[Ore-ac] Update from OAI-ORE

[John S. Erickson]

Thanks, Herbert & Carl! Looking forward to getting those drafts real soon...

Herbert wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> We would like to provide you with an update regarding the OAI-ORE effort.
> 
> Since the last successful in-person meeting of the TC at the Google 
> offices in NYC, a team has been working in a focused manner to compile a 
> set of proposed draft OAI-ORE specifications. The so-called OAI-ORE 
> Acceleration Effort was supported by the ORE Mellon grant and by 
> additional funding from Microsoft. The people directly involved in this 
> effort were: Julie Allinson, Chris Bizer, Carl Lagoze, Michael Nelson, 
> Rob Sanderson, Herbert Van de Sompel, and Simeon Warner.  The addition 
> of Chris Bizer to our team provided important input from the semantic 
> web community.
> 
> We plan to share the set of drafts listed below by September 30th with 
> TC, LG, AG and our sponsors. This private release of the drafts will 
> initiate the review process by TC, LG, and AG, which we would like to 
> conclude by the end of 2007. At that time, we would like to be able to 
> publicly release the resulting documents as alpha OAI-ORE 
> specifications. These alpha specifications could be used for community 
> experimentation and feedback to support the release of version 1 OAI-ORE 
> specifications by September 2008. We are currently in discussions with 
> various parties to plan how to best launch and support such 
> community-based experimentation.
> 
> We would like to ask you to allocate some time in the course of 
> October-November 2007 to review the drafts specifications, and to engage 
> in constructive discussions aimed at meeting a public release date of 
> the end of 2007.  Your input and feedback is essential to the success of 
> this effort.  We will open up a blog for these discussions.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Carl & Herbert
> 
> =
> 
> Draft OAI-ORE documents in preparation:
> 
> (1) The OAI-ORE Data Model: Specifies the proposed ORE model to identify 
> and describe aggregations of resources for the purpose of:
> 
> - Facilitating the re-use of an aggregation and/or its aggregated 
> resources;
> - Expressing properties and relationships pertaining to aggregated 
> resources;
> - Referencing resources as they exist in the context of an aggregation.
> 
> (2) The OAI-ORE Vocabulary: Specifies the ORE terminology, introducing 
> notions such as Resource Map, Aggregated Resource, Manifest, and 
> Relationships. Also recommends existing vocabularies that can be used 
> for the purpose of expressing properties and relationships pertaining to 
> aggregated resources.
> 
> (3) The ORE Profile of the ATOM Syndication Format: Specifies a document 
> format to describe resource aggregations based on, and fully compliant 
> with the Atom syndication format [RFC4287]. It specifies a Resource Map 
> Document that is an Atom Feed Document with some ORE-specific ingredients.
> 
> (4) OAI-ORE Implementation Guidelines: Provides concrete help for the 
> deployment of OAI-ORE functionality, including aspects such as discovery 
> of Resource Maps, choice of values for atom:id elements, examples of 
> Resource Map Documents, etc.
>