Using IESR Ann Apps MIMAS, The University of Manchester, UK

IESR Contributors Workshop2 Outline IESR content description IESR services External description Using IESR Future directions

IESR Contributors Workshop3 IESR Content Descriptions of: –Collections of resources –Informational Services that provide access –Agents: Owners / Administrators –Transactional Services Supplied by resource providers Check by IESR content manager

IESR Contributors Workshop4 IESR Entities Collection ServiceAgent administers owns provides access

IESR Contributors Workshop5 IESR Identifiers Every entity has a URI Assigned on registration in IESR PURL-based Object Identifier (POI) Example: Internal use: local part of identifier only

IESR Contributors Workshop6 IESR Entity Description Described by metadata Based on open standards Metadata defined by Application Profile –Semantics –Occurrence –Searchable Data Supply as separate entities

IESR Contributors Workshop7 IESR Collection Metadata Based on RSLP Collection Description Simplification for electronic resources Consistent with: –DCMI Collection Description Application Profile –NISO MI Collection Description Links to other entities: –hasService: Service (IESR id) –Owner: Agent (IESR id)

IESR Contributors Workshop8 Vocabulary Encoding Schemes Defined in Application Profile Single backbone subject scheme –Dewey Decimal Classification System Other common vocabularies supported iesr:usesControlledList –IESR defined list (extensible) –terminology service; item level search

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IESR Contributors Workshop10 IESR Service Metadata More than RSLP CD ‘locator’ Bespoke IESR scheme Single access method: –Z39.50, SOAP, OAI-PMH, Web/CGI Location URL Interface property for some service types using appropriate schema Links to other entities: Agent, Collection

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IESR Contributors Workshop12 Other Service types SOAP: Locator: access URL; Interface: WSDL SRU: Interface: ZeeRex SRW: Interface: ZeeRex; WSDL OAI-PMH: Locator: BaseURL OpenURL: Locator: BaseURL Web CGI: Interface: arguments Web page: Locator: URL

IESR Contributors Workshop13 Agent Metadata Agent name Agent description Contact details, address, URL Links to other entities: –owns: Collection –administers: Service

IESR Contributors Workshop14 IESR Administrative Metadata Included with every entity Data suppliers can include: –Internal: creator/contributor, creation dates –External: source External: IESR includes: –creating organisation, publisher (IESR) –latest modification date –rights to reuse descriptions

IESR Contributors Workshop15 IESR Creative Commons Licence All IESR records licensed under a Creative Commons licence: –Non-commercial (freely available) –Share-alike (maintain same licence) –Attribution-required (attribute provenance) Suppliers agree to this licence

IESR Contributors Workshop16 IESR Services Details on IESR web site Z39.50 –Search via Bib-1 attributes –Results: text (SUTRS); XML OAI-PMH for harvesting OpenURL Link-To Resolver –Implements IESR identifier resolution Web Search and Browse Data supply Editor

IESR Contributors Workshop17 Future Services Web Services SOAP / SRW (planned) RSS UDDI (under investigation) –Prototype registry –Mapping IESR data to UDDI –Is there a requirement? Data ingest / harvest

IESR Contributors Workshop18 IESR XML Composite Collection record via Z39.50: –Collection –All services that provide access –All agents: Owners of collection Administrators of services Single entity record via OAI-PMH Simple Dublin Core for Interoperability

IESR Contributors Workshop19 Portal in JISC IE JISC defines a portal: A network service that brings together content from diverse distributed resources using technologies such as cross searching, harvesting, and alerting, and collates this into an amalgamated form for presentation to an end user.

IESR Contributors Workshop20 Using IESR Portal –amalgamated set of resources IESR provides: –Discovery of resource collections –Up-to-date details of access to collections Using IESR Portal builder can: –Add new services to portal –Provide metasearch

IESR Contributors Workshop21 Portal Metasearch Scenario Social Science portal discovers collections with e.g. Z39.50 services Provides cross-search to end-user using e.g. Z39.50 Portal builder doesn’t need to know about all resources Users discover collections unaware of

IESR Contributors Workshop22 Harvesting IESR OAI-PMH allows replication of IESR Portal harvests IESR records Caches locally for use by portal software, e.g.: –Local service registry –Knowledgebase after conversion to appropriate format –Conversion into local configuration file

IESR Contributors Workshop23 MIMAS Metadatabase Use Scenario MIMAS Metadatabase is a catalogue of resources provided by MIMAS Metadatabase will –Harvest changed IESR records nightly –Select MIMAS records –Update Metadatabase Staff have only one set of descriptions to maintain XML descriptions for other uses

IESR Contributors Workshop24 Use by Portal Builder Discover resource and access details by Web interface Handcraft resource into metasearch Possible future Digital Library build software will automate process SOAP services need manual intervention

IESR Contributors Workshop25 Other Uses Portal Links to Web Search –General resource discovery Reuse collection description –Initially created by resource supplier –Shared by multiple registries and applications RSS Aggregator (news; data alerts) –Personal digital library portal

IESR Contributors Workshop26 Metadata Schema Use OCKHAM (US): Outcomes of NSF projects CETIS / DEST: eLearning/Admin in Australia Standards development: –DCMI Collection Description –NISO Metasearch Initiative –DCMI Agents Working Group Stakeholder requirements: –Institution details –eLearning

IESR Contributors Workshop27 Wider Information Environment Scope of IESR –JISC, UK, international? –Data ownership and maintenance Distributed / federated model –Each node describes own resources –How to cross search? IESR collaboration with OCKHAM in US Sharing collection descriptions –Need common metadata schema

IESR Contributors Workshop28 IESR Future More and updated content New IESR services Demonstrating viable IESR use Persistence of content Maintenance of metadata schema International interest in Service Registries

IESR Contributors Workshop29 IESR Details Specifications: Application Profile: XML Schema: Web Search IESR: Z39.50 service: OAI-PMH service: IESR Helpline service: Ann Apps: