[Web4lib] Integration of Services - Integration of Standards, March 3, The Hague

[Theo van Veen]

*Apologies for cross posting*

 

A preliminary program is now available for the 1-day workshop
"Integration of Services - Integration of Standards" at
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/march06-meeting/workshop.html. This
workshop to be held March 3, 2006, following a meeting of the SRU
Implementors Group by March 1-2. The workshop and the meeting will be
hosted by the Royal Library of the Netherlands, in The Hague. 

 

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 March 3 will accommodate a few more (75-100). So
please register early.

 

Meeting information will be maintained at:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/march06-meeting/index.html

 

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, Web 2.0

- OpenURL and COinS, AJAX, security issues

- Metadata, collection and service descriptions

- SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and REST

- Authentication (Shibboleth)

- Metasearch, MXG, Opensearch

 

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 or potential agreements in some of these areas.

 

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Theo van Veen

Ray Denenberg