1. IESR, A Registry of Collections and Services: Using the DCMI Collection Description Profile in Practice Ann Apps MIMAS, The University of Manchester, UK

2. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

3. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

4. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

5. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

6. 2006-10-04DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 6 IESR Entities Collection ServiceAgent administers owns provides access

7. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

8. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

9. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

10. 2006-10-04DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 10

11. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

12. 2006-10-04DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 12

13. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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 http://creativecommons.org

14. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

15. 2006-10-04DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 15 Service Registry Use Registry Client / Portal Collection / Service Register / ContributeDiscover Invoke

16. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

17. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

18. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

19. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

20. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

21. 2006-10-04DC2006: 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

22. 2006-10-04DC2006: Collection Description Working Group 22 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