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Object Re-Use and ExchangeMellon Retreat, Nassau Inn, Princeton, NJ, March 29 2007

Herbert Van de Sompel, Carl Lagoze

The OAI Object Re-Use & Exchange (ORE) Initiative

Herbert Van de Sompel (1) & Carl Lagoze (2)

(1) Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory(2) Information Science, Cornell University

OAI-ORE is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundationwith additional support of the National Science Foundation



OAI Object Re-Use and Exchange

• OAI-ORE is a new effort conducted under the umbrella of the OAI

• International effort; October 2006 - September 2008:o Coordinators: Carl Lagoze & Herbert Van de Sompelo ORE Technical Committee: 13 international memberso ORE Liaison Group: 8 international memberso ORE Advisory Committee: 16 international memberso Representing: scholarly publishers and aggregators,

eScience, eHumanities, education, search engines, various repository systems, digital library efforts, related standardization efforts, etc.

• See http://www.openarchives.org/ore/



Compound Information Objects

Units of scholarly communication are compound information objects:

Identified, bounded aggregations of related information units that form a logical whole.

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id

compound information

objects



Examples of Compound Information Objects

• Scholarly publication with an article and supporting information including dataset, video, etc.

• Digitized book with multiple chapters, each chapter containing multiple scanned pages.

• Archaeological assemblies of images, maps, charts, and find lists.

• An ARTstor image object that is the aggregation of various renderings of the same source image.

• …



Compound Information Objects

Units of scholarly communication are compound information objects:

Components of a compound object may vary according to:

• Semantic type:o Texto Still image o Moving imageo Datasetso Softwareo Bibliographic and other types of metadatao …

• Media type:o PDFo HTMLo JPEGo Mp3o …



Access Repositories

Compound objects are made accessible by a variety of scholarly repositories:

• Institutional repositories• Discipline-oriented repositories • Publisher repositories• Dataset repositories• Cultural heritage repositories • Learning object repositories• Digitized book and manuscript collections• Research-group and managed personal

(ePortfolio) repositories• …



Access Repositories

Repositories expose compound objects in manners specific to the repository architecture:

• Interfaces (API & user-oriented)• Identification schemes• Representation of compound objects• Mapping of compound objects and

components to the Web



Systems that manage digital

objects• Institutional repositories• Research-group and managed

personal (ePortfolio) repositories• Discipline-oriented repositories • Publisher repositories• Dataset repositories• Cultural heritage repositories • Learning object repositories• Digitized book and manuscript

collections

Systems that leverage managed

digital objects

• All repositories from left column

• Search engines• Authoring tools• Citation management tools• Collaborative environments• Social network applications• Graph analysis tools• Preservation services• Workflow tools• …

OAI-ORE Standards Protocols



Working with the Web architecture

• Whatever we do it must be congruent with the Web architecture

o Use existing capabilities where they are appropriateo Cleanly layer capabilities meeting the needs of our

problem space



Observation 1Components of compound object must be mapped to resources in

order to be reference-able



Observation 2In the mapping from components to resources, the boundary of the

originating compound object is lost



Observation 3Map the compound object to a resource with a representation that

formally expresses the boundaries of the object

Machine readable



Observation 4Allow for discovery of that representation (and hence of the

compound object) by Web applications

HTTP LINK HEADER



Observation 4 bis Allow for discovery of that representation (and hence of the

compound object) by Web applications



Observation 5This approach reveals compound objects in the Web graph




• A core goal of OAI-ORE is to develop standardized, interoperable, and machine-readable mechanisms by which individual repositories can map and thereby expose compound objects to the Web.

• These mechanisms will allow Web applications to reconstruct:

o The boundaries of compound objectso The relationships among their internal componentso Their relationship to other resources on the Web




• Develop, identify, and profile extensible standards and protocols to allow repositories, agents, and services to interoperate in the context of use and reuse of compound digital objects beyond the boundaries of the holding repositories.

• Aim for more effective and consistent ways:o to facilitate discovery of these objects, o to reference (link to) these objects (and parts thereof),o to obtain a variety of disseminations of these objects, o to aggregate and disaggregate these objects,o Enable processing by automated agents



Questions



Compound object from aDORe repository



DC component of compound object



MPEG-21 DIDL component of compound object



Zotero discovers a pointer to a Canonical Representation of the compound object



Zotero parses the Canonical Representation and lets the user select components



Zotero now holds a derived compound object with multiple components



QuickTime™ and aMicrosoft Video 1 decompressorare needed to see this picture.

… A DIDL component



… a BIOSIS XML component



… a DC component

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