Hi Folks-
Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange figures to be a VERY
important standard in the digital library/archives world. From the
documentation:
"OAI-ORE defines standards for the description and exchange of
aggregations of Web resources. the OAI-ORE introduces the notion of a
Resource Map, which is a specialization of a named graph that asserts a
finite set of resources (the Aggregated Resources), their types,
intra-relationships, and relationships with resources external to this
finite set (the external resources). A Resource Map Document is a
machine-readable representation of a Resource Map. Although multiple
serializations of Resource Maps are possible, the initial serialization is
done using the Atom Syndication Format [RFC4287]."
I'll be very curious to know what the Atom-erati think about the Resource
Map Implentation in Atom:
(http://www.openarchives.org/ore/0.1/atom-implementation).
It looks to me to be a well-considered and thorough implementation of the
Atom Syndication Format in an area well-outside the blogging domain.
Perhaps this is a (welcome and anticipated) sign of the power and utility
of Atom/AtomPub?
-Peter Keane
daseproject.org
