AHDS: “Challenges to be Confronted”
User Registration, Authentication, and Resource Ordering
- AHDS benefits from its circumscribed service environment.
- Problems will arise as it integrates third-party systems into its Gateway where such services use independent registration, authentication, and resource ordering services.
- A more automated approach will be required to support scholarly and heritage users who wish to locate, scrutinise, and acquire access to information objects of interest irrespective of their location, format, and management.
Users’ Resource Discovery Preferences
- AHDS has so far operated with numerous assumptions about users’ resource discovery preferences in a distributed network environment. Those assumptions have shaped the development of the AHDS Gateway and associated systems.
- How users actually exploit the Gateway, particularly in relation to their use of underlying Service Provider catalogues, will provide useful feedback for the systems’ further development, but also for applied research into resource discovery systems more generally.