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AGRIS Multi-Host Search System: Using Dublin Core to homogenise distributed databases
AGRIS Multi-Host Search System: Using Dublin Core to homogenise distributed databases
Frehiwot Fisseha
FAO/WAICENT
AGRIS/CARIS and Documentation Unit
Overview
* Background - AGRIS * Motivation for AGRIS -MHS * Vision * Challenges * Way forward * Components and arichtecture of the MHS
Background- AGRIS
AGRIS is the international information system for the agricultural science and technology.
AGRIS is a bibliographic database created by FAO in 1974 to facilitate information exchange and to identify world literature dealing with all aspects of agriculture
AGRIS is a co-operative system. 199 national, international and intergovernmental centres participate and submit about 14.000 records per month
The system collects bibliographic references (to date, about 3 million) to either conventional (journal articles, books) or non-conventional materials (sometimes called "grey literature" e.g. theses, reports, etc.), not available through ordinary commercial channels.
Http://www.fao.org/agris
Motivation for the AGRIS MHS
We have wide range of bibliographic information that should be included into the AGRIS database
Large components of the AGRIS database are existing national bibliographic databases like AGRICOLA and ELFIS.
• Some of the databases are searchable on the internet and need not be copied or reprocessed by FAO's AGRIS processing group.
Vision
AGRIS as a focal point of access for agricultural
information (bibliographic as well as full text) on distributed databases and information systems
uniform presentation of meta information
easily accessible information content
Challenges
Distributed databases
Databases are heterogeneous• different data structure
• different metadata information
Way Forward
Develop a search engine to make a parallel search on distributed databases (Outsource development-ZADI)
• develop XML wrapper for each co-operating database
Develop common meta elements to homogenise search result set (In-house)
Way forward (Contd.)Related activities
Develop and propose DC based meta data description for agricultural resources for the purpose of resource discovery and interoperability
– organise working group to work on proposing DC based standards (agricultural Dublin Core elements and qualifiers)
– draft specification for a DC based standard for describing document-like agricultural resources
– crosswalk for the existing databases (AGRIS, CARIS, FAO online Catalogue)
– posted on Agstandard mailing list for discussion and feed back
– work in progress to encode the standard with an XML framework (DTD, RDF)
ClientClient
AGRIS-ServerAGRIS-Server
DistributedDatabases
DistributedDatabases
Request Search Result
Search ResultsRequests
The AGRIS MHS System
Wrapper Manager
Wrapper Manager
TransactionManager
TransactionManager
DistributedDatabases
DistributedDatabases
ClientClient
static pages dynamic pages
AGRIS-WWW-Server
Components of the AGRIS MHS
AGRIS-ServerAGRIS-Server ClientClient
1. Login (AGRIS Homepage) andrequest for the search form (HTTP)
2. Transmission of a static search form (HTML) including intelligent checks (Java-Script)
TransactionManager
TransactionManager
AGRIS-WWW-Server
static pages dynamic pages
AGRIS-ServerAGRIS-Server ClientClient
3. Input of search criteria includingthe searchable databasesand request sending (http)
AGRIS-WWW-Server
static pages dynamic pages
TransactionManager
TransactionManager
4. Request transmission to dynamically generate thesearch result page
AGRIS-ServerAGRIS-Server
TransactionManager
TransactionManager
WrapperManager
WrapperManager
5. Kernel activation and request transmissionincluding request syntax and search criteria (databases, fields, search pattern)
DistributedDatabases
DistributedDatabases
6. Distributed requests on distributed databases through IP (XML) 7. Search result
delivery (XML)
8. Compilation of one homogenous result set and delivery
Using AG-DC
AGRIS-ServerAGRIS-Server
TransactionManager
TransactionManager
ClientClient
9. Result set conversion (XML->HTML) and transmission
10. Request answering (HTML)
AGRIS-WWW-Server
static pages dynamic pages
Search Result in AG-DC format
WrapperManager
WrapperManager
TransactionManager
TransactionManager
DistributedDatabases
DistributedDatabases
ClientClientAGRIS-ServerAGRIS-Server
AGRIS-WWW-Server
static pages dynamic pages
AGRIS-KernelAGRIS-Kernel
XML Query GeneratorXML Query Generator XML Result Set Composer
XML Result Set Composer
8. Compilation and Transmission of onehomogen result set
TransactionManager
TransactionManager
DistributedDatabases
DistributedDatabases
Knowledge Base(Database - URL)
Knowledge Base(Database - URL)
6. Translation of the http requestinto a standardised XML query and delivery to the databases
7. Search result delivery (XML)
5. Kernel activation and request transmissionincluding request syntax and search criteria (databases, fields, search pattern)
ClientClient
AGRIS-ServerAGRIS-Server
DistributedDatabases
DistributedDatabases
Request Search Result
Search ResultRequest
AGRIS-ServerAGRIS-Server
XML-Wrapper
DistributedDatabases
DistributedDatabases
Database-Kernel
Data, Indexes
Knowledge BaseAGRIS-XML
<-> local Schemes
6.1. Translation of the XML-Request into the database specific syntax, opening of a retrieval session and activation of the database kernel
6.2. Database search
6. Translation of the http requestinto a standardised XML query and delivery to the databases
7. Search result delivery (XML)
With AG-DC elements
AGRIS-ServerAGRIS-Server
DistributedDatabases
DistributedDatabases
6.3. Search result in database specific syntax
6.4. Conversion into XML
6. Translation of the http requestinto a standardised XML query and delivery to the databases
7. Search result delivery (XML)
XML-Wrapper
Database-Kernel
Data, Indexes
Knowledge BaseAGRIS-XML
<-> local Schemes
ClientClient
AGRIS-ServerAGRIS-Server
DistributedDatabases
DistributedDatabases
Request Search Result
Search ResultRequest
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