After an extensive process of vetting and
experimentation, the first production release of
the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and
Exchange Specifications are now available. The
press release from Carl Lagoze and Herbert Van de
Sompel reproduced below gives the details; the
materials are all at www.openarchives.org. I
think that these are going to be an important
tool for a number of different application areas.
We'll be having coverage of this work at the fall
CNI member meeting.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
Over the past two years
the Open Archives
Initiative (OAI), in a project
called Object
Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE), has gathered
international experts from the publishing, web,
library, repository, and eScience communities to
develop standards for the identification and
description of aggregations of Web
resources. These standards provide the
foundation for applications and services that can
visualize, preserve, transfer, summarize, and
improve access to the aggregations that people
use in their daily Web interaction: including
multiple page Web documents, multiple format
documents in institutional repositories,
scholarly data sets, and online photo and music
collections. The OAI-ORE standards leverage the
core Web architecture and concepts emerging from
related efforts including the semantic web,
linked data, and Atom syndication. As a result,
they integrate both with the emerging
machine-readable web, Web 2.0, and the future
evolution of networked information.
The production versions of the OAI-ORE
specifications and implementation documents are
now available to the public, with a table of
contents page
at http://www.openarchives.org/ore/toc. This
public release is the culmination of several
months of testing and review of initial alpha and
beta releases. The participation and feedback
from the wider OAI-ORE community, especially the
OAI-ORE technical committee, was instrumental to
the process leading up to this production release.
The documents in the release describe a data
model to introduce aggregations as resources with
URIs on the web. They also detail the
machine-readable descriptions of aggregations
expressed in the popular Atom syndication format,
in RDF/XML, and RDFa. The documents included in
the release are:
· ORE User Guide Documents
o Primer
o Resource
Map Implementation in Atom
o Resource
Map Implementation in RDF/XML
o Resource
Map Implementation in RDFa
o HTTP Implementation
o Resource Map Discovery
· ORE Specification Documents
o Abstract Data Model
o Vocabulary
· Tools
and Additional Resources
Carl Lagoze - Cornell University
- lagoze@cs.cornell.edulagoze@cs.cornell.edu
Herbert Van de Sompel - Los Alamos National
Laboratory
- herbertv@lanl.govherbertv@lanl.gov/mailto:herbertv@lanl.gov/mailto:lagoze@cs.cornell.edu
