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From Provider to Portal - a chain of interoperability Andy Powell UKOLN, University of Bath NetLab and Friends April 2002 UKOLN is funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher and Further Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based.

NetLab and Friends - April Contents current digital library technical standards way those standards are being combined to support initiatives such as the UK JISC Information Environment (DNER) Web services trends in portal developments impact on development of digital library services not very in depth

NetLab and Friends - April Simple scenario consider a lecturer searching for materials for a course module covering the development of business in China the aim is to construct a hybrid reading list that can be given to students to support their coursework he or she searches for business china using: the RDN, to discover Internet resources ZETOC, to discover recent journal articles

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8 Issues different user interfaces look-and-feel subject classification, metadata usage everything is HTML – human-oriented difficult to merge results, e.g. combine into reading lists difficult to build a reading list to pass on to students difficult to move from discovering journal article to having copy in hand (or on desktop) users need to manually join services together

NetLab and Friends - April UK DNER context collections and counting… (Hazel Woodward, e-ICOLC, Helsinki, Nov 2001) Books: 10,000 + Journals: 5,000 + Images:250,000 + Discovery tools:50 + –A & I databases, COPAC, RDN, … National mapping data & satellite imagery plus institutional content (e-prints, library content, learning resources, etc.) plus content made available thru projects – 5/99, FAIR, X4L, … plus …

NetLab and Friends - April The problem(s)… portal problem how to provide seamless discovery across multiple content providers appropriate-copy problem how to provide access to the most appropriate copy of a resource (given access rights, preferences, cost, speed of delivery, etc.)

NetLab and Friends - April The solution… an information environment framework of machine-oriented services allowing the end-user to discover, access, use, publish resources across a range of content providers move away from lots of stand-alone Web sites......towards more coherent whole remove need for use to interact with multiple content providers

NetLab and Friends - April JISC Information Env. discover finding stuff across multiple content providers access streamlining access to appropriate copy content providers expose metadata about their content for searching harvesting alerting develop services that bring stuff together portals (subject portals, media-specific portals, geospatial portals, institutional portals, VLEs, …)

NetLab and Friends - April Discovery technologies that allow providers to disclose metadata to portals searching - Z39.50 (Bath Profile) harvesting - OAI-PMH alerting - RDF Site Summary (RSS) fusion services may sit between provider and portal broker (searching) aggregator (harvesting and alerting)

NetLab and Friends - April Access in the case of books, journals, journal articles, end- user wants access to the most appropriate copy need to join up discovery services with access/delivery services (local library OPAC, ingentaJournals, Amazon, etc.) need localised view of available services discovery service uses the OpenURL to pass metadata about the resource to an OpenURL resolver the OpenURL resolver provides pointers to the most appropriate copy of the resource, given: user and inst preferences, cost, access rights, location, etc.

NetLab and Friends - April Shared services collection/service description service information about collections (content) and services (protocol) that make that content available authentication and authorisation resolver services user preferences and institutional profiles terminology services metadata registries...

NetLab and Friends - April JISC Information Env. Broker/Aggregator Portal Content providers End-user Portal Broker/Aggregator Authentication Authorisation Collectn Desc Service Desc Resolver Instn Profile Shared services Provision layer Fusion layer Presentation layer

NetLab and Friends - April Summary Z39.50 (Bath Profile), OAI, RSS are key discovery technologies... … and by implication, XML and simple/unqualified Dublin Core portals provide discovery services across multiple content providers… access to resources via OpenURL and resolvers where appropriate Z39.50 and OAI not mutually exclusive general need for all services to know what other services are available to them

NetLab and Friends - April Common sense Z, OAI and RSS based on metadata fusion - merging metadata records from multiple content providers need shared understanding and metadata practice across DNER need to agree cataloguing guidelines and terminology 4 key areas subject classification - what is this resource about? audience level - who is this resource aimed at? resource type - what kind of resource is this? certification - who has created this resource?

NetLab and Friends - April Web Services - IBM Web Services are self-contained, self- describing, modular applications that can be published, located and invoked across the Web. IBM Web Services architecture overview

NetLab and Friends - April Web Services - Microsoft A Web service is programmable application logic, accessible using standard Internet protocols. A Platform for Web Services

NetLab and Friends - April Web Services - principles small units of functionality informational transactional b2b (m2m) key technologies XML, HTTP, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI supporting organisations World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Services Activity & 3 working groups Web Services Interoperability Working Group (WS-I)

NetLab and Friends - April IBM Web services model service registry service provider service requestor Find Publish Bind WSDL UDDI WSDL SOAP WSDL UDDI

NetLab and Friends - April WSDL, UDDI and SOAP Web Service Description Language XML descriptions of Web services note: limited scope for describing content of collections Universal Discovery, Description and Integration technology for building distributed registry of Web services Simple Object Access Protocol remote procedure calls based on XML and HTTP

NetLab and Friends - April JISC IE - Web services service registry service provider service requestor Find Publish Bind Collection and Service description service JISC Inf. Env. Service registry Content providers, aggregators, brokers, shared services Portals, aggregators, brokers

NetLab and Friends - April Broker/Aggregator Portal Content providers End-user Portal Broker/Aggregator Authentication Authorisation Resolver JISC Information Env. Instn Profile Shared services Provision layer Fusion layer Presentation layer Service provider Service requestor Service provider Service requestor Service registry

NetLab and Friends - April P3P Portal Proliferation Problem if intention of portals is to reduce the need to interact with multiple Web sites proliferation may mean that portals are part of the problem not part of the solution typical campus may have 3 portals library (external focus) admin/computing (MIS, finance, room booking,... ) virtual learning environment (l&t) plus external subject, media and commercial portals,...

NetLab and Friends - April From portals to portlets Portlets provide the building blocks for portals re-usable, display-oriented functional chunks Apache Jetspeed, IBM WebSphere Portal Server, Oracle Application Server Portal,... …but ongoing standardisation currently portlet approach being adopted by the RDN Subject Portal Project portlets underpinned by Web services - cross- search, display news feed,... portlets can be embedded into institutional portals portlets will need registering in service registry

NetLab and Friends - April Portlet Broker/Aggregator Portal Content providers End-user Portal Broker/Aggregator Authentication Authorisation Service Registry Resolver 4 layer model? Instn Profile Shared services Provision layer Fusion layer Portal layer Portlet Portlet layer Portlet

NetLab and Friends - April Conclusions current - digital library technologies fairly well understood fairly slow moving Z39.50, OAI, OpenURL,... future - Web service technologies largely driven by commercial portal sector and b2b requirements fast moving, new set of acronyms and terms UDDI, WSDL, SOAP, portlet,... semantic Web and RDF how do these fit in?

NetLab and Friends - April Impact increased use of XML and SOAP as carrier technologies OAI - experimental implementation using SOAP ZiNG - SRW (Search/Retrieve Web service) (Z39.50 using SOAP) use of WSDL to describe services probably supplemented by other standards to describe content of collections use of portlet technologies demise of monolithic portal applications small, reusable functional building blocks sharing of portlets between portals

NetLab and Friends - April Questions…