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Subject: Release of OpenURL Draft Standard for Trial Use
Date sent: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:47:03 -0700
NISO Committee AX on OpenURL standardization is seeking
participants
for a trial of the emerging OpenURL 1.0 standard. The official trial
period will begin May 1, 2003 and end November 1, 2003.
Participants are sought from these three categories of OpenURL
users:
- Data providers who are constructing OpenURLs from their
metadata -
Vendors and providers of OpenURL resolver services - Libraries
providing end-user services based on OpenURL resolution
Trial participants will be asked to select a minimum level of
conformance to the draft standard for trial use, to provide
interoperability with other participants, and to share their findings
with the NISO AX committee and others interested in OpenURL
development. More information on the trial period is available at
http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/PubComDocs/Announce/20030415-Announ
ce-Tri al.htm.
The trial period will make use of the San Antonio Profile, an OpenURL
profile developed for the scholarly information community. The draft
standard, in two parts, is available on the NISO AX website at
http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/Public_Comments.htm. With this
announcement, we are also releasing the implementation guidelines for
the San Antonio Profile. The OpenURL registry (at
http://openurl.info/registry) defines the minimum necessary
transports, identifiers, and metadata formats to implement OpenURLs of
this profile.
To become a participant, please subscribe to the OpenURL listserv (if
you are not already a member) by sending an email message to
[log in to unmask] with the message "subscribe openurl" (without
quotes). We ask each participant then to supply the following
information in a posting to that list:
name of organization:
type of organization (data provider/OpenURL resolver service/library)
contact person: contact person's mailing address, email and phone
number:
After a brief discussion period participants will be asked to estimate
what level of conformance they will endeavor to provide during the
trial period.
For Committee AX,
--Eric Van de Velde.
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University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6039 Fax: +44 (0) 0161 275 6040
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