<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="Body" style="margin-top: 6pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">(The full copy of this Press Release is at <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/documents/ore-production-press-release.pdf">http://www.openarchives.org/documents/ore-production-press-release.pdf</a> )</span></span></font></p><p class="Body" style="margin-top: 6pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Over the past two years the <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/">Open Archives Initiative</a> (OAI), in a project called <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/">Object Reuse and Exchange</a> (OAI-ORE), has gathered international experts from the publishing, web, library, repository, and eScience communities to develop standards for the identification and description of aggregations of Web resources.<span> </span>These standards provide the foundation for applications and services that can visualize, preserve, transfer, summarize, and improve access to the aggregations that people use in their daily Web interaction: including multiple page Web documents, multiple format documents in institutional repositories, scholarly data sets, and online photo and music collections.<span> </span>The OAI-ORE standards leverage the core Web architecture and concepts emerging from related efforts including the semantic web, linked data, and Atom syndication.<span> </span>As a result, they integrate both with the emerging machine-readable web, Web 2.0, and the future evolution of networked information.</span></p><p class="Body" style="margin-top: 6pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">The production versions of the OAI-ORE specifications and implementation documents are now available to the public, with a table of contents page at <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/toc">http://www.openarchives.org/ore/toc</a>.<span> </span>This public release is the culmination of several months of testing and review of initial alpha and beta releases. The participation and feedback from the wider OAI-ORE community, especially the OAI-ORE technical committee, was instrumental to the process leading up to this production release.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="margin-top: 6pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">The documents in the release describe a data model to introduce aggregations as resources with URIs on the web. They also detail the machine-readable descriptions of aggregations expressed in the popular Atom syndication format, in RDF/XML, and RDFa.<span> </span>The documents included in the release are:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body"><span style="font-size: 11pt; "><o:p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">ORE User Guide Documents</span></i></span></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/primer.html">Primer</a></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Body" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/atom.html">Resource Map Implementation in Atom</a></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Body" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/rdfxml.html">Resource Map Implementation in RDF/XML</a></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Body" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/rdfa.html">Resource Map Implementation in RDFa</a></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Body" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/http.html">HTTP Implementation</a></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Body" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/discovery.html">Resource Map Discovery</a></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Body" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">ORE Specification Documents<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="Body" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/datamodel.html">Abstract Data Model</a></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Body" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/vocabulary.html">Vocabulary</a></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Body" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/tools.html">Tools and Additional Resources</a></span></span></span></span></p><p class="Body" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><i><br></i></span></font></p><p class="Body" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Carl Lagoze - Cornell University - <a href="mailto:lagoze@cs.cornell.edu">lagoze@cs.cornell.edu</a></span></font></p><p class="Body" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Herbert Van de Sompel - Los Alamos National Laboratory - <a href="mailto:herbertv@lanl.gov">herbertv@lanl.gov</a></span></font></p></body></html>