Shared Infrastructure Services: Interoperability session

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Shared Infrastructure Services Interoperability
session
25 October 2006 JISC Repositories and
Preservation Programme Meeting, London

Email R.Russell_at_ukoln.ac.uk URL http//www.ukoln.a
c.uk/

• Rosemary Russell
• UKOLN
• University of Bath

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Contents

• Which shared infrastructure services do
  repositories need to interoperate with?
• Scenario search add data to repository
• Contributing to IESR
• Service maturity

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Which SIS do repositories need to interoperate
with?

• Identifier services and open linking?
• Representation Information Registries?
• Format Registries?
• Managing digital resources/licencing?
• Service Registries CD?
• Metadata Schema Registries?
• Institutional Profiling Services?
• Terminology Services?
• Name Authority?

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Scenario search add data to repository
Shared infrastructure service
User activity
Service registry
Locate suitable collections
Terminology services
Support better cross search
Persistent identifiers
Appropriate retrieval route
Preservation metadata
OpenURL resolvers

Preservation metadata
Representation info registry
Metadata schema registry
Application profiles
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Interaction with SIS

IEMSR
IESR
Repository
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Contributing to eg IESR

• Information Environment Service Registry
• scope includes repositories, OPACs, non-JISC
  resources
• contribute - information about collections of
  resources, technical details on how to access,
  contact details for providers
• uses RSLP Collection Description Metadata Schema
  
• chicken/egg - IESR needs a critical mass of data
  to demonstrate a fully functional service
• benefits for repositories opens up resources
  to wider use (unknown resources discovered)

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Service maturity

• Some shared infrastructure services are more
  mature than others eg IESR one of most mature
  IEMSR looking for projects to work with
• UKOLN review uses JISC Development and Service
  Maturity Scale
• others dont yet existeg name authority JISC
  Circular 04/06 includes call for pilot