An Update on the Open Archives Initiative
Object Re-Use and Exchange (OAI-ORE) Project
Carl Lagoze
Senior Researcher, Information Science Program
Cornell University
Michael Lloyd Nelson
Assistant Professor
Old Dominion University
Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Researcher
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) is a two-year effort funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to define and specify an interoperability fabric that promotes reuse and exchange of compound digital objects. The target application area of this fabric is scholarly communication, in which the products are increasingly data-oriented, multi-format compound resources, and where the open access movement has led to increased online availability of these products. The work of OAI-ORE is mainly undertaken by an international technical committee (TC) and a project-focused liaison group (LG). The TC met for two days in January 2007 and is scheduled to meet again in May 2007 in combination with members of the LG. This briefing will provide up-to-date information on the status of OAI-ORE work and provide opportunities for the broader community to react. It will also outline planned experimental frameworks that the OAI-ORE will lead starting in third quarter 2007.
