Thursday Threads: RDF, Digital Document Tampering, and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
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Specifications for Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) published
The first production version of the Object Reuse and Exchange from the Open Archives Initiative was published today. In the words of the release announceme...
“Object Reuse and Exchange” Beta Specifications Now Available
Carl Lagoze of Cornell University and Herbert Van de Sompel of Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the release of the beta form of the ORE specification...
Would the Real “Dublin Core” Please Stand Up?
I've been following the discussion by Stu Weibel on his blog about the relationship between Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Dublin Core Abstract Mod...
Presentation Summary: “Cross-Repository Semantic Interoperability: the MIT SIMILE Project”
Richard Rodgers presented this talk based on the work of he and MacKenzie Smith in the Digital Library Research Group at MIT. The original abstract of the p...
Presentation Summary: “MPTStore: Implementing a fast, scalable, and stable RDBMS-backed triplestore for Fedora and the NSDL”
Chris Wilper gave this presentation on behalf of the work that he and Aaron Birkland did to improve the performance of the Fedora Resource Index. Present...
Representing Collections In FEDORA
One of the DRC developers had a question recently that sparked a discussion about what to do with collections of objects. In order to answer the question of...