Enhancing Resource Discovery for Digital Information Management

Resource Discovery Landscape Andy Powell, UKOLN, University of Bath a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting 2005, London UKOLN is supported by: www.bath.ac.uk www.ukoln.ac.uk a centre of expertise in digital information management

Contents Based on main headings in the study… • general issues • provision • fusion • presentation • shared infrastructure Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

JISC IE and Google http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/ie-google/ • previous paper considered relationships between JISC IE and Google: • complimentary rather than alternative approaches • develop guidance for exposing content to Google • investigate use of Google APIs • special treatment for community’s ‘high-quality’ material – c.f. Google Scholar • encouraging use of OpenURLs by academic and commercial content providers Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

General issues • service oriented ‘frameworks’ • maturity of the JISC IE • manual vs. automated approaches • semantic Web • community-driven activities • p2p Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

General issues • service oriented approaches • maturity of the JISC IE • manual vs. automated approaches • semantic Web • community-driven activities • p2p Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Provision layer issues • the ‘R’ word • complex objects • metasearch vs. full-text indexing • simple search interfaces • identifiers learning object repository eprint archive repository CMS Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Provision layer issues • the ‘R’ word • complex objects • metasearch vs. full-text indexing • simple search interfaces • identifiers eprint (work) eprint (work) PDF (manifestation) PDF (manifestation) PDF manifestation MS-Word (manifestation) MS-Word (manifestation) now: expose separate simple objects (metadata only) future: expose complex objects (metadata and full text) Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Provision layer issues • the ‘R’ word • complex objects • metasearch vs. full-text indexing • simple search interfaces • identifiers Do I make my content available for indexing by Google or do I make my metadata available for harvesting using OAI-PMH? Do I support Z39.50 or SRW? What do I do about OpenURLs? Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Provision layer issues • the ‘R’ word • complex objects • metasearch vs. full-text indexing • simple of search interfaces • identifiers Z39.50 SRW Google API complexity A9 Opensearch Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Provision layer issues • the ‘R’ word • complex objects • metasearch vs. full-text indexing • simple search interfaces • identifiers What did this identifier used to identify? Has this resource already been assigned an identifier? How do I resolve this identifier? Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Fusion layer issues • union catalogues and Google • indexing and data mining • hiding a complex provision layer • performance measurement Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

repository repository repository repository repository heterogeneous - metadata formats, content formats, identifiers, packaging standards fusion layer ‘federator’ homogeneous - metadata formats, content formats, identifiers, packaging standards portal portal portal portal portal Fusion layer issues • union catalogues and Google • indexing and data mining • hiding a complex provision layer • performance measurement Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Fusion layer issues • union catalogues and Google • indexing and data mining • hiding a complex provision layer • performance measurement Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Presentation layer issues • the ‘P’ word • the other ‘P’ word • OpenURL ‘link servers’ • making openurl.ac.uk work globally • making OpenURLs work as URIs Why do I need a portal when I’ve got Firefox, Google and my favourite RSS channel reader installed on my desktop? Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Presentation layer issues • the ‘P’ word • the other ‘P’ word • OpenURL ‘link servers’ • making openurl.ac.uk work globally • making OpenURLs work as URIs > JSR 168 WSRP portlets Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Presentation layer issues • the ‘P’ word • the other ‘P’ word • OpenURL ‘link servers’ • making openurl.ac.uk work globally • making OpenURLs work as URIs works for member of University of Bath http://sfx4.exlibrisgroup.com:9003/bath?sid=ISI%3AWoS&issn=0213-3911&date=2005&spage=575&volume=20&issue=2 works for member of UK university http://openurl.ac.uk/?sid=ISI%3AWoS&issn=0213-3911&date=2005&spage=575&volume=20&issue=2 http://???/?sid=ISI%3AWoS&issn=0213-3911&date=2005&spage=575&volume=20&issue=2 works for everyone Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Shared services issues Note: I’m not going to talk about AAA • distributed service registries • metadata schema registries • identifier services • terminology services • licensing services • who’s using what licences? • ensuing persistence of licensing agreements? • automated metadata-generation tools • name authority services Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Shared services issues • distributed service registries • metadata schema registries • identifier services • terminology services • licensing services • who’s using what licences? • ensuing persistence of licensing agreements? • automated metadata-generation tools • name authority services Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Conclusions • the study makes 26 suggestions – too many to consider here – but general need to recognise that… • our services are not (and will never be) the sole focus of the end-user’s attention • our services fit into broader fabric of the Internet – therefore need to be able to be integrated by others • some things are better done by others • possible tension between Web-based ‘portal and browser ‘desktop application framework’ approaches • need to align eLeaning and ‘digital library’ Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Questions? Joint JIIE/JCS Meeting

Enhancing Resource Discovery for Digital Information Management