ORE will develop specifications that allow distributed repositories to exchange information about their constituent digital objects. These specifications will include approaches for representing digital objects and repository services that facilitate access and ingest of these representations. The specifications will enable a new generation of cross-repository services that leverage the intrinsic value of digital objects beyond the borders of hosting repositories.
MyLibrary@OCKHAM is set of searchable databases (indexes) created from the content of the "hidden Web" for the purposes of facilitating teaching, learning, and research. This page describes the how's and why's of the system, and it is divided into the following parts:
"...allows groups or organizations that have a collection of knowledge or resources they want to share via the World Wide Web to put that collection online"
Note: This is a revised pre-print version of a paper forthcoming in LITA guide to e-scholarship (working title), ed. Debra Shapiro. Date of this version: February 2005.