[Forwarding from the OAI-General list. --Peter.]
Hi all, We are very pleased to announce the availability of a beta specification detailing an approach to convey rights expressions pertaining to metadata disseminated via the OAI-PMH. This beta specification is the result of the work of the OAI-rights technical committee that started its activities in September 2003, following a joint initiative of the Open Archives Initiative and Project RoMEO. (*) The beta specification is available at: <http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-rights.htm> (*) The press-release that announced the launch of the OAI-rights activity is available at: <http://www.openarchives.org/news/oairightspress030929.html>. This press release includes the list of participants in the OAI-rights effort. We hereby solicit public feedback on the specification. We aim to release the specification by the end of 2004, and therefore request feedback by the end of November 2004. Please send your comments to the oai-implementers list <[email protected]>. Greetings! Carl Lagoze Michael Nelson Herbert Van de Sompel Simeon Warner -- Herbert Van de Sompel Digital Library Research & Prototyping Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library http://lib-www.lanl.gov/~herbertv/ tel. +1 505 667 1267
