People

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People Resources Identification for
Distributed Environments
Andrew Colleran, Quercus
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Overview

• Partners and progress so far
• The Vision for PRIDE
• Implementing PRIDE

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Project partners

• academic
• University of East Anglia
• Macquarie University, Australia
• Bibliothèque de l'Université René Descartes -
  Paris V
• Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Universitätsbibliot
  hek, Magdeburg
• CERLIM, Manchester Metropolitan University
• LITC, South Bank University, London
• UKOLN, University of Bath
• University College Dublin

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partners

• suppliers
• Fretwell-Downing
• IQSoft, Budapest
• London and South Eastern Library Region (LASER)
• Quercus Information Ltd
• sponsors
• British Library
• BLCMP

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Plan

• Phase 1 requirements specification
• June 1998 to February 1999
• Phase 2 development
• February 1999 to January 2000
• Phase 3 demonstration and assessment
• January 2000 to June 2000

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So far...

• Requirements Success Factors
• State of the Art study
• Legal Commercial Issues
• http//lirn.viscount.org.uk/pride/d221.pdf
• Architecture Interfaces
• including Logical Component and Integration
  Designs

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Goals of the project

• a broker service to support the identification
  and delivery of information services over the
  Global Information Infrastructure
• provide support for authorisation, registration
  cost recovery and integration with other
  interfaces to library services

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Concept
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Perspectives on PRIDE

• Library
• Manage contractual legal obligations
• Follow policies and preferences of its parent
  body
• Information Supplier
• Protection of investment and rights in the
  product
• Collection from a broker or user of appropriate
  fees in an efficient and cost beneficial manner
• User
• Unified and coherent view
• Best usage conditions

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PRIDE Architecture
Design Criteria Open and Standard Scalable General
Integrated Heterogeneous Access Extensible
X.500/DAP
CORBA/IIOP
LDAP
Z39.50/SR
WWW/CGI
PRIDE Directory
Universal Client
Alerting Agent
ILL
Z39.50 Explain
Curator Agent
Z39.50 Proxy
Access, Population Proxies
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PRIDE other projects

• LIDDAS - Australia
• GAIA - authentication payment
• UNIVERSE

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The PRIDE Directory

• hybrid X.500 and LDAP directory
• X.500 - scalability and management
• LDAP - low cost participation
• transparent access to LDAP servers
• directory neutral SDK
• DAP and LDAP
• consistent LDAP-style API

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PRIDE Schema

• build on international standards
• people - contact information
• organisations - for resource grouping
• collections and services
• real-world objects
• SDI profiles
• authentication

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Access Mechanisms and Clients

• PRIDE Universal Client
• Web (CGI) end-user and admin interface
• registration, resource discovery, admin
  functions, SDI profiles, client call-out
• CORBA Access Gateway
• IDL interface
• Z39.50 Access Gateway
• LDAP/DAP

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Harvesters and Agents

• PRIDE agent toolkit (Perl)
• directory populating agents
• Z39.50 Explain harvester
• RDF harvester
• automatic reformatting agents
• curator agent
• alerting agent

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Z39.50 Proxies
PRIDE Directory

• Experience gained in Z39.50 proxy development may
  lead to ILL proxy

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Pride Summary

• Implement a rich and flexible directory schema
• service description
• authorisation access
• user profiles
• "a part of the whole"
• integrate with existing solutions

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• The end

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