A resource map (ReM) is a concept of the
ORE Model for associating an identity with compound digital objects (aggregations of digital resources) and making assertions about their structure and semantics. Compound objects combine distributed resources, including multiple media types.
ReM Serialization
A Resource Map may be
serialized (or represented) in several different formats including
Atom feeds,
RDF/XML,
RDFa
RDFa or Resource Description Framework in Attributes is a W3C Recommendation that adds a set of attribute-level extensions to HTML, XHTML and various XML-based document types for embedding rich metadata within web documents. The Resource Descript ...
, and others.
The example below illustrates how a ReM can represent the
arXiv
arXiv (pronounced as "archive"—the X represents the Chi (letter), Greek letter chi ⟨χ⟩) is an open-access repository of electronic preprints and postprints (known as e-prints) approved for posting after moderation, but not Scholarly pee ...
e-print at https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601007 using an Atom feed. Metadata such as the
digital object identifier
A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). DOIs are an implementation of the Handle System; th ...
, title, and authors for the e-print are included first in the Atom feed. The e-print is a compound digital object composed of five aggregated resources which are listed next:
OAI-PMH metadata
Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including:
* Descriptive ...
about the e-print,
splash page PostScript versionof the e-print,
PDF version and
gzipped tar filecontaining multiple versions of the e-print.
Notes
* {{Citation
, last1 = Lagoze , first1 = Carl
, last2 = Van de Sompel , first2 = Herbert
, date=May 2007
, url = http://www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/CompoundObjects-200705.html
, title = Compound Information Objects: The OAI-ORE Perspective
See also
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Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange
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Atom Syndication Format
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Open Archives Initiative
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was an informal organization, in the circle around the colleagues Herbert Van de Sompel, Carl Lagoze, Michael L. Nelson and Simeon Warner, to develop and apply technical interoperability standards for archives t ...
External links
ORE websiteORE Google GroupORE Atom Resource Map Validator(currently broken, since June 2010).
Archival science