OAI-ORE

Open Archives Initiative - Object Reuse and Exchange

General

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OAI-ORE is a standard to describe and identify aggregations on the web. Taking a publication as an example, it mostly consists of multiple resources (publisher pdf, supplementary material, metadata etc.), therefore what we 'see' as an publication is actually the aggregation of multiple resources.

Aggregations should be modelled in respect of the core foundations of the Web

• Resource, an item of interest.
• URI, a global identifier for a Resource.
• Representation
• Link, a directed connection between two Resources.

Basic Principles

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Aggregation (A)

A non-informative resource

Resource Map (ReM)

An information resource that describes an aggregation

Advantages

General

Interoperability, modelling of relations, detection and processing of relation information

Tools

• Java Library (for constructing, parsing, manipulating and serializing OAI-ORE Resource Maps. ATOM, RDF/XML, N3, N-Triples, Turtle and RDFa)
• Foreside Explorer

Steps

The basic steps to integrate OAI-ORE to eSciDoc (regarding publication data for start) would be:

1. Create mapping from eSciDoc Publication Item to ore
2. Create mapping from ore to eSciDoc Publication Item
3. Make sure that every resource has its own URI
4. Enable fetching oai_ore over OAI-PMH
5. Implement http part
6. Enable SWORD deposit of ore data

Related Material

• Official oai-ore website
• ore 1.0 Specification
• oai-ore tutorial at OAI6 by Herbert van de Sompel

Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange

Portable Document Format

Uniform Resource Identifier

Resource Description Framework

Extensible Markup Language

Enhanced Scientific Documentation

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit