Dear cni-announce subscribers:

Note that we will also have an update on the OAI-ORE project at the CNI Fall Task Force meeting in Washington. -Joan Lippincott

Apologies for cross-posting

A meeting will be held on March 3, 2008 at Johns Hopkins University to roll-out the first beta release of the OAI-ORE specifications.  These specifications describe a data model to identify and describe aggregations of web resources, and the encoding of the data model in the XML-based Atom syndication format.

Additional details are available at:

• The full press release for this event:

http://www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/ore-hopkins-press-release.pdf

• The registration site for the meeting:

Note that registration is required and space is limited.

Carl Lagoze and Herbert Van de Sompel