Distributed Services Registry Workshop Scarman House, University of Warwick 14-15 July 2005

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Introduction

UKOLN's work on the JISC Information Environment Service Registry, the NISO Metasearch Initiative and the Dublin Core Collection Description Working Group convinces us that 'service registries' (i.e. databases of descriptions of available services and, where appropriate, associated collections) will be a critical part of the infrastructure for deploying service-oriented architectures and that a distributed approach is likely to be required in order that such services can operate successfully at a national or international scale.

The aim of the workshop is to:

• Share knowledge of current approaches in the area of service registries
• Consider the policies, IPR and data ownership issues, metadata schema(s) and protocol(s) necessary to achieve global interoperability of distributed DL service registries
• Agree future work, funding sources and partnerships in this area

Audience

We would like the audience to include a mix of technical and management staff, practitioners and policy makers from library, eScience/Grid, research, learning and other backgrounds.

Cost

There is no cost for this event although please note that we are unable to cover travel costs.

Registration

Please register your interest in attending on our registration form.

Travel News

Current information for those intending to travel through the London area can be found at found at the following websites:

• For updates on the London Underground please visit: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/service_realtime_all.shtml
• For updatesLondon buses please visit: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/service_rt_bus.shtml
• For National rail enquiries: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

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