Leonardo Candela on the DL.org Cookbook
Leonardo Candela on the DL.org Cookbook
Leonardo Candela explored the DL.org approach to interoperability with a focus on the DL.org Technology & Methodology Cookbook. The Cookbook has been designed to provide a comprehensive, pragmatic approach to overcome the lack of systematic approaches and ensure stakeholders don’t re-invent the wheel. The Cookbook is scoped to provide a portfolio of best practices and pattern solutions for common issues associated with the development of large-scale interoperable Digital Library systems.”Patterns” are understood as standard, well-recognised or proven solutions to development challenges. The talk offered a sample of current solutions and related standards across the six main concepts: content, functionality, user, policy, quality and architecture.
The talk also highlighted some of the major challenges associated with interoperability, citing experts on the topic:
- G. Anthes (May 2010), schema mapping, converting data from one format to another, is particularly hard – the “unsolved problem” of querying geographically distributed databases”.
- Our own expert, Yannis Ioannidis (professor at the University of Athens) believes interoperability is very difficult to achieve, calling it “a dirty but critcal” job, that is “complex but fun” and that must be solved at least approximately.
The talk is available on the dedicated workshop page on the DL.org website.
Tags: DL.org Cookbook, interoperability
