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> 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]
>