SRU Implementors Group Meeting/Integration Workshop

GENERAL INFORMATION

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AGENDAS: SRU Meeting - Integration Workshop

A meeting of the SRU Implementors Group will be held March 1-2, 2006, followed by a 1-day workshop March 3, "Integration of Services - Integration of Standards". The meeting and workshop will be hosted by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek-National Library of the Netherlands, in The Hague.

Those interested may attend either or both. There is no charge for attending, however, attendance is limited: The SRU meeting March 1-2 will be limited to 50 participants; the Integration Workshop will accomodate a few more (75-100). So please register.

The local contact, and contact for the Integration Workshop, is Theo van Veen.

Further details about the SRU meeting will be coming soon.

Following is a brief description of the Integration Workshop.

There are services/protocols like SRU, OpenURL and OAI, which have been standardized or at least formalized to some degree. There are however other services/mechanisms which could benefit from some degree of formalization or implementor agreement (if not standardization). These include access mechanisms (URL-GET URL-POST, XML-POST or XML-SOAP), resolution services, and using results of services as input to other services. For example, perhaps we can develop agreements on how to use the results of various forms of authentication in SRU.

Additional areas of investigation potentially include:
1) Registries of services, integration with Google, Opensearch
2) OpenURL and COiNS, AJAX, security issues
3) Metadata, collection and service descriptions
4) SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and REST
5) Authentication (Shibboleth)
6) Metasearch, MXG
7) Formal descriptions of services in a knowledge database, Web 2.0

The workshop should help us begin to define ways of integrating different services, decide which are candidates for standardization, which need implementor agreements. The workshop goal is to formulate some recommendations and agreements in some of these areas.