CNI Spring 2005 Task Force Meeting

5 April 2005

Washington, D.C., USA

Two members of the IESR project team, Ann Apps and Amanda Hill, attended the CNI Spring 2005 Task Force Meeting in Washington, D.C. on 4-5 April 2005. A joint presentation with Jeremy Frumkin of the Ockham Initiative was given, entitled Creating a Digital Library Services Registry: Two Approaches.

The session was well-attended, and generated a number of interesting questions and follow-up conversations over the course of the day.

One issue that was raised was the chicken and egg problem, in that other applications may not wish to use the registry if there is limited information within it, while service providers are unlikely to want to provide information about their services if they are unclear about whether there will be any clear benefit to them in terms of increased use.

However, as no-one will be able to use something that does not exist at all, it was generally agreed that we do need to start somewhere, and that these two projects are undertaking a useful role in testing the need for registries of collections and services.

View the IESR presentation:
Introduction to the IESR (PowerPoint: 750kB);
Introduction to the IESR (PDF: 731kB).

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