MEETING OF THE OPEN ARCHIVES INITIATIVE, WASHINGTON DC JANUARY 23, 2001 =======================================================================
The Open Archives Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org) (OAI) develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. An Open Meeting to make public the release of the OAI specifications for metadata harvesting will be held on January 23rd 2001 at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington DC. The goal of the specifications is to provide an easy way for data providers to expose their metadata and for service providers to access that metadata and use it as input to value-added services. Complete information on the meeting and a registration form (registration is required) is available at http://www.openarchives.org/DC2001/OpenMeeting.html. ------------------------------------------------------ UPS mail list Mail submissions to u...@vole.lanl.gov To subscribe or unsubscribe visit http://vole.lanl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ups