Open Archives Initiative - ORE

Demonstrations

Named Graph Prototype - A movie illustrating prototype work on ORE concepts demonstrating the use of named graphs.
Pathways Overlay Journal Prototype - A video showing a prototype of an overlay journal creation process prepared for the 2006 Mellon-sponsored interoperability meeting

Meeting Notes

Report of the May 2007 ORE-TC Meeting - The focus of the meeting was building consensus on named graphs as a underlying model for expressing compound object information.
Report of the January 2007 ORE-TC Meeting - A detailed 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.
Augmenting interoperability across scholarly repositories - An April 20-21 2006 meeting sponsored by Microsoft, CNI, DLF, and JISC that laid he foundation for OAI-ORE

Presentations

ORE Presentation at JCDL 2007 - Presented at an OAI-ORE Panel featuring Clifford Lynch, Neil Jacobs, Herbert Van de Sompel, and Carl Lagoze
ORE Presentation at OAI5 - Slides and a video of Herbert Van de Sompel's presentation about current progress of OAI-ORE at the CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5) are available.
Open Repositories 2007 - A presentation describing OAI-ORE and progress based on the January 2007 ORE Technical Committee Meeting.
CNI 2006 ORE Project Briefing - A presentation describing motivations, requirements, and preliminary thinking on the OAI-ORE project.

Press Releases

ORE Announcement - Announces the Mellon grant and summarizes the two-year work plan

Proposals

ORE Acceleration Proposal to Microsoft - A funding proposal to support expedited work on the alpha ORE specifications during August/September 2007 to support prototyping in the eChemistry community.
Proposal for funding to the Mellon Foundation - Details the plan for work developing OAI-ORE specifications over the two-year period beginning October 2006

Publications

An Interoperable Fabric for Scholarly Value Chains - An article in D-lib describing an interoperability experiment that led to work on OAI-ORE
Rethinking Scholarly Communication: Building the System that Scholars Deserve - An opinion article in D-lib that describes a model of a scholarly communication system that interoperable repositories could provide

White Papers

Compound Information Objects white paper - A white paper describing the web-centric OAI-ORE perspective on compound information objects is now available. This document is a work in progress and was used as a discussion document in preparation of the May 2007 meeting of the OAI-ORE Technical Committee.