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Shared Infrastructure Services: Interoperability session
Rosemary RussellUKOLNUniversity of Bath
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25 October 2006JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting, London
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Contents• Which shared infrastructure services do repositories need to interoperate with?• Scenario: search; add data to repository• Contributing to IESR• Service maturity
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Which SIS do repositories need to interoperate with?
• Identifier services and open linking?• Representation Information Registries?• Format Registries?• Managing digital resources/licencing?• Service Registries & CD?• Metadata Schema Registries?• Institutional Profiling Services?• Terminology Services?• Name Authority?
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Scenario: search; add data to repository
Shared infrastructure service
Service registry
Terminology services
User activity
Locate suitable collections
Support better cross search
Preservation metadata Persistent identifiers
OpenURL resolvers
Appropriate retrieval route
Preservation metadata Representation info registry
Metadata schema registry Application profiles
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Interaction with SIS
Repository
IEMSRIESR
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Contributing to eg IESR[Information Environment Service Registry]• scope includes repositories, OPACs, non-JISC resources • contribute - information about collections of resources, technical details on how to access, contact details for providers • uses RSLP Collection Description Metadata Schema • chicken/egg - IESR needs a critical mass of data to demonstrate a fully functional service• benefits for repositories – opens up resources to wider use (unknown resources discovered)
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Service maturity• Some shared infrastructure services are more mature than others… eg IESR one of most mature; IEMSR looking for projects to work with• UKOLN review uses JISC Development and Service Maturity Scale
• others don’t yet exist…eg name authority –JISC Circular 04/06 includes call for pilot
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