1. Disseminating Service Registry Records Ann Apps MIMAS, The University of Manchester, UK

2. 2006-06-15ELPUB20062 Outline Purpose of JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) IESR content description IESR services Using IESR The future

3. 2006-06-15ELPUB20063 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, University of Liverpool –Registry developed and hosted by MIMAS

4. 2006-06-15ELPUB20064 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 IESR will encourage maintenance

5. 2006-06-15ELPUB20065 IESR Entities Collection ServiceAgent administers owns provides access

6. 2006-06-15ELPUB20066 IESR Entity Description Entities identified with URI Described by metadata Metadata defined by Application Profile –Semantics –Occurrence –Searchable AP for human reading –More restrictive than XML schema

7. 2006-06-15ELPUB20067 IESR Collection Metadata Based on RSLP Collection Description Simplification for electronic resources Consistent with: –DCMI Collection Description Application Profile –NISO MI Collection Description Specification Vocabularies for property values –Dewey subject backbone

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9. 2006-06-15ELPUB20069 IESR Service Metadata A few IESR properties to support discovery and registry application Single access method: –SRU, Z39.50, SOAP, OAI-PMH, Web/CGI Location URL Interface property for some service types using appropriate schema

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11. 2006-06-15ELPUB200611 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

12. 2006-06-15ELPUB200612 IESR Agent and Administrative Metadata Agent: contact details Administrative: –Included with every entity IESR includes: –creating organisation, publisher: IESR –latest modification date –rights to reuse descriptions: Creative Commons

13. 2006-06-15ELPUB200613 IESR Services Z39.50: composite XML OAI-PMH for harvesting: entity XML OpenURL Link-To Resolver –Implements IESR identifier resolution Future: SRU; SOAP/SRW; RSS; UDDI Web Search and Browse Data Editor for Contributors

14. 2006-06-15ELPUB200614 IESR Users DL Portal; Metasearch Application –amalgamated set of resources IESR provides: –Discovery of resource collections –Up-to-date details of access to collections –Discovery of transactional services RSS: personal DL portal OpenURL resolvers

15. 2006-06-15ELPUB200615 Portal Metasearch Scenario Researcher: find family health datasets Social Science portal discovers collections with e.g. Z39.50 services Portal provides cross-search to user Portal builder doesn’t need to know about all resources Users discover collections unaware of Alternative: Static use by Portal builder

16. 2006-06-15ELPUB200616 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 Scenario: portal for Open Access material in Institutional Repositories

17. 2006-06-15ELPUB200617 Distributed Service Registries Scope of IESR –JISC, UK, international? –Scalability and Data ownership issues Distributed / federated model –Each node describes own resources How to cross search? –Metasearch; UDDI; OAI-PMH harvest IESR collaboration with OCKHAM in US –Replication by OAI-PMH; search local

18. 2006-06-15ELPUB200618 Sharing Descriptions Sharing collection descriptions –Created by resource provider –Need common / derivable metadata schema –NISO Metasearch Initiative OAI-PMH to share descriptions OAI-PMH includes provenance and rights containers Rights issues: common CC Licence?

19. 2006-06-15ELPUB200619 IESR Future More and updated content New IESR services Maintenance of metadata schema Demonstrating viable IESR use Collaboration with Service Registry development, UK and international Persistence of content

20. 2006-06-15ELPUB200620 IESR Details Thank You! Questions? Information: http://iesr.ac.uk/ Application Profile: http://iesr.ac.uk/profile/ XML Schema: http://iesr.ac.uk/schemas/iesr.xsd Web Search: http://iesr.ac.uk/registry/ Z39.50 service: http://iesr.ac.uk/use/z3950/ OAI-PMH service: http://iesr.ac.uk/use/oaipmh/ IESR Helpline service: iesr@mimas.ac.uk ann.apps@manchester.ac.uk