Project Briefing: The OpenURL Standard: A Progress Report Tony Hammond Architect, Linking & Structures Advanced Technology Group Elsevier Science Herbert Van de Sompel Digital Library Research & Prototyping Los Alamos National Laboratory Eric Van de Velde Director of Library Information Technology California Institute of Technology OpenURL is an enabling technology to provide services pertaining to resources. With OpenURLs, it becomes possible to provide links that are: Multi-valued: link a single referenced resource to many services Context-sensitive: links that adapt to the “context” in which they are traversed The extensibility mechanisms of Version 1.0 OpenURL extend the reach of OpenURL beyond the scholarly-information community to any other networked-information community. Implementing communities will have at their disposal a variety of methods to introduce new metadata formats, and new identifier name spaces, appropriate to their specific application domain. As a result, Version 1.0 OpenURL provides a rich information structure for invoking context-sensitive services. In this session, Herbert Van de Sompel and Tony Hammond will introduce the key concepts of the emerging OpenURL Standard Version 1.0. Eric Van de Velde will discuss the Committee’s plans for a trial of Version 1.0 with selected parties from the scholarly community. Web Links: OpenURL