IESR cluster summary
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IESR
The Information Environment Service Registry (http://iesr.ac.uk/) is one of the building blocks of the Information Environment. It holds information about electronic resources and the technical services through which they can be accessed, as well as details about the organisations which provide the resources and services. The aim is to supply enough technical information so that portal-builders and developers of other applications can use the IESR to provide (for example) cross-searching facilities over those resources that are of interest to the users of the portal/application.
The IESR's data is available through a variety of protocols (http://iesr.ac.uk/use/), including a web interface - although this is definitely not the point of the service, which is intended to be invisible to 'real' users. An online editor for the creation of descriptions was added this month - further information is on the 'Be Included' pages of the site. A variety of technical access methods can be described in the IESR, including OAI-PMH repositories, Z39.50 access to library OPACs and Web Services. Most of the resources currently described are only accessible through web pages, but we anticipate that this will change over the next few years.
Questions:
- How do IESR's aims fit with related registry efforts such as ROAR and OpenDOAR?
- What is the best way for the various registries to collaborate and inter-operate (while keeping barriers to inclusion low for the contributors of information)?
