From “Moby-Dick” To “Mash-Ups:” Thinking About Bibliographic Networks at ALA Annual 2010
Ron Murray and Barbara Tillett, both from the Library of Congress, are presenting their research in thinking about bibliographic information as networks of i...
Object Reuse and Exchange
Revision Proposed to ORE Atom Serialization
Last Friday, Herbert Van de Sompel posted a message to various mailing lists about a proposed revision to the serialization of OAI-ORE into Atom. The propos...
OAI-ORE Open Meeting, April 4 2008, Johns Hopkins University
Copied from the press release announcing the U.K. Public Meeting for OAI/ORE. Open Archives Initiative Announces U.K. Public Meeting on April 4, 2008 for Eu...
Draft Specifications of OAI Object Reuse and Exchange Now Available
Last night, Herbert Van de Sompel announced the availability of the draft specifications and user guide for Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE). This effort, un...
OAI-ORE Open Meeting, March 3 2008, Johns Hopkins University
Here is the press release describing the event: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Open Archives Initiative Announces Public Meeting on March 3, 2008 to Release Object...
OAI-ORE Thoughts on Compound Documents
The Technical Committee and Liaison Group of the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange effort met last week in New York City to hammer out face-to-face some of the l...
The Intersection of the Web Architecture with Scholarly Communication
Two previous posts on dltj.org have described the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) project and the theory behind what has become known as the 'Web Archite...
Working With the Web Architecture
As you may have noticed, the web has evolved a set of common principles that are a mix of ratified standards and ad hoc practices. The notion of a Web Archi...
Introducing the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange Initiative
In the past few months a new group has formed to tackle the problem of representing and exchanging complex digital objects in a web-based environment. I am ...