Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; Digital Collections; and Library Standards

ORE Specification and User Guide

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Title:ORE Specification and User Guide (ID: CSD5274)
Edited by:Carl J. Lagoze (Cornell University) and Herbert van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (12/10/2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources.  This document provides an introduction and lists the specifications and user guide documents that make up the OAI-ORE standards.

These documents are the result of over a year of effort by a large group of people. OAI now seeks feedback on their contents, as part of our effort to transition these documents to beta and then final production release.

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Report of the January 2007 ORE-TC Meeting

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Title:Report of the January 2007 ORE-TC Meeting (ID: CSD4800)
Author(s):Carl J. Lagoze (Cornell University) and Herbert van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Source:Open Archives Initiative
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:A detalied report of the results of the meeting of OAI-ORE Technical Committee describing features and requirements of the ORE model and its context in the Web Architecture.
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The Open Collections Program

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Title:The Open Collections Program (ID: CSD3926)
Author(s):Thomas J. Michalak (Harvard University), Christine Madsen (Harvard University), and Megan Hurst (Harvard University)
Source:D-Lib Magazine
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2005)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:The goal of the Open Collections Program (OCP) of Harvard Harvard's library and museum collections for purposes of teaching, learning, and research — both at Harvard and around the world. The OCP believes that a topic-based approach to building digital collections creates broader and deeper collections thereby increasing relevance for a broad and diverse audience (teachers, scholars, students, and the generally curious). Materials are selected from across many collections at Harvard University for their relevance to a broad topic area and assembled into a multi-faceted and coherent digital collection. While this process is more laborious than selecting materials based on physical proximity of volumes on a shelf, or pre-existing collection groupings, the resulting digital collections become more pertinent to a broad spectrum of users.
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