XML : XML 2003 Program Packed with Industry Leaders, Insights; Premier XML Industry Event Slated for Dec. 7-12 in Ph. XMLMania.com Sep 30 2003 1:49PM ET [Moreover - XML and metadata news]  6:10:02 PM   [Feedback ]  

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Internet Draft : Info Uniform Resource Identifier. The "info" URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces is a new Internet-Draft.

This document defines the "info" Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme for information assets that have identifiers in public namespaces that are not part of the URI allocation. By information asset this document intends any information construct - i.e. any abstraction or manifestation - that has identity within a public namespace.

There exist many information assets with identifiers in public namespaces that are not referenceable by URI schemes. Examples of such namespaces include Dewey Decimal Classifications [DEWEY], Library of Congress Control Numbers [LCCN], NASA Astrophysics Data System Bibcodes [BIBCODE], and Open Archives Initiative identifiers [OAI].

NISO is to be the registry. [Catalogablog]  6:08:15 PM   [Feedback ]  

Developing new protocols to support and connect digital libraries. Interview with Herbert Van de Sopel  12:45:19 PM   [Feedback ]  

Metadata : OAI : OAI. The Open Archives Initiative has released a white paper on rights management.

The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has become an important foundation for interoperability among networked information systems. It is widely used in a variety of domains including libraries, museums, government, and research.

Like any vehicle for exchanging information, the OAI-PMH exists in a context where information holders have concerns about rights to the use of their information. Although the OAI-PMH is nominally about the exchange of metadata, this does not lessen the complexities of rights-related issues.

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Metadata : OAI : OAI-rights. From the OAI-general listserv:

"The Open Archives Initiative and Project RoMEO announce the formation of OAI-rights. The goal of this effort is to investigate and develop means of expressing rights about metadata and resources in the OAI framework. The result will be an addition to the OAI implementation guidelines that specifies mechanisms for rights expressions within the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

The area of rights expressions is wide-open with many organizations proposing languages and mechanisms. Therefore, the OAI-rights effort will aim to be extensible, providing a general framework for expressing rights statements within OAI-PMH. These statements will target both the metadata itself and the resources described by that metadata. In the context of this broader framework, OAI-rights will use Creative Commons licenses as a motivating and deployable example.

A white paper describing the scope and issues in OAI-rights is available at http://www.openarchives.org/documents/OAIRightsWhitePaper.html."

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