exposing electronic resources: the information environment service registry amanda hill mimas
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Exposing electronic resources:
the Information Environment Service Registry
Amanda HillMIMAS
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JISC IE/Web 2.0 vision
• Connecting users to content in dynamic ways
• Services exposed on the network for re-use within other applications
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All very well, but…
• …how will these other services know which new services are available?
– Or how to connect to them?
– Or whom to contact if there is a problem with the connection?
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One solution…
• The Information Environment Service Registry is designed to:
– help these machine-to-machine services advertise themselves on the network
– Make it easier for application developers to find appropriate services for their users
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Expose
Owners of resources provide information about them (and how
to get to them) to IESR
IESR
Online resources
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Discover
Portal-builders discover existence of relevant services
automatically by regularly querying/harvesting
information from IESR
IESR
Online resources
Portals
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Use
Applications/portals interact with resources
they've discovered through IESR, using connection information provided by
IESR
IESR
Online resources
Portals
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Allowing people…
Portal
Online resources
… to discover and make use of new resources
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What's in the IESR?
IESR
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What's in the IESR?
Agents
ServicesCollections
Accessed by one or more
services
Administer one or more services
IESR
Own one or more collections
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An example
Web pages
RSS feeds
Z39.50Accessed by services
Administers services
IESR
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Metadata
• Collection descriptions: based on RSLP collection description schema
• Service descriptions: depend on type of service
• Agent descriptions: information about organisation
• All metadata decisions have been informed by and have fed into international developments in Dublin Core and NISO Metasearch Initiative.
• IESR metadata now being used in USA and Australia for related projects
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Demo portal (SPP)
http://dev.portal.ac.uk/docs/reports/iesr/SPPandIESR.html
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Demo portal (SPP)
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IESR content
• Currently: JISC service providers
• Soon: library OPACs, museum and archive catalogues, digital image collections…
• If you want your resource to be included: http://www.iesr.ac.uk/be-included/
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Benefits of inclusion for service providers
• Wider awareness of resources and associated services
• Resources can be re-used and re-presented in a variety of contexts and environments, many of which we haven't even thought of yet
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The future
• Moving away from building web sites and expecting users to come and find our data in a single place
• Providing our information and resources in ways that can be presented within other interfaces
• Taking our stuff to where the users are
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Contact details
0161 275 6055
http://iesr.ac.uk