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OpenURL Maintenance Agency Update

OpenURL Maintenance Agency Update. June 2007. June 2007 Don Hamparian, Manager WorldCat Grid Portfolio, OCLC. OpenURL – Maintenance Agency Roles and Activities. Timeline Maintenance Agency awarded to OCLC by NISO in July 2006

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OpenURL Maintenance Agency Update

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  1. OpenURL Maintenance Agency Update June 2007 June 2007 Don Hamparian, Manager WorldCat Grid Portfolio, OCLC

  2. OpenURL – Maintenance Agency Roles and Activities • Timeline • Maintenance Agency awarded to OCLC by NISO in July 2006 • OpenURL listserv transferred from CalTech to OCLC in September 2006. • Advisory Committee and Review Panel formed in November 2006. • First Advisory Committee meeting in January 2007 at ALA mid-winter. • Second Advisory Committee meeting in April 2007 (teleconference). June 2007

  3. OpenURL – Maintenance Agency Roles and Activities Review Panel Members • Ann Apps • Mark Needleman • Oliver Pesch • Ross Singer • Herbert Van de Sompel Advisory Committee Members • Ann Apps • Oren Beit-Arie • Kerry Blinco • Mike Bushman • Larry Lannom • Oliver Pesch • Ross Singer • Herbert Van de Sompel • Eric Van de Velde June 2007

  4. OpenURL – Maintenance Agency Roles and Activities • OCLC Staff • Phil Norman - Director and Contract Monitor • Don Hamparian – Product Manager (was Scott Shultz) • Kathleen Quinton – Project Manager • Jeff Young – Software Architect June 2007

  5. OpenURL – Maintenance Agency Roles and Activities Standards Maintenance • Profiles in progress • Request Transfer Message • Passing requests from discovery site to ISO 10161 – Janifer Gatenby • Reviewed by OCLC Maintenance Agency staff. • Close to submission to review panel. • Profile ready to move to ‘official’ status • Dublin Core Community Profile and metadata formats June 2007

  6. OpenURL – Maintenance Agency Roles and Activities Standards Maintenance • Profiles in progress - FRED • Australian Federated Repositories for Education – Kerry Blinco • Service Oriented toolkit to help Australian education communities develop federations • Status: in development • Review Committee has not received info yet June 2007

  7. OpenURL –Maintenance Agency Roles and Activities Education and Promotion - Completed • HTML version of Implementation Guidelines for Developers (Ann Apps – Univ of Manchester) http://epub.mimas.ac.uk/openurl/KEV_Guidelines-200706.html • Blog – Ross Singer http://openurl.code4lib.org/ • Needs some activity June 2007

  8. OpenURL – Maintenance Agency Roles and Activities Education and Promotion - Completed • Mail listservs – active • OpenURL – assumed from CalTech • Z3988 Advisory Committee • Z3988 Review Panel June 2007

  9. OpenURL – Maintenance Agency Roles and Activities Education and Promotion – In Progress • Maintenance Agency Site – A new Z39.88 Wiki site will be created to promote understanding of the OpenURL. This site will link to the existing registry site at http://openurl.info/registry. • The Advisory committee will evaluate the May 21st 2007 UKSG final report, “Link Resolvers and the Serials Supply Chain” and extend awareness of its findings. • Collaboration efforts with code4lib including linking to the code4lib OpenURL blog from the Wiki site. June 2007

  10. Questions June 2007

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