Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange
Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources...
allowing to associate an identity with compound digital objects (aggregations of digital resources) and make assertions about their structure and semantics. Compound objects combine distributed resources together, including multiple media types.
In computer science, in the context of data storage and transmission, serialization is the process of converting a data structure or object state into a format that can be stored and "resurrected" later in the same or another computer environment...
(or represented) in several different formats including Atom feeds, RDF/XML
RDF/XML
RDF/XML is a syntax, defined by the W3C, to express an RDF graph as an XML document. According to the W3C, "RDF/XML is the normative syntax for writing RDF"....
RDFa is a W3C Recommendation that adds a set of attribute-level extensions to XHTML for embedding rich metadata within Web documents...
, and others.
The example below illustrates how a ReM can represent the arXiv
ArXiv
The arXiv |Chi]], χ) is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all...
e-print at http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601007 using an Atom feed. Metadata such as the digital object identifier
Digital object identifier
A digital object identifier is a character string used to uniquely identify an object such as an electronic document. Metadata about the object is stored in association with the DOI name and this metadata may include a location, such as a URL, where the object can be found...
, 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
The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
Parametrization of K-essence and Its Kinetic Term Hui Li Zong-Kuan Guo Yuan-Zhong Zhang
http://oreproxy.org/r?what=http://export.arxiv.org/oai2?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=astro-ph/0601007&where=http://arxiv.org/rem/astro-ph/0601007%23aggregation
rel="alternate"/> 2007-05-31T12:52:00Z Dublin Core Metadata for "Parametrization of K-essence and Its Kinetic Term"
term="info:eu-repo/semantics/DescriptiveMetadata" label="DescriptiveMetadata" />
rdf:about="http://export.arxiv.org/oai2?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=astro-ph/0601007">
2007-05-31T12:52:00Z Splash Page for "Parametrization of K-essence and Its Kinetic Term"
term="info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage" label="humanStartPage" />
The Open Archives Initiative is an attempt to build a "low-barrier interoperability framework" for archives containing digital content . It allows people to harvest metadata...
