Shared Infrastructure Services Review

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Shared Infrastructure Services Review
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

• What are shared infrastructure services?
• What we did
• Report content
• Shared infrastructure services planning/
  development

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What are shared infrastructure services?

• a range of network services that are called on
  by content providers, brokers, aggregators,
  indexes, catalogues and portals. Infrastructure
  services include authentication, authorisation,
  service registry, user preferences, resolver,
  institutional profile, metadata schema registry
  and terminology services.
• Name changed to Shared Infrastructure Services in
  order to emphasise its about services that
  operate as underlying machine-to-machine (M2M)
  shared services

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JISC IE architecture
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Overview

• UKOLN commissioned by JISC
• with contributions by consultants
• Review started May 2006
• First draft workshop end June
• Near-final report July
• Final report September
• lthttp//www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/jisc-sis-re
  port-final.pdfgt

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What we did

• Developed a set of scenarios that demonstrate
  how and why shared infrastructure is required
• Synthesised the outcomes of effort to date, from
  JISC activities and the wider context
• Identified requirements for the next stage
• International and commercial context
• Identified risks
• Report - included direction-setting
  recommendations

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Report content

• JISC IE architecture e-Framework for Education
  and Research
• Digital Policy Management (DRM)
• Scenarios
• Personalisation
• Repositories
• Status report - JISC projects related
  initiatives
• 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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Shared infrastructure services development

• Emphasis on building infrastructure
• JISC Circular 04/06 Repositories and
  Preservation Programme includes work packages
  based on review recommendations
• Also
• Ongoing funding for infrastructure services
• once deployed, where JISC is provider
• eg JANET model
• may involve strategic partnerships for funding