Transcript If you don`t remember anything but these

If you don’t remember
anything else, remember
these…
Peter Cliff, Research Officer, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
SUETr Interoperability Workshop, The LSE Library, December 2008
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Over to you… 
• Write on a piece of paper the one
thing you learnt today that you do not
want to forget
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Some things
• Interoperability is about improving
your chances of reducing
costs/barriers
• Interoperability takes effort
• RSS is on its way out, use Atom
• Web architecture
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More things…
• Addressable resources
• How else will you describe an aggregation?
• Cool URIs
• http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
• Announce your interfaces
• SWORD/OAI-PMH base URLs
• Use standards
• But consider the motivations behind them &
are they adopted?
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More things
• Check if anyone is doing what you want to
do and steal from/help them
• Good APIs project
• DRIVER report
• Ensure you are meeting user needs
• Don’t get hung up on “doing it the Web 2.0”
|| “Semantic Web” way – just do something
• Remember the simple things: robots.txt,
open HTTP access to resources, etc.
• Compromise
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Summary
• Demonstrated ways of getting content
in
• Demonstrated ways of getting content
out and facilitating novel uses of that
content
• Seen some ways to describe that
content
• Not just technologies, but it’s a start
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Questions & discussion
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