The JISC Information Environment Service Registry IESR Ann

The JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) Ann Apps Mimas, The University of Manchester, UK

Outline • • • Purpose and use of IESR domain model IESR Metadata Description IESR Collaborations and Future Contributing a Repository Description 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 2

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 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 3

Service Registry Use Registry Discover Client / Portal 2007 -11 -28 Register / Contribute Invoke Collection / Service JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 4

Metasearch Portal Scenario • Physicist, Mary: literature survey about Higgs-Boson particle • Portal discovers bibliographic collections about particle physics with Z 39. 50 – Vocabulary service needed • Portal provides to Mary result of Z 39. 50 cross-search using ‘Higgs-Boson’ in ‘title’ 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 5

Benefits of Dynamic Use • Portal – Amalgamated set of resources • IESR provides: – Discover: resource collections – Locate: access details – Invoke: interface connection details • Portal builder doesn’t need to know about all resources • Users discover collections unaware of 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 6

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 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 7

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 OAIPMH harvest • Uses IESR details of OAI-PMH service to plug into application 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 8

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 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 9

IESR Domain Model Collection has. Service 2007 -11 -28 owner administrator Agent JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 10

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 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 11

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 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 12

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 • Collection’s own vocabulary 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 13

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IESR Service Metadata • Bespoke: properties to support discovery and registry application • IESR agnostic about protocol – Single access method / protocol: – SRU, Z 39. 50, SOAP, OAI-PMH, Web/CGI • Location URL • Brief authentication details • Connection details – interface – appropriate standard 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 15

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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) – Attribution–required (attribute provenance) • Contributors agree to this licence 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 17

IESR Services • • • Web Search and Browse OAI-PMH for harvest: entity XML Open. URL: IESR identifier resolution Z 39. 50: composite XML Data Contribution – contact IESR: – Data Editor – Ingest by OAI-PMH harvest – (‘Put’ under development) 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 18

Metadata Schema Use • OCKHAM Registry (US NSDL) – Outcomes of NSF projects • Online Research Collections Australian (ORCA) • a. DORe Digital Object Repository (LANL) • Standards development: – DC Collections AP: now conformant – NISO Metasearch Initiative CD Spec 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 19

IESR Future • Funded until July 2009 • More content – E. g. JISC Collections; England NHS • Harvested content – E. g. Open. DOAR repositories; OCKHAM • Persistence and quality of content • Demonstrate and encourage viable use 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 20

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 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 21

Contribution to IESR • Not in Open. DOAR and would like to be in IESR? • Contribute by: – http: //iesr. ac. uk/be-included/ • Please fill in template 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 22

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, Z 39. 50 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 23

IESR Details Thank You! Questions? http: //iesr. ac. uk/ iesr@mimas. ac. uk ann. apps@manchester. ac. uk 2007 -11 -28 JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting 24