Grid+Services

Moderated by Eric Hellman, Director of [|Openly Informatics] at OCLC

Notes from the discussion:

To understand the definition of "grid services," think of how electricty is managed as grids in urban areas. Generally there are several different services that need to come together to create a comprehensive electrical infrastructure for the town. Similarly, the phrase "grid services" is being used in the computing world to denote how several different "machines" come together to create a greater computing infrastructure. Examples in the library world are [|OAI - Open Archives Initiative].

Question: what machine-to-machine services do libraries need, what service can libraries provide.

digital repositories? already have [|OAI-PMH], for example, but things like [|OAIster] don't meet needs of e.g. image archives. knowing what is digitized? a potential service libraries can expose.

interoperability- pulling together disparate sources middleware what does grid mean? - analogy to electrical grid- stuff comes out of the socket- you don't think how it gets there.

example services [| xisbn] - real xlccn - desired oclcnum - desired

real time availability exposed by libraries- could be exposed in many places

NCIP, NCIP2 - check in checkout books. standards need to be more widely implemented.

multiple versions, relationships. FRBR, related ontologies. how is FRBR implemented? RDF or what? (or what.) traditional cataloguing- item manifestation info
 * Though it is worth noting that work has already been done on expressing both http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core and http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/extended FRBR concepts in RDF, thanks to Ian Davis, Richard Newman, and Bruce D'Arcus

federated tagging, aggregation of tag/review/social metadata etc.

Grid services in music: [|Last.fm]

transactional data

(terminology services)
 * place names grouping (Istanbul, Constantople, Byzantium)
 * temporal resolver- dates
 * OFAF - old fashioned authority files

google - is access to data (machine) services shrinking??

keys to APIs? are they OK? no one likes them but if the API is good, it's a price willing to pay.