Apologies for cross-posting A meeting will be held on April 4, 2008 at the University of Southampton, in conjunction with Open Repositories 2008, to roll-out the beta release of the OAI-ORE specifications. This meeting is the European follow-on to a meeting that will be held in the USA on March 3, 2008 at Johns Hopkins University.
The OAI-ORE specifications describe a data model to identify and describe aggregations of web resources, and they introduce machine-readable formats to describe these aggregations based on ATOM and RDF/XML. The current, alpha version of the OAI-ORE specifications is at http://www.openarchives.org/ore/0.1/ . Additional details for the OAI-ORE European Open Meeting are available at: - The full press release for this event: http://www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/EUKickoffPressrelease.pdf - The registration site for the event: http://regonline.com/eu-oai-ore Note that registration is required and space is limited. Carl Lagoze and Herbert Van de Sompel