ACCESS introduces a new Resource Provider Integration Dashboard available from the ACCESS Resource Providers home page. The dashboard aims to lower the resource integration barrier by providing a more intuitive, flexible, and modular resource integration process.

The new process guides resource provider leadership through the initial step of registering their organization and resource, and enrolling in an integration roadmap tailored to their resource type and integration goals. Once enrolled, they can select from a menu of roadmap-related integration badges, each representing functionality that will be useful to researcher, and that the resource provider provides through ACCESS. Resource provider leadership can enroll and un-enroll badges at any point in their resource lifecycle.

The new process also details for resource provider implementing staff the tasks and related documentation needed to support badges selected by leadership. Once implementation tasks are marked as completed, badges can be submitted for verification, and then listed in user-facing resource discovery interfaces. Listed badges include a link for accessing badge related features.

The Integration Dashboard is available in read-only mode to everyone in the ACCESS community so that potential resource providers can explore the integration process.

For permissions to modify resource integration information, existing resource provider leadership should open an Internal ACCESS and Resource Provider  Request (ticket) that includes: a) which resource provider leadership need permissions to enroll/un-enroll resources in roadmaps and badges, b) which resource provider implementation staff need permission to mark tasks as completed and submit badges for verification, and c) for each leadership and staff person which resource group their permissions apply to. Resource groups are listed at https://allocations.access-ci.org/resources. For example: grant Jane Dough leadership access to Neocortex and Bridges2, John Doe should have implementor access to Bridges2.

For a brief resource provider introduction to the new streamlined integration process view these slides.