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1 The JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) Ann Apps Mimas, The University of Manchester, UK

2 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 2 Outline Purpose and use of IESR IESR domain model IESR Metadata Description IESR Collaborations and Future Contributing a Repository Description

3 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 3 What is IESR? Aim: assist other applications to discover and use appropriate materials JISC Information Environment –Collections of resources for researchers, learners, teachers in UK Middleware Registry of: –Collections of resources –Services that provide access Funded by JISC: Mimas, UKOLN

4 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 4 Service Registry Use Registry Client / Portal Collection / Service Register / ContributeDiscover Invoke

5 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 5 Metasearch Portal Scenario Physicist, Mary: literature survey about Higgs-Boson particle Portal discovers bibliographic collections about particle physics with Z39.50 –Vocabulary service needed Portal provides to Mary result of Z39.50 cross-search using ‘Higgs-Boson’ in ‘title’

6 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 6 Benefits of Dynamic Use Portal –Amalgamated set of resources IESR provides: –Discover: resource collections –Locate: access details –Invoke: interface connection details Portal builder doesn’t need to know about all resources Users discover collections unaware of

7 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 7 Subject Portal Scenario Judy: find resources about economics Social Science Portal: harvests IESR records into local registry Portal discovers collections of economic resources with Web interface –May include repositories, datasets, etc Portal provides to Judy list of web links

8 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 8 IESR Use by Application Developer Sarah is developing a Bibliographic and Alert service for biomedical articles Imports timely article metadata into local database from OAI-PMH feeds She finds repository in IESR that has biomedical literature and enables OAI- PMH harvest Uses IESR details of OAI-PMH service to plug into application

9 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 9 IESR Use by a Person Application developer looking for suitable Web Services to plug in Materials science lecturer: resources to recommend to students Aeronautical engineer: find RSS feeds for personal portal Funding Body: collection management tool

10 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 10 IESR Domain Model Collection Service Agent administrator owner hasService

11 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 11 IESR Entities Collection: –Aggregation of resources Service: –System that provides one or more functions Informational service: –Provides access to a collection Transactional service: Other functionality Agent: –Collection owner / Service administrator

12 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 12 IESR Application Profile Documents IESR Metadata –Set of properties for each entity –Semantics; Occurrence; Searchable –General / Specific Attributes –Extended to capture a description set Application Profile for human reading –More restrictive than XML schema

13 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 13 IESR Collection Metadata Based on Dublin Core Collections AP (DCCAP) (based on RSLP) –Simplification for electronic resources –Plus some specific IESR properties Single backbone subject scheme –Dewey Decimal Classification System –And other vocabularies Use cases needs ‘words’ for searching Collection’s own vocabulary

14 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 14

15 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 15 IESR Service Metadata Bespoke: properties to support discovery and registry application IESR agnostic about protocol –Single access method / protocol: –SRU, Z39.50, SOAP, OAI-PMH, Web/CGI Location URL Brief authentication details Connection details – interface – appropriate standard

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17 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 17 IESR Creative Commons Licence 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

18 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 18 IESR Services Web Search and Browse OAI-PMH for harvest: entity XML OpenURL: IESR identifier resolution Z39.50: composite XML Data Contribution – contact IESR: –Data Editor –Ingest by OAI-PMH harvest –(‘Put’ under development)

19 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 19 Metadata Schema Use OCKHAM Registry (US NSDL) –Outcomes of NSF projects Online Research Collections Australian (ORCA) aDORe Digital Object Repository (LANL) Standards development: –DC Collections AP: now conformant –NISO Metasearch Initiative CD Spec

20 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 20 IESR Future Funded until July 2009 More content –E.g. JISC Collections; England NHS Harvested content –E.g. OpenDOAR repositories; OCKHAM Persistence and quality of content Demonstrate and encourage viable use

21 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 21 Benefits of IESR Single place to find resources Single publication place Resources come ‘online’ as registered End users: –Portal is single place for discovery –Discover resources unaware of Repositories and other Collections: –Increased use

22 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 22 Contribution to IESR Not in OpenDOAR and would like to be in IESR? Contribute by: –http://iesr.ac.uk/be-included/ Please fill in template

23 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 23 Repository Contribution Template Repository details Description and disciplines Item types; maybe education level Access restrictions and rights OAI-PMH details Any other interfaces? –E.g. RSS, SRU, Z39.50

24 2007-11-28JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 24 IESR Details Thank You! Questions? http://iesr.ac.uk/ iesr@mimas.ac.uk ann.apps@manchester.ac.uk

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