Author: T. Barton v.0.1
Title: Registering, Discovering, and Using Web Services for Scholarship
Blurb: 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.
o How should digital artifacts of scholarship be prepared to be made available, and on what platforms?
o What metadata should be recorded about them?
o How can that be globally aggregated and searched?
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?
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.