(Forwarding on behalf of Carl Lagoze & Herbert Van de Sompel)
(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
<http://www.openarchives.org/> (OAI), in a project called Object Reuse
and Exchange <http://www.openarchives.org/ore/> (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
* Primer <http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/primer.html>
* Resource Map Implementation in Atom
<http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/atom.html>
* Resource Map Implementation in RDF/XML
<http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/rdfxml.html>
* Resource Map Implementation in RDFa
<http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/rdfa.html>
* HTTP Implementation <http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/http.html>
* Resource Map Discovery
<http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/discovery.html>
- ORE Specification Documents
* Abstract Data Model
<http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/datamodel.html>
* Vocabulary <http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/vocabulary.html>
* Tools and Additional Resources
<http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/tools.html>
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Carl Lagoze - Cornell University - [log in to unmask] Herbert Van de
Sompel - Los Alamos National Laboratory - [log in to unmask]
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