standards and discoverability for library Web Services - DSLR Workshop

I was very interested to read Service Discovery and The Big Library on Daniel Chudnov's blog.  He reports on a workshop on the topic: Digital Library Service Registry (DLSR).

The site defines this as follows:

A digital library service registry allows a machine or human to discover available digital library services, locate those services, and obtain configuration information to services for the purpose of interfacing.

I hope that the many different initiatives looking a Web Services in the library space can start to converge on some common functionality and terminology.  It's great that it brought together the US NSF, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and JISC/UKOLN.  (I just wish that CISTI had been there.)

The presentations are available, of particular interest to me is

Service Registries in the E-Scholarship Context ([Carl] Lagoze) (PowerPoint)

Last year I blogged a couple of Carl's presentations from Info Grid 2005 and Euro Fedora 2005:

• September 28, 2005  Euro Fedora User Meeting 2005 - Fedora Content Models for the National Science Digital Library Data Repository (NDR)
• September 27, 2005  Info Grid 2005 - Tuesday 27th - Monday summary on evolution of libraries online
• September 26, 2005  Info Grid 2005 - Monday 26th, 2:15 - NSDL and the evolution of digital libraries

UPDATE 2006-04-04: For more background on the DSLR workshop see The Digital Librarian.