1. © 2005 knowledge integration ltd www.k-int.com PNDS Content Inclusion - Technical Aspects Ian Ibbotson Knowledge Integration ltd

2. © 2005 knowledge integration ltd www.k-int.com PNS Software : What is it? Location Agnostic –Gateway doesn't know remote from local Remote Search -Z39.50/SRW/Other –Volatile Records, Control over QOS, presentation, content (Privacy), Volatile Collections, Speed/Hardware/security Aggregate Content (OAI, Web Harvest...) –Stable collections, Indexing Consistency & availability, speed.

3. © 2005 knowledge integration ltd www.k-int.com Initial Levels of Integration Preferred choice for PN : OAI –Content not volatile –Speed/Availability vs Hardware tradeoff –Collections not Volatile (Just expanding) –Ease of implementation / Integration –Provider Hardware Requirements –Indexing Consistency (Spatial etc)

4. © 2005 knowledge integration ltd www.k-int.com How does it work? What is OAI (In terms of PN-Discovery) PN- DS Data Provider Describe Yourself (Schemas, etc) Info Whats new since I last checked? Here are the first 10, continue by asking for X Next records from X please Here are the final records for today

5. © 2005 knowledge integration ltd www.k-int.com PNS-DS Network PNS - Repository OAI - Cultural OAI - CI OAI - Reference OAI - Other Search-Only - Bib Search Only - CI e-Govt – Web Crawl eLearning - search OAI OAIOAI OAIOAI SQI Z3950Z3950 PNS - Discovery Z3950 Local Robot httphttp Submit

6. © 2005 knowledge integration ltd www.k-int.com Providing OAI Repository for your project Write From Scratch –http://www.openarchives.org/ –Toolkits http://www.openarchives.org/tools/tools.html –OCLC (java) : http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/harvester2.htm –Uni. Illinois (Java (jsp),.Net(asp), VB, etc, etc.) http://uilib-oai.sourceforge.net/ –Static Gateway http://srepod.sourceforge.net/

7. © 2005 knowledge integration ltd www.k-int.com Next Steps Service Registry –Profiling –Gather and Prepare Data –Populate Registry –Configure PN-DS –Interoperability Testing / Confirmation –Operation