1. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description1 People & Resources Identification for Distributed Environments P.R.I.D.E. Andrew Colleran, Quercus

2. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description2 Introduction to the PRIDE project What has PRIDE to do with collections The PRIDE schema The RDF Harvester The Curator Other aspects of PRIDE

3. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description3 Introduction the objectives - –a demonstrator for directory enabled applications middleware for infrastructure - standards the PRIDE Universal Client (PUC) –service to service authentication –profiles for groups of users –collection descriptions the partners http://lirn.viscount.org.uk/pride/ an EU Libraries Programme project

4. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description4 the plan

5. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description5 What PRIDE has to do with Collections the directory holds descriptions of them the RDF harvester gathers collection descriptions the curator updates clump information

6. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description6 The PRIDE schema collection descriptions

7. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description7

8. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description8 The RDF Harvester “The RDF Harvester will provide an indirect way for end-users to provide information to the PRIDE demonstrator and aligns the PRIDE project closely with the current metadata work of the W3C. It will be based on current development of the Harvest suite of resource discovery tools.” PRIDE Architecture & Interfaces http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/pride/overview.html

9. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description9 PRIDE Directory PRIDE RDF Harvester Web read configuration data: what on the web, where in directory list of URIs to visit gather Populate PRIDE directory LDIF file

10. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description10 Dublin core elements dc:type person collection dc:title, dc:subject, dc:description

11. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description11 vCard elements fn sn email

12. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description12 The Curator The curator organises related data in “clumps” to simplify their search and retrieval. The clumps may be organised, for example, by subjects, which describe collections.

13. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description13 Other aspects of PRIDE - directory users groups alert profiles access profiles public library people

14. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description14 PRIDE and the DNER Distributed directory –standards based infrastructure Integrated services –service to service authentication –profiles for groups of users –collection descriptions

15. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description15 Other PRIDE agents Alerting Z39.50 proxy Z39.50 search of directory Z39.50 Explain Harvester ILL Synchronisation Agent

16. 7 March 2000eLib Collection Description16 Standards LDAP Z39.50 Metadata