The JISC Bridging the Interoperability Divide [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres/repositories_sue/bid.aspx BID project] is a collaboration between the [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ OUCS], [http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/sers/ SERS] and [http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ OeRC] departments at the University of Oxford. The project partners will build an institutional repository system that integrates services within the learning, research and teaching practice domains.

Technical implementation

Staff will collaborate from the three departments to implement services that interoperate according to an institutional design. The design will utilise the service-oriented approach to integrate the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_Resource_Broker SRB], [http://sakaiproject.org/ SAKAI ]and [http://www.fedora.info/ Fedora ]applications to provide system wide federated search, harvest and deposit services.

OUCS

At OUCS the SAKAI system is being developed and maintained to support the learning and teaching practice domain. SAKAI is a 'container' type system, designed to make the integration of new tools by SAKAI partners as easy and robust as possible. Tools include wiki, forum, chat, <insert complete list>.

Colin Tatham will be the lead developer and project officer of the OUCS contribution to the BID project. Colin will work with Howard Noble and Adam Marshall to implement the required repository services within the SAKAI system. The aim is to adapt code created on the JISC ASK project to provide the following services within the SAKAI implementation at Oxford:

federated search compliant with Z39.50, SRW and SRU capable of searching the following targets <insert list using WW1 examples>
reading list creation and management
desktop to repository deposit
Shibboleth-compliant authentication
User-managed authorisation facility
User-managed group service
Metadata management based on MODS and METS
Content management

Tasks

OUCS - 001

Name: ASK Project Technical Evaluation and Sustainability
Responsibility: Howard Noble, Peter Crowther
Support: Colin Tatham
Resources:
Milestone: Report by Sep 15 2007
Deliverable(s):

This task is broadly about getting the ASK software ready for the BID project. To do this we need to first perform a technical evaluation in terms of robustness of each component and the performance of the ASK Online System as a whole.

Sub-tasks:

gain performance statistics of ASK Online System using a facility such as http://profiler.netbeans.org/ , http://www.eclipse.org/tptp/ , http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/
define use of repository services by SAKAI tools/ services e.g. each of wiki, forum, chat
scope removal of VFS and eXist components to be replaced with a Fedora instance (possibly through compliance with JSR 170)
scope integration with SAKAI group service in place eXist
scope integration of annotation service
scope integration of tagging facility
scope use of lucene to provide indexing service

OUCS - 002

Name: repository requirements gathering
Responsibility: Howard Noble
Support:
Resources:
Milestone:
Deliverable(s):

OUCS - 003