ORCA Registry SUM
From the ORCA wiki http://pilot.apsr.edu.au/wiki/index.php/ORCA_Registry
As part of the APSR Collections Services and Infrastructures (COSI) framework, the Online Research Collections Australia (ORCA) Registry project has been established to improve the capacity of institutional repositories, archives, and data centres to create and share collection-level information and resources.
The aims of the ORCA-Registry project are to develop:
- a discovery portal for collections information; that is, information about research collections
- a services registry that can facilitate machine-to-machine services related to managing collections within a network of federated repositories
The main priority addressed by the ORCA-Registry is to provide better discovery environment for data collections produced by the wide range of individuals and institutions involved in the Australian innovation system. This includes all Australian higher education institutions; Government-funded research organisations (such as CSIRO); and commercial and not-for-profit organisations sectors with research interests (such as the archives, museums and libraries
SUM focus
As indicated by the ORCA Overview ORCA registry will employ a range of webserves service models including
* Harvest And Discovery
* Repository Submission
* Federation
* Search
In addition, to enable service discovery on the collections themselves, the ORCA Registry will need to employ a service Ontology.
