OAI-ORE Alpha Specifications Updated

As a result of discussions coming from the OAI-ORE open meeting in Baltimore in the first week of March, the document editors released a new version of the ORE alpha specifications (labeled "0.3") earlier this month to coincide with the open meeting at Southampton, UK. In a message to the technical committee, Herbert Van de Sompel summarized the changes as:

• Data Model: changes in the relationship between Resource Map and Aggregation; introduction of a solution regarding the reference in context; revised approach regarding nesting aggregations.
• Atom serialization: Significant revision of the mapping from the ORE Model to Atom.
• Introduction of an ORE Primer (formerly called the data model overview)
• Introduction of a document describing implementation issues regarding HTTP URIs for Aggregations and Resource Maps.
• RDF serialization document: This document was first made available in alpha 0.2. It deals with RDF/XML but also RDFa that can, for example be used, in splash pages.

Comments are still welcome, and the OAI-ORE discussion list has been quite active the past few weeks. The document editors are aiming for a beta release of the specification in mid-May.