URCs - Silverlining for URNs

Dr Renato Iannella
Resource Discovery Unit
DSTC Pty Ltd
Brisbane, Australia

renato@dstc.edu.au

The DSTC

• Federal Government Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)
  • Research Data Network CRC
• Funding from Government and Industry Partners
• Operated by DSTC Pty Ltd
  • Expertise in distributed systems technologies

Resource Discovery

• Search and retrieve information in globally distributed networks
• Support for multiple standards
• Match-making service
• Open Information Locator (OIL) Project Framework

  

URN & URC Work

• URN resolution service based on existing protocols
• Dublin Core

  

URN Screen

URC Screen

URC Issues

• URCs for various resources types
• Interoperability with canonical representations
  • standards for interchange
• Syntax to support structure/groupings
• Admin metadata
  • Mandatory elements for semantics
• Simple implementations for rapid deployment

URN Issues

• Need to identify resources
  • URN
• Need to resolve metadata
  • URC

  

• Simple URN syntax
  • As simple as: www.disney.com
• PURLS

What We Get

• High quality indexing and retrieval
• Human's can make a decision
• Automatic URC checking
• Scalable Resource Discovery?
• We can implement and deploy this year!