Architecture Notes

What we need to define

Implemention of the O.K.I. Repository OSID for metasearch engines

  • Repository OSID implementations for MetaLib and SingleSearch
    • Asset Types, RecordStructures and PartStructures for our needs
  • Separation between the "Magic Library Server" and Sakai
    • A metadata standard for communications over SRU+CQL HTTP transactions (i.e. how should citation results be packaged when coming into Sakai from the library?)
  • Should we support multiple different metadata standards? Which ones?
  • Authentication and authorization issues between an institution, Sakai, the Repository OSID implementation and the metasearch engine
    • it's been recommended by Jeff Kahn that we take a look at Tufts' VUE application code to better understand authn/authz issues (and a number of other similar issues common between VUE and Sakaibrary)

Metadata standards

Citations, CitationLists and Citation-services within Sakai

  • how Citations are represented within Sakai
    • metadata fields
    • Citation methods (what can a Citation do, what can be done to a Citation)
  • how Citations are stored (RDF storage)
  • Citation export/import services to exchange with external citation managers such as RefWorks, ProCite, etc.

A system to access fulltext of citations using OpenURLs

  • a minimal set of metadata fields that are required to build a functional OpenURL
  • a set of guidelines for institutions describing "best practices" for configuring OpenURL link resolvers to maximize efficiency of the Sakaibrary system and their OpenURL link resolver in general

What's the request-response system for communicating between Sakai and the MLS?

  • Possibility: metalib model
  • Issues:
    • Authentication
    • Session and set IDs
    • How to do pagination/cursors

Levels of OpenURL usage

  • Do we get enough data out of WebBridge to create OpenURLs?
  • If not, do we fall back to vendor-specific URLs and a proxy-server setting?

Who is doing what

Implemention of the OKI Repository OSID for metasearch engines

  • Steve, Gaurav (Repository OSID)
  • Bill, Gaurav ("Magic Library Server")

Metadata standards

  • Steve, Gaurav (Repository OSID)
  • Bill, Gaurav ("Magic Library Server")
  • Jim (Citations)

Citations, CitationLists and Citation-services within Sakai

  • Jim

A system to access fulltext of citations using OpenURLs

  • Gaurav

When we want things to be done

Implemention of the OKI Repository OSID for metasearch engines

  • timeline

Metadata standards

  • timeline

Citations, CitationLists and Citation-services within Sakai

  • timeline

A system to access fulltext of citations using OpenURLs

  • timeline