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Forwarded on behalf of Carl Lagoze and the OAI-ORE authoring team... Begin forwarded message: > From: Carl Lagoze <[log in to unmask]> > Date: October 17, 2008 4:02:14 PM EDT > To: Tim DiLauro <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Please disseminate - Release of Version 1.0 Production OAI > Object Reuse and Exchange Specifications > > (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 (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. > > 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 > > o Primer > > o Resource Map Implementation in Atom > > o Resource Map Implementation in RDF/XML > > o Resource Map Implementation in RDFa > > o HTTP Implementation > > o Resource Map Discovery > > · ORE Specification Documents > > o Abstract Data Model > > o Vocabulary > > · Tools and Additional Resources > > > > Carl Lagoze - Cornell University - [log in to unmask] > > Herbert Van de Sompel - Los Alamos National Laboratory - [log in to unmask] >