If you dont remember anything else remember these
If you don’t remember anything else, remember these… Peter Cliff, Research Officer, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK SUETr Interoperability Workshop, The LSE Library, December 2008 UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution-Share. Alike 2. 0 www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management
Over to you… • Write on a piece of paper the one thing you learnt today that you do not want to forget www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management
Some things • Interoperability is about improving your chances of reducing costs/barriers • Interoperability takes effort • RSS is on its way out, use Atom • Web architecture www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management
More things… • Addressable resources • How else will you describe an aggregation? • Cool URIs • http: //www. w 3. org/Provider/Style/URI • Announce your interfaces • SWORD/OAI-PMH base URLs • Use standards • But consider the motivations behind them & are they adopted? www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management
More things • Check if anyone is doing what you want to do and steal from/help them • Good APIs project • DRIVER report • Ensure you are meeting user needs • Don’t get hung up on “doing it the Web 2. 0” || “Semantic Web” way – just do something • Remember the simple things: robots. txt, open HTTP access to resources, etc. • Compromise www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management
Summary • Demonstrated ways of getting content in • Demonstrated ways of getting content out and facilitating novel uses of that content • Seen some ways to describe that content • Not just technologies, but it’s a start www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management
Questions & discussion www. ukoln. ac. uk A centre of expertise in digital information management
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