1,924 collections added to the Information Environment Service Registry

The Information Environment Service Registry is now richer by nearly 2,000 resources. These resources are collections of content that are hosted in the UK, relevant to UK higher education and free at point of use. The information about these collections was collected by the recent Digital Repositories and Archives Inventory.

The inventory completed in October and discovered 1,924 collections. Phase 2 of the inventory is due to complete in June 2008 and is expected to push the total number of collections up to approximately 3,000. The collections gathered from phase 2 will be added to the Information Environment Service Registry sometime after June 2008.

Users will benefit from this content being added to the Information Environment Service Registry as the resources can be easily discovered by portals and other applications. Similarly the collection owners will benefit as this represents another mechanism for discovering their resource.

Posted by: Andy McGregor

April 3, 2008 | Filed Under resource discovery, shared services, repositories 

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2 Responses to “1,924 collections added to the Information Environment Service Registry”

  1. Owen Stephens on April 3rd, 2008 3:01 pm

    Are there any examples of people using IESR in the wild, or any projects to develop use of IESR services?

  2. Andy McGregor on April 8th, 2008 9:53 am

    The IE demonstrator project is just starting and will be looking at developing demonstrators using various components of the Information Environment. We have also funded a post at UKOLN to work with the Start Up and Enhancement repositories at integrating with various projects in the Shared Infrastructure Services strand of the Repositories and Preservation Programme (this includes IESR). I am not aware of any projects in the wild.

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