IESR, A Registry of Collections and Services: Using the DCMI Collection Description Profile in Practice Ann Apps MIMAS, The University of Manchester, UK
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 2 Outline Purpose of JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) IESR content description Using IESR Future directions of collection and service registries
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 3 Why IESR? JISC Information Environment: –Collections of resources for researchers, learners, teachers in UK Single central registry – m2m access –Improve awareness and access Funded by JISC: –MIMAS, UKOLN –Registry developed and hosted by MIMAS
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 4 IESR Content Descriptions of: –Collections of resources –Made available via Informational Services –Agents: Owners / Administrators –Transactional Services Contributed by resource providers QA check by IESR content manager
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 5 Services and Collections Collection: –An aggregation of resources Service: –System that provides one or more functions –isAccessedVia Informational service: –Provides access to a collection Transactional service: –Other functionality
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 6 IESR Entities Collection ServiceAgent administers owns provides access
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 7 IESR Entity Description Entities identified with URI Described by metadata Metadata defined by Application Profile –Semantics –Occurrence –Searchable Application Profile for human reading –More restrictive than XML schema
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 8 IESR Collection Metadata Based on RSLP Collection Description Simplification for electronic resources Consistent with standards development: –DCMI Collection Description Application Profile –NISO MI Collection Description Specification
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 9 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) –Use by: Terminology service Portal item level search
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DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 11 IESR Service Metadata More than RSLP CD ‘locator’ A few IESR properties to support discovery and registry application IESR agnostic about protocol Single access method / protocol: –SRU, Z39.50, SOAP, OAI-PMH, Web/CGI, Web page Location URL Interface property for some protocols
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DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 13 IESR Administrative Metadata Included with every entity All IESR records licensed under a Creative Commons licence: –Non-commercial (freely available) –Share-alike (maintain same licence) –Attribution-required (attribute provenance) Contributors agree to this licence
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 14 IESR Services Z39.50 OAI-PMH for harvesting OpenURL Link-To Resolver –Implements IESR identifier resolution Web Search and Browse Data Editor for Contributors
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 15 Service Registry Use Registry Client / Portal Collection / Service Register / ContributeDiscover Invoke
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 16 Using IESR Portal –amalgamated set of resources IESR provides: –Discovery of resource collections –Up-to-date details of access to collections –Discovery of transactional services RSS OpenURL resolvers IESR will develop Use Cases
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 17 Portal Metasearch Scenario Social Scientist: find resources about family health Social Science portal discovers collections with e.g. Z39.50 services Portal 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
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 18 Metadata Schema Use OCKHAM (US): –NSDL / Outcomes of NSF projects CETIS / DEST: –eLearning/Admin in Australia aDORe Digital Object Repository (LANL) Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories: –Collection description service
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 19 Wider Information Environment Scope of IESR –JISC, UK, international? –Data ownership and maintenance Distributed / federated model –Each node describes own resources IESR collaboration with OCKHAM in US –Replication by OAI-PMH; search local
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 20 Sharing Descriptions Sharing collection descriptions –Created by resource provider –Reuse with possible local augmentation –Needs common / derivable metadata schema Standards: NISO Metasearch Initiative / DCMI Collection Description: provide common core IESR a practical example application Rights issues –Simplified with common CC licence
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 21 IESR Future More and updated content Maintenance of metadata schema Demonstrating viable IESR use Collaboration with Collection and Service Registry development Persistence of content
DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 22 IESR Details Thank You! Questions? Information: Application Profile: XML Schema: Web Search: Z39.50 service: OAI-PMH service: IESR Helpline service: