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On Jun 3, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Tim DiLauro wrote: > Over the past eighteen months the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), > in a project called Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE), has > gathered international experts from the publishing, web, library, > and eScience community to develop standards for the identification > and description of aggregations of online information resources.... > > The table of contents page with links to the following other > documents is located at http://www.openarchives.org/ore/toc. Some of you folks who have played with it for a little bit will be able to correct me, but it seems as if OAI-ORE first postulates things called Resource Map (ReMs) which are intended to enumerate items in collections of information objects. Examples might include: all the issues from a particular journal, sets of pictures and commentary from a digitized book, narrative text and the data supporting it, etc. These ReMS are intended to be manifested as ATOM or RDF streams/files and made available in any number of ways such as OAI-PMH or links embedded in HTML pages. Once created these ReMS can be used for different purposes such as dissemination, aggregation indexing, preserving, or associating with sets of other content. If this is true, then then next step for folks like us -- hackers in libraries -- to create these ReMS and make them widely available. No? Do I see a hack against the Code4Lib Journal in our future? -- Eric Lease Morgan Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame