| Herbert Van de Sompel Digital Library Researcher Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Carl Lagoze Senior Researcher, Information Science Program Cornell University |
| Michael Lloyd Nelson Assistant Professor Old Dominion University |
Robert Sanderson |
| Simeon Warner Research Associate Cornell University |
Pete Johnston Technical Researcher Eduserv Foundation |
Over the past two years the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), in a project called Object Reuse and Exchange (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. This presentation provides an overview of the ORE solution to handle aggregations of Web resources, and provides an insight to emerging developments based on ORE.
http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/toc
Handout (PDF)