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On Mar 4, 2005, at 9:26 AM, Ben Soares wrote: > From here in UK Higher/Further Education land, you might find some of > the > work done by the IESR (Information Environment Service Registry) > relevant: > > <http://iesr.ac.uk/> Ironically, I, and a few others were visiting the IESR folks when this thread appeared. As an FYI, the folks of IESR are creating a *registry* of digital library services, collections, and "agents". This registry is a whole lot like a directory including names, addresses, access instructions, descriptions, subject control, etc describing services, collections, and people responsible for them. An important component of the registry is a machine-to-machine architecture allowing the content of registry dissemination through non-human means. A good descriptive article includes: http://epub.mimas.ac.uk/papers/appsdc2004_full.html Ockham, an NSF project lead my Jeremy Frumkin, Martin Halbert, Ed Fox, and myself, includes a component very very similar to IESR. Project Ockham is using the IESR metadata model for describing services and collections. The primary difference is an architectural difference where Project Ockham's dissemination process uses peer-to-peer. See information about the Ockham registry: http://ockham.org/registry.php -- Eric Lease Morgan Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department University Libraries of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604