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Subject: RE: [xri] Fwd: [Asis-standards] FW: NISO Ballot-OpenURL, Z39.88-200X
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Eamonn, Thanks for
the excellent info on OpenURL. This really helps to explain the context. Speaking
on behalf of the XDI TC (which some XRI TC members are involved in and others
are not), we would love to have you involved there. It sounds like it does
fully generalize what OpenURL has been aiming at. Best, =Drummond -----Original Message----- 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 -----Original Message----- 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 -----Original
Message-----
FYI to our TCs concerned with distributed resource discovery. I
have omitted the PDF attachments here. Jamie -----Original Message-----
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