DISCOVERY TO DELIVERY

• Aims and objectives
• Project methodology
• Implications
• Deliverables
• Stakeholders
• Project team

Implications

In partnering, Mimas and EDINA will provide a robust technical infrastructure to support Discovery to Delivery for UK users, and in doing so ensure the development and ongoing sustainability of UK-focussed services. The main aim of this project is to lower the barrier for discovery-to-delivery for UK users and to provide seamless access and delivery of academic content. To do so, the partners will collaborate to make explicit links between services through increased interoperability and implementation of M2M interfaces and APIs. This is directly in line with the JISC IE architecture and strategy which “seeks to offer as open and seamless access and delivery of academic content as possible” and responds to the recommendations of the JISC Services Review ( CLAX Report 2006) of the core JISC funded resource discovery services (Archives Hub, Copac, SUNCAT, Zetoc) ¹:

Issues addressed by this project from the original Project Scope include:

• To create more explicit links between the services;
• To implement more machine-to-machine interfaces.

• Issues addressed by this project from the original Project Scope include Moving from discovery to delivery (using OpenURL and similar technologies for this)
• Improving the quantity of TOC and other data currently available, by incorporating the services of other aggregators and publishers
• Making appropriate connectivity with other JISC-funded resource discovery initiatives
• Investigating possibilities for presenting different views (e.g. regional and local) from national aggregations, and how to deal with the lack of a unified interface.
• Integrating authentication services, and providing a consistent approach to the presentation to end users of licensing restrictions
• Investigating linkages with interlending functionality for material which only exists in a physical format, and with local circulation control systems
• Enabling and supporting the incorporation of web 2.0 functionality to allow users to personalise and share data,
• The need for simple and intuitive interfaces