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Those of you looking for lessons learned from the creation of resource discovery services across multiple digital repository collections may well find this recent report from the JISC-funded PERX report of interest. David From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of MacLeod, Roderick PerX Shared Services Report Now Available One of the aims of the PerX project <http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/> (one of the Digital Repositories Programme projects) is to investigate the practical management and maintenance issues associated with enabling resource discovery across multiple digital repository collections. Associated with this is an objective to analyse the suitability of JISC infrastructural shared services for use within the PerX Pilot cross-search service <http://www.engineering.ac.uk/>, and experiment with the incorporation of sufficiently mature services. A Shared Services report is now available from PerX which provides overviews, usage scenarios and implementation reports (where available) for infrastructural shared services identifed as being of relevance to the project. These include Service Registries, Identifier and Resolver Services, Terminology Services, and Metadata Schema Registries. The report is available at: <http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/sharedservices.htm>. More deliverables from PerX are available from: <http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/deliverables.htm>. Please note that the PerX Pilot servers are being upgraded at the moment. This has no effect on the above documents, but searches of the actual Pilot may not return accurate results for a few days. Roddy MacLeod MA, DipLib, MCILIP Senior Subject Librarian Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS Tel (0131) 451 3576 Fax: (0131) 451 3164 [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/roddy.html