Permission Impossible: Building a Better Permissions Management Interface at the University of Oxford
Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM–3:40 PM CEST add to calendar
Room 145
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Developers Day
Abstract
From the earliest days of our Alma migration, staff permission management was a significant challenge at the University of Oxford. The role profiles system is ill-equipped to handle a federated model comprising nearly 100 libraries with varying permission requirements, and manually adding roles one at a time was an unthinkable chore.
This presentation showcases the custom permissions management application we built to ease the burden: the process, the payoff, and our plans for what's next.
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Practical Applications
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Alma
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![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/50e87de28032bb4b8d29c61db820b22a.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "Ben Gable, University of Oxford")
Ben Gable, University of Oxford
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