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UKOLN is supported by:

Interoperability: Who Cares?

Peter Cliff, Research Officer, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK

SUETr Interoperability Workshop, The LSE Library, December 2008

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We Are SUETr

• JISC Project

• March 2008 – March 2009

• SUE projects surveyed to identify training needs

• Five workshops

• This is one of them

                                                             

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Coming soon…• Advocacy & Cultural Change

• 22nd January 2009• York

• Embedding Repositories• 10th February 2009• Lincoln

• Repository Policy• 18th February 2009• Aberystwyth

• Increasing Usage (?) - TBA

                                                             

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SUETr NOT SUET!

                                                             

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Interoperability• “…is the ability of a system or a product to

work with other systems or products without special effort on the part of the customer. Interoperability becomes a quality of increasing importance for information technology products as the concept that “The network is the computer” becomes a reality…”

whatis.com in year 2000

                                                             

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• “…is the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort on the part of the customer. Interoperability becomes a quality of increasing importance for information technology products as the concept that “The network is the computer” becomes a reality…”

whatis.com in year 2000

Interoperability

platform

                                                             

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Put it another way…

“The repository home page is over. The user doesn’t care about the institution, the collection, the academic department. They want to create, manage and discover stuff from where ever they happen to be. This means deep linking, addressable resources and linked data. This means interoperability.”

                                                             

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The Repository Network

                                                             

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The Repository Network

                                                             

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The Repository Network

                                                             

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The Repository Network

REF?

ReportingToolsLinkageMigration

                                                             

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Interoperability II

“…the junk which enables the people (users) to get the stuff (rich content) they want…”

Paul Miller, paraphrasing Sarah Tyacke

‘Interoperability’, Ariadne Issue 24

                                                             

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• Technical

• Semantic• Together these are the “how” and the “what”

• Political/Human

• Inter-community

• Legal

• International

Types of Interoperability

                                                             

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• Technical

• Semantic• Together these are the “how” and the “what”

• Political/Human

• Inter-community

• Legal

• International

This morning…Building blocksto enable sharing

                                                             

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• Technical

• Semantic• Together these are the “how” and the “what”

• Political/Human

• Inter-community

• Legal

• International

This afternoon…

Addressing fearsof open access

                                                             

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Programme1030 Introduction to SUETr & What is Interoperability?

1045 Interoperability Fundamentals: RSS/Atom

1115 Interoperability Fundamentals: SWORD

1145 Coffee

1215 Interoperability Fundamentals: OAI-PMH/ORE

1245 Interoperability of enhanced publications: The DRIVER Report

1300 Lunch

1400 Interoperability and Stakeholders

1500 “10 steps” – if you don’t learn anything but this today…

1515 Final questions for all speakers/discussion

1530 Finish

                                                             

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Questions?