JISC funds 2 OAI-ORE experiments

JISC has announced funding for two projects to test the Open Archives Initiative Object Re-Use and Exchange specification. The end date for funding is July 31, 2008. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)

These two projects will constitute small-scale experiments that have the implementation of the OAI-ORE alpha specifications at their core, and which result in constructive feedback that can be used to refine and stabilize the ORE Specifications. ...

Two projects have been funded:

TheOREM (Theses with ORE Metadata), at the University of Cambridge ...

FORESITE (Functional Object Reuse and Exchange: Supporting Information Topology Experiments) will create Resource Map descriptions of JSTOR's holdings, and then ingest them into the DSpace institutional repository system via the SWORD protocol ...