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We've set up this blog to act as a source of information about Service Registries.
In the UK, we're working on the JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR), while there are parallel initiatives going on in the USA (the OCKHAM registry and a registry at the Los Alamos National Laboratory) and in Australia (the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories).
The aim of Service Registries is to help users get access to useful electronic resources. Service Registries provide a mechanism for advertising such resources on the network so that other applications, such as portals, can find and connect to them.
The metadata schema devised for IESR (and now being adapted for use in other projects) allows the recording of information about the electronic resources themselves, technical details about how to access the resources, and contact details for the resource providers. Jeremy Frumkin of the OCKHAM project identified three primary functions of such registries:
In the UK, we're working on the JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR), while there are parallel initiatives going on in the USA (the OCKHAM registry and a registry at the Los Alamos National Laboratory) and in Australia (the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories).
The aim of Service Registries is to help users get access to useful electronic resources. Service Registries provide a mechanism for advertising such resources on the network so that other applications, such as portals, can find and connect to them.
The metadata schema devised for IESR (and now being adapted for use in other projects) allows the recording of information about the electronic resources themselves, technical details about how to access the resources, and contact details for the resource providers. Jeremy Frumkin of the OCKHAM project identified three primary functions of such registries:
(In 'The need for a digital library service registry', OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives Vol. 22 No. 1, 2006, pp.23-25)
- discovery - allowing a user or a machine to discover available, relevant services
- resolution - providing the ability for a person or machine to locate, or resolve to, a service; and
- configuration - provide information necessary for a client to access a particular service
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