Friday, December 14, 2007

Release of OAI (Open Archives Initiative) Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) User Guide and Specification Documents

The OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) User Guide and Specification documents have been released at http://openarchives.org/ore/toc. Feedback is sought on their contents, as part of our effort to transition these documents to beta and then final production release. A Google Group has been established to publicly discuss these documents: http://groups.google.com/group/oai-ore.
You will also find this URL in the header note in the OAI-ORE documents.

Upcoming events related to OAI-ORE:

1. March 3rd 2008, John Hopkins University: USA ORE Open Meeting.
Register at http://www.regonline.com/oai-ore (limited to 150).
Supportedby Microsoft.

2. April 4th 2008, University of Southampton: European ORE Open Meeting.
In conjunction with Open Repositories 2008. Registration not yet available.
Supported by JISC.

Information provided by - Carl Lagoze & Herbert Van de Sompel on behalf of the OAI-ORE effort

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