- From: Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:08:47 +0100
- To: "Linking Open Data" <linking-open-data@simile.mit.edu>, <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hi all, the Open Archives Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org/) develops and promotes interoperability standards for digital content repositories. The Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is widely used within the scholarly communication and digital libraries communities to exchange meta-information about digital content between repositories. The Open Archives Initiative currently works on a new standard that aims at aligning content repositories closer with the general architecture of the Web Wide Web (AWWW). The new Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) standard provides for the description of aggregations of Web resources and allows generic Web clients as well as search engines to access these descriptions according to the Web architecture. The new standard relies on the RDF data model, dereferencable URIs according to the Linked Data principles, RDF/XML and ATOM as serialization formats and reuses Dublin Core vocabulary terms. Once it is deployed, it will extend the Semantic Web with meta-information about billions of digital items. The alpha versions of the specifications are found here: http://www.openarchives.org/ore/0.1/toc The Open Archives Initiative asks for comments on the specifications. As the specifications rely heavily on Semantic Web technologies and as they are likely to have a huge practical impact within the digital libraries communities, I think it would be great if people from the Semantic Web community would have a look at the specs and provide additional input to the OAI folks. There also seam to be overlappings between OAI-ORE and the current work of the W3C POWDER working group (http://www.w3.org/2007/02/powder_charter). Please send comments on the spec to the new OAI-ORE forum at Google groups: http://groups.google.com/group/oai-ore Nice to see Semantic Web technologies being adopted by another community :-) Cheers Chris -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin +49 30 838 54057 chris@bizer.de www.bizer.de
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