Hi
Gabe
OpenURL in bullets:
- started life as a means of transporting metadata packaged in
a URL string - hence the name (which is now something of a misnomer, but since
we have not come up with anything better, we're stuck with
it)
-
OpenURL really took off in library community to address appropriate copy problem
- looking at local holdings in preference to an authoritative (chargeable)
version of a work
- was
supposed to be fast tracked, but the standardization involved a
complete generalization of the earlier work which was specific to different
metadata formats
- the
generalization makes it transport/format independent (was always application
independent) in general terms it allows the use of defined vocabularies (from a
registry) in contextualized applications
-
since the transport/packaging is unspecified, OpenURL metadata packages can be
used in arbitrary applications and allow the mixing of packages of
metadata to build up context(s) in an information
exchange
- uses
metadata terms directly (by-value) and indirectly (by-reference) which can
be strings or URI identifiers (was initially a custom identifier syntax,
but public review led to the specification of URIs)
- the
use of custom identifiers led to various feedbacks after which a sub-committee
was agreed to establish the info: URI scheme to allow discussion of common
resources that do not already have URI identifiers
-
OpenURL has the potential to make a big impact, but is currently ghettoised
within the library communities (there is little understanding of it outside this
community (even within it there is suspicion that many will stop at the 0.1
version))
- it
is basically the work of two people (with a couple of agitators ;): Tony Hammond
(the more technical, recently ex-Elsevier and looking for a gig) and Herbert van
der Sompel (the organizer, now at Los Alamos and the driver behind the OAI
metadata harvesting protocol)
- they
are good guys and would surely like to have this work developed
further.
Perhaps I should join in this XDI initiative after
all.
Hope
this helps - please let me know if you need more
details/insight.
Regards
Eamonn
Eamonn Neylon
Manifest Solutions
Tel: +44 1869
357156
http://www.manifestsolutions.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Wachob, Gabe
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Subject: RE: [xri] Fwd: [Asis-standards]
FW: NISO Ballot-OpenURL, Z39.88-200X
Eamonn-
Do you have a summary of activity
here? We've looked at OpenURL in the distant past and I'm very curious to hear
whats going on there.
-Gabe
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FYI to our TCs concerned with distributed resource discovery. I
have omitted the PDF attachments here. Jamie
-----Original Message-----
From: NISO Headquarters [mailto:]
Sent: Monday,
January 26, 2004 4:17 PM
To:
Subject: NISO Ballot-OpenURL,
Z39.88-200X
* * * I am pleased to transmit for ballot the
final text of the OpenURL standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.88-200X. The ballot
period is: January 26, 2004-March 10, 2004.
The OpenURL standard is
a syntax to create web-transportable packages of metadata and/or
identifiers about an information object. Part 1 of the Standard introduces
the ContextObject; Part 2 lists the initial content of the Registry to
support implementation of the standard.
As you begin your review of
the document please take time to read the Foreword as important background
information is provided.
In February NISO will host a conference
call-briefing session on this standard. As soon as the date and time are
set you will receive a meeting announcement. Please send me any questions
that come up in your review of the standard; your questions and early
feedback will help frame the agenda for the briefing.
NISO
standards represent a consensus built on the dedicated efforts of skilled,
knowledgeable, and very hard working members of our community.
Reaching the ballot stage is an important benchmark in the standards
development cycle; thanks and congratulations to the members of Standards
Committee AX for their achievement:
Eric F. Van de Velde, Committee
Chairperson
California Institute of Technology
Ann
Apps
MIMAS-Manchester Computing University of Manchester
Oren
Beit-Arie
ExLibris (USA), Inc.
Karim Boughida
Getty Research
Institute
Karen Coyle
California Digital Library, University of
California (now retired)
Todd Fegan
ProQuest Information and
Learning
Tony Hammond
Elsevier Science Ltd.
Eric
Hellman
Openly Informatics, Inc.
Lou Knecht
National Library
of Medicine
Larry Lannom
Corporation for National Research
Initiatives (CNRI)
Clifford Morgan NISO SDC Liaison
John Wiley
& Sons Ltd
Mark H. Needleman
SIRSI Corporation
Eamonn
Neylon
Manifest Solutions
Philip Norman
OCLC,
Inc
Oliver Pesch
EBSCO Publishing
Harry
Samuels
Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.
Herbert Van de
Sompel
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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