboration) can login with their institutional account onto services that use SRAM, to do collaborative research and join collaborations.

There are tree possibilities:

1. institutions already connected to SRAM can join the collaboration with their own account/password + MFA;
2. International institutions can connect using eduGAIN and login with their own account/password + MFA. Check this edugain webpage to see if the international institutions can connect using edugain;
3. Without connecting an IdP to SRAM, researchers can still use SRAM with a guest IdP, for example with eduID.nl. For more information see: https://servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/display/WIKI/Start%3A+Institutions. 

Institutions and other service providers can make their services easily and securely available for researchers from their own and other institutions. Refer to how to connect a service to SRAM.

UT is using SRAM for the following services:

• UniShare is a concatination of two services (1) SRAM and (2) a Nextcloud Server (Nextcloud technology based service) to store, share and collaborate with research data. The data is stored at the UT datacenters. For simplicity we call it Unishare.