What the heck is a Shibboleth Integration Project?

Question:
What the heck is a Shibboleth Integration Project?

Perhaps an answer:
"Shibboleth Overview:
The Shibboleth system provides a standards-based link between existing campus authentication systems and resource providers of all kinds. For example, when a student requests access to a protected video clip, her home organization (origin site) requests her to authenticate (if she has not done so already) and then passes on the information that she is enrolled in Biology 562 to the site housing the video. The provider (target site) uses the fact that she is enrolled in this course to determine her eligibility to access the video."

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