Small-Scale OAI Object Re-Use and Exchange Experiments
These two projects will constitute small-scale experiments that have the implementation of the OAI-ORE alpha specifications at their core, and which result in constructive feedback that can be used to refine and stabilize the ORE Specifications.
The projects:
- have the implementation of the ORE Specifications at their core;
- will result in constructive feedback that can be used to refine and stabilize the ORE Specifications;
- will result in publicly demonstrable showcases that illustrate the enabling nature of ORE Specifications in the realm of scholarly communication, research and/or education;
- will illustrate the enabling nature of the ORE Specifications in a multi-disciplinary and international setting are encouraged;
- strive toward synergies with other established Web technologies;
- strive toward synergies with ongoing projects that address interoperability in the realm of scholarly communication, research and/or education;
- will work closely where possible with the activities of the Common Repositories Interfaces Group .
Two projects have been funded:
TheOREM (Theses with ORE Metadata), at the University of Cambridge, aims to:
- Test the applicability of the ORE standard in a realistic scholarly setting - thesis description, submission and publication.
- Demonstrate the advantages of the ORE approach in complex object publication, by combining it with existing web-standards compliant technologies.
- Provide examples to fully exercise the ORE specifications in order to provide validation and future direction.
Final Report now available here.
FORESITE (Functional Object Reuse and Exchange: Supporting Information Topology Experiments) will create Resource Map descriptions of JSTOR's holdings, and then ingest them into the DSpace institutional repository system via the SWORD protocol, creating external references back to the original files. The description work will be automated, and the system for achieving this implemented at the University of Liverpool. The SWORD protocol will be implemented within DSpace by HP Labs along with other extensions necessary.