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Monica Bonett, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK |
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M.Bonett@ukoln.ac.uk |
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Introduce UKOLN and IMeshtk project |
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Subject Gateways overview |
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Personalization - why and how |
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SOAP intro |
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SOAP and user profiles management |
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Conclusion - open issues |
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Centre of expertise in digital information
management www.ukoln.ac.uk |
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Research, policy and awareness, information
services, events, tools and infrastructure |
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Working across communities |
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HE and FE, Public libraries, Cultural heritage
(museums, galleries and archives), Government |
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….developing tools |
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for subject gateways…. |
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Resource discovery guides based on resource
descriptions |
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High level of manual creation/intervention,
often by information and/or subject specialists |
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Search and browse access |
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Quality control |
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collection development policy, selection and
quality criteria, maintenance and updating procedures. |
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Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) |
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http://www.thegateway.org/ |
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Finnish virtual library |
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http://www.jyu.fi/library/english/index.htm |
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Internet Scout Project |
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http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ |
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Variety of platforms, languages and software
components. |
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Mix of home-made, open source and proprietary
solutions (e.g. ROADS, Zebra) |
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Using different protocols |
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LDAP, Z39.50, OAI |
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and metadata schemas |
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improving and expanding the functionality |
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a base from which communities with
subject-specific focus can operate |
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additional features |
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news alerts, opt-in newsletters |
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e.g. Subject Portals Project (SPP) |
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www.portal.ac.uk/spp/ |
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Metadata sharing and re-use supporting
cross-searching, browsing |
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UK: Resource Discovery Network |
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www.rdn.ac.uk |
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Europe: Renardus |
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www.renardus.org |
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Desired outcomes |
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in general to meet the user’s needs |
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Kinds of preferences |
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look and feel |
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channels of information |
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Stating and determining preferences |
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explicit/implicit |
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Customize the interface |
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Search parameters (e.g. favourite databases) |
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Saved searches |
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Ordering
results (e.g. by geographical location) |
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News feed selection |
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Building communities |
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…….And their preferences |
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interests |
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key words for searches |
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news feeds |
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look and feel |
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delivery ….. |
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W3C working draft (Version 1.2) |
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Supports communication in a distributed
environment |
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Enables exchange of structured information based
on XML |
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User preferences could be exchanged in this way |
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Invocation of methods on remote applications |
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client sends request message to server |
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server sends response message |
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typically, server does some work |
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Get price of books from ISBN number |
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createUser |
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confirmUser |
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verifyUser |
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changePassword |
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sendPassword |
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removeAuthUser |
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createProfile |
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getProfile |
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updateProfile |
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getAttributes |
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removeProfile |
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Calls accessProfile/getAttributes SOAP server |
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$soap
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-> uri('getAttributes') |
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-> proxy('http://www.imesh.org/toolkit/work/components/personalization/t |
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est/servers/getAttributes.cgi') |
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-> get(); |
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$ref
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return $ref; |
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$id = "1018284834-10808"; |
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$result = &IMESH::Auth::confirmUser($id); |
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@got = @{$result}; |
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print "@got"; |
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"For the end user it would be a much better
world if he or she could simply have a program pass a collection of history
and opinion data to each system he or she wishes to interact with and
instantly obtain personalized behaviour and where appropriate
recommendations from it” (Cliff
Lynch, June 2001) |
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Example: P3P - a W3C recommendation (April 2002) |
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users can describe their privacy preferences |
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websites disclose how they handle information |
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make information available in machine-readable
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http://www.w3c.org/P3P/ |
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Metadata schemas for describing users |
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Integration within portal frameworks (e.g.
Jetspeed) |
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GRID developments |
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Notes