With apologies to those of you who have seen this elsewhere, here is news of some significant new work with relevance to complex/compound objects in repositories. If you would like a more gentle introduction than diving straight into the spec, an article and screencast demo were published a couple of months back when this work was being developed: Article: http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/articles/2007/08/interoperability-for-the-discovery-use-and-re-use-of-units-of-scholarly-communication/ Screencast directly: http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/multimedia/11/ORE_prototype-demo/ Regards, Phil. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [OAI-implementers] release of alpha OAI-ORE documents Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:52:15 -0700 From: Herbert Van de Sompel <[log in to unmask]> To: OAI-implementers <[log in to unmask]> Dear all, We are pleased to announce the public alpha release of the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) User Guide and Specification documents. These are now available at http://openarchives.org/ore/toc. These documents are the result of over a year of effort by a large group of people. We now seek your feedback on their contents, as part of our effort to transition these documents to beta and then final production release. We have set up a Google Group to discuss these documents. We welcome your comments there, and request your help in keeping these comments and the resulting discussion productive and focused. The URL of the Google Group is http://groups.google.com/group/oai-ore. You will also find this URL in the header note in the OAI-ORE documents. You may also send mail to [log in to unmask], but we request you use this only for private comments to the editors. Our goal is to keep this discussion public. Finally, we'd like to remind you of two upcoming events related to OAI-ORE: 1. March 3rd 2008, John Hopkins University: USA ORE Open Meeting. Register at http://www.regonline.com/oai-ore (limited to 150). Supported by Microsoft. 2. April 4th 2008, University of Southampton: European ORE Open Meeting. In conjunction with Open Repositories 2008. Registration not yet available. Supported by JISC. Greetings Carl Lagoze & Herbert Van de Sompel on behalf of the OAI-ORE effort -- Herbert Van de Sompel Digital Library Research & Prototyping Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/ tel. +1 505 667 1267 _______________________________________________ OAI-implementers mailing list List information, archives, preferences and to unsubscribe: http://www.openarchives.org/mailman/listinfo/oai-implementers