The IESR and library systems Project Silkworm at Talis

1
The IESR and library systemsProject Silkworm at
Talis

• JISC IESR Workshop
• 12 January 2005
• Katie Anstock

2

• Overview
• Update on relevant initiatives
• VIEWS
• NISO Metasearch Initative
• How we want to use the IESR

3
VIEWS Vendor Initiative for Enabling Web
Services www.views-consortia.org/
4
(No Transcript)
5

• Established Summer 2004
• To investigate and evaluate the application of
  Web Services in the library domain
• Work with other industry bodies (e.g. IMS) to
  establish integration with VLEs, portals etc
• 2 sub-committees
• Authentication and authorization
• Metasearch

6

• Established Summer 2004
• To investigate and evaluate the application of
  Web Services in the library domain
• Work with other industry bodies (e.g. IMS) and
  companies allied to libraries to establish
  integration with VLEs, portals, SRS,
• 2 sub-committees
• Authentication and authorization
• Metasearch

7

• More information
• www.views-consortia.org/
• Join the debate
• Listserv www.clipper.vtls.com/mailman/listinfo/v
  iews-public
• Forum - www.talis.com/views/
• Contact
• Carl Grant at VTLS grantc_at_vtls.com
• Authentication katie.anstock_at_talis.com
• Metasearch - candy.zemon_at_gisinfosystems.com

8
NISO Metasearch Initiative 3 task groups TG1
Access management (Committee BA) TG2 Collection
description (Committee BB) TG3 Search and
retrieval (Committee BC)
9
TG1 Access management
10

• Gathered requirements for authentication and
  access needs within the metasearch environment
• Created an inventory of existing processes now in
  place
• Developed a series of formal use cases describing
  the needs
• Analyzed use cases

• Next steps
• Weighing decisions

11
TG3 Search and retrieve
12
TG3 Search and retrieve

• Areas of activity
• Citation level data elements
• Current practices

13

• Survey 24 respondents
• 83 aware of metasearch activity on their
  database(s)
• 54 do not have a policy regarding metasearch
• Of those who do, 30 do not allow metasearching
  of their databases
• 54 (13 of 24) believe that allowing
  metasearching of their offerings is very
  important to their customers
• 86 (18 of 21) plan changes or enhancements to
  their current services
• Of those who allow metasearching of their
  offerings, 70 think standards and guidelines in
  metasearching would be very important to their
  business
• - NISO Newsline December 2004 http//www.niso.org/
  news/newsline/NISONewsline-Dec2004.htmlStory5

14

• More information
• http//www.lib.ncsu.edu/niso-mi/index.php/Main_Pag
  e
• Contact
• TG1 Mike Teets teetsm_at_oclc.org
• TG3 Sara Randall sara.randall_at_endinfosys.com
• Matt Goldner goldnerm_at_oclc.org

15
Talis and the IESR Project Silkworm
16
Project Silkworm
Silkworm is a pattern of working, a set of values
and principles that people, products and services
operate by in order to realise the shared value
of community.
17
Service descriptions provide the configuration
data

• Collection descriptions enable
• Discovery of service descriptions
• Discovery of collections themselves

18
Collection descriptions
Service descriptions
19
Service descriptions
20
Service descriptions
Roles targets, clients, portals and portlets
Everyone uses the same resources, everyone needs
the same data
Technical metadata where do I get it from?
Is it that straight forward? - The Z39.50
learning curve
Often people think that to use Z you just stick
in connection details and fire off searches but
it is not always that simple. - John Gilby,
InforM25
21
Configuring targets
www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/zdir/
Library catalogues and free academic resources
UKOLN
www.indexdata.dk/targettest/a.php Library
catalogues
Index Data
National Library of Australia
www.nla.gov.au/apps/libraries?actionListTargets L
ibrary catalogues
www.iesr.ac.uk/ quality assured resources within
the JISC Information Environment
IESR
Proprietary vendor Knowledge Base
Ex Libris Metalib Knowledge Base Endeavor
ENCompass
22
Limitations
Browser based Copy and paste details into your
Z-client admin tool Primarily open access i.e.
library catalogues Reliability and
maintenance Coverage academic focus
Human - machine
The hidden web
Where are all the other Z-targets? What about
other types of resources?
Locally installed, with updates Offline and
static Limited capability to share configurations
Proprietary vendor knowledge base
23
(No Transcript)
24
(No Transcript)
25
(No Transcript)
26
http//msdev1/webresolver/lookup.aspx?sidredirect
port.ac.ukaulastwyndham
Silkworm directory
27
(No Transcript)
28
(No Transcript)
29
(No Transcript)
30
(No Transcript)
31
Collection descriptions
Service descriptions
32
Collection descriptions
33
Collection descriptions
What to do when theres a critical mass of
service descriptions?
Searchable, discoverable service which needs to
work in machine to machine mode
Downloadable, configurable, sharable
Multi-faceted view of one description is a
generic CD useful? What can be done to build on
it and make it more useful?
34
Wish list
Machine to machine
Communication
Seamless
Invisible to users as DNS is now
Commercial data sources cross-sector library
catalogues
Comprehensive
Up-to-date, timely Long life!
Longevity
Automated
Maintenance overhead removed
Dependable Improve user experience
Reliable
35

• More information
• http//www.talis.com/research/silkworm/silkworm.sh
  tml
• Join the debate
• Silkworm forum - http//www.talis.com/forums/
• Contact
• katie.anstock_at_talis.com

36
(No Transcript)