Service registries

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Example registries

• IESR, UK

• US National Virtual Observatory initiative (Astronomy. Registries: Carnivore, NVO Reg.)

• National Virtual Observatory (NVO) Data and Service Locator (USA)

• Carnivore: VO registry with publishing, querying and harvesting

• Carnivore overview

• IVOA Resource Registry Working Group (with list of registries)

• ESAVO Full Harvestable VO Resource Registry

• OCKHAM Digital Library Services Registry (USA)

• The European Library, TEL (collection descriptions , incl. rudimentary service indicators, are used in search and browse collections)

• myGRID registry (registry itself hard to find) + OMII Grimoires registry project

• OCLC Global OpenURL Resolver Registry

• DLF Aquifer project: DLF Collections registry and UIUC/IMLS registry effort

• Library vendors service registries (e.g. ExLibris Knowledge Base)

OAI registries, global

• OAI registry at UIUC

• Open DOAR (incl. fulltext search of repositories as far as indexed in Google)

• ROAR (Southampton)

Registries planned

• NSDL Registry (OCKHAM), USA (Service registry planned)

• Australian Collections Service Registry project (coord. by the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories APSR)

• UK GRID/E-Science Centre? Network of service registries

• JISC E-Learning Framework and Virtual Research Environments

• SCONE, Scottish collection description service (45 Z services, soon OAI services)

• MICHAEL project (Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe), Collection-level meta-data; Description of a Service or Product possible

• aDORe Service Registry (Service registry planned)

• [List of collection description databases]

Approaches to registries

• UDDI

• OCKHAM

Standards

• ISO 2146 -Information and Documentation- Registry Services for Libraries and Related Organisations: ISO TC46 SC4 Working draft, 13 Dec 2005

• ISO 2146 XML Schema

Degree of distribution

• centralized (central access)

• federated (distributed creation, central access)

• replicated (distributed access)

• distributed interoperable (distributed cooperative creation and access. Referrals or Cross-search)

• distributed non-interoperable (distributed independent creation and access)

Registry software

• IESR (software not publicly available at this time)

• Ockham DLSR Version 1.0.3

• Grimoires registry software

• Infravio: X-Registry Platform 5 (registry-repository platform for Governance of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects)

• WikiD (OCLC) use for collaborative maintenance of registries

• CARNIVORE open source registry software

• Sun's Service Registry, included as a component of Sun's Java Enterprise System, beginning with Release 4 in Fall 2005, based on ebXML Registry standard (3.0) and supporting UDDI 3.0 .

Service registry discussion fora

• Service registries Blog (IESR)

• OCKHAM: 2 lists, both almost without content

• NSDL Registry Blog (Metadata registries ++)

• Jeremy Frumkin's blog "Digital Librarian"

Content by: Traugott Koch of UKOLN.
Created: 2005-08-25
Page last modified: 2007-01-10
Email comments to: t.koch@ukoln.ac.uk
URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/~tk213/service-registries.html