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> Open Archives Initiative Announces Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE)
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> Ithaca, NY and Los Alamos, NM - The Open Archives Initiative (OAI),
> with
> the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, announces
> a new
> effort as part of its mission to develop and promote interoperability
> standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of
> content.
> Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) will develop specifications that allow
> distributed repositories to exchange information about their
> constituent
> digital objects. These specifications will include approaches for
> representing digital objects and repository services that facilitate
> access and ingest of these representations. The specifications will
> enable a new generation of cross-repository services that leverage the
> intrinsic value of digital objects beyond the borders of hosting
> repositories.
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> The goals of ORE are inspired by advances in scholarly
> communication and
> the growth of scholarly material that is available in scholarly
> repositories including institutional repositories, discipline-oriented
> repositories, dataset warehouses, and online journal repositories.
> This
> growth is significant by itself. However, its real importance lies in
> the potential for these distributed repositories and their contained
> objects to act as the foundation of a new digitally-based scholarly
> communication framework. Such a framework would permit fluid reuse,
> refactoring, and aggregation of scholarly digital objects and their
> constituent parts - including text, images, data, and software. This
> framework would include new forms of citation, allow the creation of
> virtual collections of objects regardless of their location, and
> facilitate new workflows that add value to scholarly objects by
> distributed registration, certification, peer review, and preservation
> services. Although scholarly communication is the motivating
> application, we imagine that the specifications developed by ORE may
> extend to other domains.
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> ORE is funded by Mellon for two years beginning October 2006. It is
> coordinated by Carl Lagoze of Cornell University Information
> Science and
> Herbert Van de Sompel of the Los Alamos Research Library. The ORE
> two-year work plan includes:
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> * Formation of an international advisory committee, consisting of
> leaders in e-Science, institutional repositories, publishing, library,
> and educational technology communities.
> * Formation of an international working group that will meet over the
> two year period and develop the set of ORE specifications.
> * Establishment and management of an experimental deployment community
> that will exercise the developed standards in a variety of contexts.
> * Establishment of a sustainable community to support the widespread
> deployment and management of the standards fabric.
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> OAI-ORE will co-exist within the Open Archives Initiative with the
> Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), the widely deployed
> standard
> for exchange of metadata. We expect that the naturally more
> expressive
> digital object focus of OAI-ORE will complement the narrower metadata
> focus of OAI-PMH. OAI-ORE will benefit from the interoperability
> experience and depth of the international OAI community.
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> For more information contact [log in to unmask] The ORE web site is
> at http://www.openarchives.org/ore/.
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