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People & Resources Identification for Distributed Environments. Andrew Colleran, Quercus. 10 March 1999. eLib Authentication. 1. Overview. Partners and progress so far The Vision for PRIDE Implementing PRIDE. 10 March 1999. eLib Authentication. 2. Project partners. academic
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People & Resources Identification for Distributed Environments Andrew Colleran, Quercus 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 1
Overview • Partners and progress so far • The Vision for PRIDE • Implementing PRIDE 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 2
Project partners • academic • University of East Anglia • Macquarie University, Australia • Bibliothèque de l'Université René Descartes - Paris V • Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek, Magdeburg • CERLIM, Manchester Metropolitan University • LITC, South Bank University, London • UKOLN, University of Bath • University College Dublin 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 4
partners… • suppliers • Fretwell-Downing • IQSoft, Budapest • London and South Eastern Library Region (LASER) • Quercus Information Ltd • sponsors • British Library • BLCMP 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 5
Plan • Phase 1 requirements specification • June 1998 to February 1999 • Phase 2 development • February 1999 to January 2000 • Phase 3 demonstration and assessment • January 2000 to June 2000 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 6
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So far... • Requirements & Success Factors • State of the Art study • Legal & Commercial Issues • http://lirn.viscount.org.uk/pride/d221.pdf • Architecture & Interfaces • including Logical Component and Integration Designs 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 8
Goals of the project “a broker service to support the identification and delivery of information services over the Global Information Infrastructure” “provide support for authorisation, registration & cost recovery and integration with other interfaces to library services” 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 9
Concept 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 10
Perspectives on PRIDE • Library • Manage contractual & legal obligations • Follow policies and preferences of its parent body • Information Supplier • Protection of investment and rights in the product • Collection from a broker or user of appropriate fees in an efficient and cost beneficial manner • User • Unified and coherent view • Best usage conditions 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 11
Access & Clients Harvesters & Agents Proxy Services PRIDE Architecture Design Criteria Open and Standard Scalable General Integrated Heterogeneous Access Extensible X.500/DAP CORBA/IIOP LDAP Z39.50/SR WWW/CGI PRIDE Directory Universal Client Alerting Agent ILL Z39.50 Explain Curator Agent Z39.50 Proxy Access, Population & Proxies 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 19
PRIDE & other projects • LIDDAS - Australia • GAIA - authentication & payment • UNIVERSE
The PRIDE Directory • hybrid X.500 and LDAP directory • X.500 - scalability and management • LDAP - low cost participation • transparent access to LDAP servers • directory neutral SDK • DAP and LDAP • consistent LDAP-style API 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 20
PRIDE Schema • build on international standards • people - contact information • organisations - for resource grouping • collections and services • real-world objects • SDI profiles • authentication 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 21
Access Mechanisms and Clients • PRIDE Universal Client • Web (CGI) end-user and admin interface • registration, resource discovery, admin functions, SDI profiles, client call-out • CORBA Access Gateway • IDL interface • Z39.50 Access Gateway • LDAP/DAP 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 22
Harvesters and Agents • PRIDE agent toolkit (Perl) • directory populating agents • Z39.50 Explain harvester • RDF harvester • automatic reformatting agents • curator agent • alerting agent 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 23
Z39.50 Target Intelligent Z39.50 Gateway Z39.50 Target Z39.50 Target Z39.50 client Z39.50 Target Universe Server Universal Client Z39.50 Target Z39.50 client Z39.50 client Z39.50 Proxies PRIDE Directory • Experience gained in Z39.50 proxy development may lead to ILL proxy 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 24
Pride Summary • Implement a rich and flexible directory schema • service description • authorisation & access • user profiles • "a part of the whole" • integrate with existing solutions 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 27
The end 10 March 1999 eLib Authentication 28