Membership to the EUCAIM group
This quick guide will take you through the different steps involved in registering with the Life Sciences AAI (LS-AAI) authentication service developed by the EOSC Life project.
The creation of a LS-AAI account is a prerequisite to access EUCAIM restricted resources, but it does not grant access to them. In order to access the EUCAIM restricted resources, the user has to request membership to the EUCAIM Group. This process is manually verified by the security team of the platform, checking that the account requests are not fake and requesting any additional information if needed. Requests will be registered in the LS-AAI platform.
It is important to outline that users in the EUCAIM Group will only have access to the aggregated data. They will not be able to access actual data. This process will be granted through the negotiator service.
The request of membership goes through the following steps:
- Access the “My profile” area of the Dashboard. It will require the authentication through the LS-AAI, and it will present the enrollment form (figure 1). The enrollment form is prefilled with the user’s email and requests the user to provide the institution. Additionally, the user has to read and accept the privacy policy and the usage policy for the platform.
- A membership to the EUCAIM group will have been created (figure 2). This should be manually verified and accepted or rejected (figure 3) by the administrator of the EUCAIM group (NOTE: these screenshots are not available for the user, just for the group administrator).
- Once this request has been approved, the user will be able to access the restricted area through the “My profile” button of the Dashboard. When the user accesses, the system requests to confirm the acceptance of the privacy policy (figure 4). This can be done for a single access or for six months.
- Then, access to the restricted services will be granted (figure 5).
Figure 1: Return to the dashboard “My profile” area, where the dashboard will show the enrollment page to the EUCAIM Group, pre-filled in with the email.
Figure 2: Administrative dashboard
Figure 3: Administrative dashboard. Request approval.
Figure 4: Return to the Dashboard “My profile” area. First time requires confirming the acceptance of the Privacy Policy.
Figure 5: Dashboard fully authenticated.
