Forwarded on behalf of Carl Lagoze and the OAI-ORE authoring team...
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From: Carl Lagoze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: October 17, 2008 4:02:14 PM EDT
To: Tim DiLauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please disseminate - Release of Version 1.0 Production OAI
Object Reuse and Exchange Specifications
(The full copy of this Press Release is at http://www.openarchives.org/documents/ore-production-press-release.pdf
)
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 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Herbert Van de Sompel - Los Alamos National Laboratory - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
