1 Introducing Technical Standards Paul Miller Interoperability Focus UK Office for Library & Information Networking (UKOLN) [email protected]http:// www.ukoln.ac.uk/ UKOLN is funded by Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from JISC and the EU. UKOLN also receives support from the Universities of Bath and Hull where staff are based.
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Introducing Technical Standards
Paul Miller
Interoperability FocusUK Office for Library & Information Networking (UKOLN)
UKOLN is funded by Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from JISC and the EU. UKOLN also receives support from the Universities of Bath and Hull where staff are based.
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Joined up Talking
e–Government
A Netful of Jewels
e–Culture“the Semantic Web”
New Library: the People’s Network
Virtual Museum of Canada.
MEG
e–*
e–University
CIMI
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Joined up Building
The People’s Network
Distributed National Electronic Resource
ukonline.gov / firstgov.gov / *.gov
AMICO
CHIN.
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Joined up Doing= Interoperability
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What is interoperability?
“to be interoperable, one should actively be engaged in the ongoing
process of ensuring that the systems, procedures and culture of an organisation are managed in such a way as to maximise opportunities for exchange and re-use of information, whether internally or externally.”
See www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/interoperability/See www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/interoperability/
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Why interoperate?
because, at the end of the day, the user really doesn’t care which high quality data repository gives them the stuff they want…
…so long as they can get it!.
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Why interoperate?
• The cultural heritage need not respect organisational views we impose upon it• A virtual museum of all Da Vinci’s work?• All of the Parthenon stonework in one place,
virtually if not in reality?• The content of the British Museum available
to people in a language other than English?• The paintings of the Louvre, explained to a
seven year–old?• Books, archival folios, and physical objects
relating to a topic available together?.
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Why interoperate?
• Internally…• to manage our information better
• Externally…• to be more visible• to meet the needs of our (often remote) users• to align with ‘portal’, etc., developments• To minimise manual repackaging of information
in response to every request, exhiblet, etc..
See www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/interoperability/See www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/interoperability/
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How to interoperate…
• Depends upon the situation, of course, but…
standards
standards
standards!de facto
de jure
national
international
community
initiative
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So… why use standards?
• Benefit from the expertise of others• Enforce rigour in internal practices• Facilitate interoperability (and access)
– NOF projects receive public money, for the public good
– Considered deployment of standard solutions makes access to your resources feasible for many.
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What do standards do?
• Help identify what’s important– CIMI’s “Access Points”– Mandatory fields
• Allow for consistent use of terminology– Name Authority Files– Thesauri– Look–up tables
• Enable internal and external data exchange or access