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Author: T. Barton v.0.1
Title: Registering, Discovering, and Using Web Distributed Services for Scholarshipin Academia
Blurb:
The deployment of service-oriented architectures in support of scholarship in higher education has a number of distinctive challenges. These include:
- the distributed nature of IT across major campuses, and the need to integrate services from many providers and academic and administrative processes
- the strong inter-institutional nature of many scholarly activities, with the requisite need to both provision and integrate for a federated environment
- the particular nature of major international team science projects, with their own service architectures that increasingly want to use campus services.
Taken together, such issues suggest loosely coupled approaches, combined with attention to the shared mechanisms such as messaging, security models, schema and data models, governance and management, etc.
This CAMP is intended to explore the sets of issues at major institutions in deploying service oriented approaches, both for web services and other SOA. Topics such as shared academic and administrative use, external services, federated identity management, and support of researcher needs affect how we in higher education provision services. Workflow, for example, needs integration with scientific, scholarly, instructional and administrative processes; such breadth of needs requires particular attention when services are spread across the enterprise and to inter-realm providersBlurb: Although the conclusions of scholarly projects are facilely published both off- and on-line, the substantial datasets, computer processing methods, and other digital artifacts they produce often remain inaccessible to other scholars for lack of a solution to the logistical problems of sustaining them, and, for those that can be sustained, of discovering them and the technical arrangements to use them. The objective of this Advanced CAMP is to discover the leading functional and technical requirements for packaging, registering, and discovering scholarly services and the means of integrating them into new scholarly projects.
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o What operational and security environments should both protect them and enable their appropriate use?
o What tools are needed to integrate them into new scholarly workflows?o How should their semantic interrelationships be codified and maintained?
o Criteria for refactoring services as new atomic particles appear
o Messaging approaches
o Governance and management of services
o Integration of campus and external services, including virtual organization infrastructures such as OGSA and Bamboo shoots
o How do proprietary solutions address these issues and what problems do they encounter in the academic setting? How do open-source enterprise service offerings such as Mule address such issues?
We'll bring together experts in allied technologies, technical leaders of projects that have begun to break similar ground, and actual
scholars (!) to produce an early harvest of requirements and worthy next steps to advance the state of infrastructure and standards to support scholarship.