Stuart Mills Logica

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The Catalogue Interoperability Protocol
(CIP)Implementations

• Stuart Mills (Logica)
• BNSC, 10 September 1997,
• UK Seminar on Development of ISO Standards for
• Open Archival Information Systems

LOGICA
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Presentation Overview

• Introduction
• CIP-A Demonstrator
• ESA MMBS Interface
• Other Implementations
• CEO Enabling Services - Search

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Introduction

• Various Z39.50 implementations (V2, V3)
• CIP - new concept
• Iterative development approach
• Two prototypes, Z39.50 CIP-A Demonstrator
• CIP-A Demonstrator released by CEO
• ESA CIP implementations
• CEO Enabling Services - Search CIP-A, then CIP-B

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CIP-A Demonstrator - Overview

• Objective 1 - CIP Concept For a demonstration
  prototype to verify CIP and promote CIP awareness
• Objective 2 - CIP-A Feedback To provide feedback
  on the CIP-A spec and inputs to the CIP-B spec
• Objective 3 - Public Domain SW Part of CEO
  programme for user services, to provide CIP
  public domain software
• Timescale August 1996 to March 1997 (PSS-05/RAD
  !)
• CIP Functions Collections database, Product
  descriptor and Remote search, Retrieval Manager
  (with Z39.50 DBV-OSI package), Explain database,
  GRS-1 Results, Order prototype, Browse, WWW
  Client/Server, ISIS/MARF catalogues
• Team Logica, DLR, Joanneum Research, (Eumetsat)

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CIP-A Demonstrator - Architecture
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CIP-A Demonstrator - Key Results

• SW Methods SRD/ADD OMT, Code C/C, Perl/HTML,
  SQL
• Shareware Gnu Compiler gcc, libg, STL, gdb,
  rcs Hughes Technology Pty RDBMS MiniSQL
  Crossnet DBV-OSI
• CIP-A Feedback
• Matching the Use attribute values to the tag
  values in a single tag set
• Anonymous schema elements - explicit
  identification
• DataCentre - mandatory if applicable
• Use of OtherInfo rather than AdditionalInfo in
  Search request
• Removal of Included ItemDescriptorIds from
  present records
• Naming of collection database (like Explain) to
  aid generic client
• Objectives Analysis
• CIP-B specification inputs
• CIP-A (revised) feasible RM, Collections,
  Explain and WWW access
• Shareware available - taken by ESA, NASA and
  other CEO projects

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MMBS Interface - Overview/Results

• MMBS IF CIP Translator for ESA MMBS catalogue
• Dem/MMBS Tasks
• Install and configure CIP-A Demonstrator at
  ESRIN
• Decouple MARF / ISIS Translators - incorporate
  MMBS Translator
• Build collections and Explain databases
• Test and document software
• CIP-A client, previously ESA developed
  integrated
• Results
• Prototypes installed and configured and
  operational
• Decoupled translators cleaner but less
  efficient
• System providing access to Browse data images -
  MUIS/CIP forerunner
• CIP Domain Another node in the growing CIP domain

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MMBS Interface - Architecture
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Other CIP Implementations

• NASA
• CIP-A Demonstrator installed/configured in the
  US (Hughes)
• ECS/CIP (part of EOSDIS) translator developed
• Decoupled interface integrated and operational
• CEO
• 2 separate Demonstrator installations underway
  for internal catalogues
• 5 catalogues to be integrated in CIP experiment
  (UK,Germany,France)
• NASDA
• Thinking about CIP gateway for EOIS
• CCRS
• Thinking about CIP gateway for CEONet

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ES Search - Objectives/Aspects

• Primary Search Objectives
• Operational CIP-A and Bib-1 servers within CEO
  Middleware Node
• Part of Enabling Service programme (EarthInfo
  system)
• CEO promotion of CIP data provision
  (facilitators)
• Shareware software - configurable gateways
• ECS/CIP (part of EOSDIS) translator developed
• Search 1 of 6 ES work packages (also DD, AA,
  Help, RM, IT)
• Key Search Aspects
• PSS-05 development
• Schedule of core project Jan 97 to Dec 97
• Consortium Logica, DLR, Joanneum Research,
  Crossnet, (Eumetsat)
• CIP/ODBC Gateway, WWW Client/Server, Catalogue
  translators

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ES Search - Status

• Phases
• Phase 1 Requirements - complete (SRD/IRD/TN
  outputs)
• Phase 2.1 - Architecture - completed (ADD/ICD
  outputs)
• Phase 2.2 User Interface prototyping -
  completed
• Phase 2.3 Detailed Design/Implementation -
  underway
• Phases 3/4 System/Acceptance Tests, ES
  Integration, Phase B
• Methods and Tools
• OMT - SRD/ADD, C, C Perl/HTML, SQL
• Oracle (for Collections/Explain), Developer 2000
• Gnu compilers, cvs, Insure, OpenLink ODBC
• Developed on SUN Solaris and HP
• Gateways to be ported to WinNT

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ES Search - Architecture
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ES Search - Search
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Presentation Summary

• Phased CIP definition then Phased CIP development
• Prototyping used to verify concepts
• Key CIP objectives, being realised
• CEO and CEOS PTT promoting CIP and CIP software
• Harmonisation activities under analysis
• Well on road to service interoperability via CIP
• Next stage CIP catalogue implementation ?

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Information

• CIP Demonstrator Software
• Arnulf Kjeldsen, CEO, arnulf.kjeldsen_at_jrc.it
• Carlo Lavalle, CEO, carlo.lavalle_at_jrc.it
• Manlio Trovato (Logica), trovatom_at_logica.com
• Stuart Mills (Logica), millss_at_logica.com
• ES Search Software
• Arnulf Kjeldsen, CEO, arnulf.kjeldsen_at_jrc.it
• Michel Millot, CEO, michel.millot_at_jrc.it
• Stuart Mills (Logica), millss_at_logica.com