The%20JISC%20Information%20Environment%20Service%20Registry%20(IESR)

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The JISC Information Environment Service Registry
(IESR)

• Ann Apps
• Mimas,
• The University of Manchester, UK

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Outline

• Purpose and use of IESR
• IESR domain model
• IESR Metadata Description
• IESR Collaborations and Future
• Contributing a Repository Description

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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

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Service Registry Use
Registry
Register / Contribute
Discover
Client / Portal
Collection / Service
Invoke
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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

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Benefits of Dynamic Use

• Portal
• Amalgamated set of resources
• IESR provides
• Discover resource collections
• Locate access details
• Invoke interface connection details
• Portal builder doesnt need to know about all
  resources
• Users discover collections unaware of

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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

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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

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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

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IESR Domain Model
Collection
hasService
owner
Agent
Service
administrator
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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

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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

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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
• Collections own vocabulary

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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

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IESR Creative Commons Licence

• All IESR records licensed under a Creative
  Commons licence
• Non-commercial (freely available)
• Share-alike (maintain same licence)
• Attributionrequired (attribute provenance)
• Contributors agree to this licence

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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IESR Details

• Thank You! Questions?
• http//iesr.ac.uk/
• iesr_at_mimas.ac.uk
• ann.apps_at_manchester.ac.uk