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The JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR)

The JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR). Ann Apps Mimas, The University of Manchester, UK. Outline. Purpose and use of IESR IESR domain model IESR Metadata Description IESR Collaborations and Future Contributing a Repository Description. What is IESR?.

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The JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR)

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

  2. Outline • Purpose and use of IESR • IESR domain model • IESR Metadata Description • IESR Collaborations and Future • Contributing a Repository Description JISC 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 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting

  4. Service Registry Use Registry Discover Register / Contribute Client / Portal Collection / Service Invoke JISC 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’ JISC 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 JISC 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 JISC 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 JISC 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 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting

  10. IESR Domain Model Collection hasService owner Agent Service administrator JISC 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 JISC 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 JISC 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 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting

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  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 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting

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  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 JISC 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) JISC 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 JISC 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 JISC 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 JISC 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 JISC 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 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting

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

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