[Asis-l] FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] OAI Object Reuse and Exchange Beta Specifications

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded.  Apologies for duplication.  Dick Hill]


From: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition [mailto:CNI-ANNOUNCE at cni.org]
On Behalf Of Clifford Lynch
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:30 AM
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] OAI Object Reuse and Exchange Beta Specifications

I'm very pleased to be able to share news of this milestone in the Open
Archives Object Reuse and Exchange program with CNI-announce readers.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Over the past eighteen months the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), in a
project called Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE), has gathered
international experts from the publishing, web, library, and eScience
community to develop standards for the identification and description of
aggregations of online information resources.  These aggregations, sometimes
called compound digital objects, may combine distributed resources with
multiple media types including text, images, data, and video.  The goal of
these standards is to expose the rich content in these aggregations to
applications that support authoring, deposit, exchange, visualization,
reuse, and preservation.  Although a motivating use case for the work is the
changing nature of scholarship and scholarly communication, and the need for
cyberinfrastructure to support that scholarship, the intent of the effort is
to develop standards that generalize across all web-based information
including the increasing popular social networks of "web 2.0".

The beta version of the OAI-ORE specifications and implementation
documents are released to the public on June 2, 2008.  These documents
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 table of contents page with links to the following other documents is
located at http://www.openarchives.org/ore/toc.

The full press release for this beta release is located
at http://www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/oreBetaPressRelease.pdf. 

Carl Lagoze - Cornell University
Herbert Van de Sompel - Los Alamos National Laboratory