A centre of expertise in digital information management UKOLN is supported by: If you don’t remember anything else, remember these… Peter Cliff, Research Officer, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK SUETr Interoperability Workshop, The LSE Library, December 2008 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

A centre of expertise in digital information management Over to you… Write on a piece of paper the one thing you learnt today that you do not want to forget

A centre of expertise in digital information management Some things Interoperability is about improving your chances of reducing costs/barriers Interoperability takes effort RSS is on its way out, use Atom Web architecture

A centre of expertise in digital information management More things… Addressable resources How else will you describe an aggregation? Cool URIs Announce your interfaces SWORD/OAI-PMH base URLs Use standards But consider the motivations behind them & are they adopted?

A centre of expertise in digital information management More things Check if anyone is doing what you want to do and steal from/help them Good APIs project DRIVER report Ensure you are meeting user needs Don’t get hung up on “doing it the Web 2.0” || “Semantic Web” way – just do something Remember the simple things: robots.txt, open HTTP access to resources, etc. Compromise

A centre of expertise in digital information management Summary Demonstrated ways of getting content in Demonstrated ways of getting content out and facilitating novel uses of that content Seen some ways to describe that content Not just technologies, but it’s a start

A centre of expertise in digital information management Questions & discussion