The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) at The Hague will host a meeting of the SRU Implementors Group by March 1-2, followed by a 1-day workshop titled "Integration of Services - Integration of Standards" by March 3, 2006.
The location is the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) in The Hague
Attendance is limited. Further information: Theo van Veen
Following is a brief and tentative 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:
- Registries of services, integration with Google, Opensearch
- OpenURL and COiNS, AJAX, security issues
- Metadata, collection and service descriptions
- SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and REST
- Authentication (Shibboleth)
- Metasearch, MXG
- 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 agreement. The workshop goal is to formulate some recommendations and agreements in some of these areas.