IESR: Enhancing Resource Discovery & Access with Collection Description Profile

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. Outline • Purpose of JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) • IESR content description • Using IESR • Future directions of collection and service registries DC2006: 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 DC2006: 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 DC2006: 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 DC2006: Collection Description Working Group

6. IESR Entities Collection provides access owns Service Agent administers DC2006: 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 DC2006: 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 DC2006: 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 DC2006: Collection Description Working Group

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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 DC2006: Collection Description Working Group

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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 DC2006: 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 DC2006: Collection Description Working Group

15. Service Registry Use Registry Discover Register / Contribute Client / Portal Collection / Service Invoke DC2006: 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 DC2006: 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 DC2006: 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 DC2006: 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 DC2006: 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 DC2006: 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 DC2006: 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 DC2006: Collection Description Working Group