Hi, following up on recent email about web services for Handle System ... I thought I should promote the PILIN project that has just begun in Australia. http://www.arrow.edu.au/PILIN.php PILIN is piloting a service-oriented persistent identifier infrastructure built on top of Handles. As part of the project we plan to develop web service interfaces to Handle servers, similar to those already discussed on this list. We also plan to develop “value-added” web services that use identifiers to manage Internet resources. As the project has just started, we don't have web service definitions to share with the Handle community yet: we are currently at the requirements gathering stage. Since it appears others are trying to solve similar problems, we hope to exchange insights and approaches in the months ahead (using this mailing list if appropriate). Regards, Nigel Ward Technical Advisor to PILIN Australian ADL Partnership Lab email: nward@adlaustralia.org mobile: +61 414 234 040 |