JISC is funding two projects to do small-scale OAI-ORE tests:
TheOREM (Theses with ORE Metadata), at the University of Cambridge, aims to:
- Test the applicability of the ORE standard in a realistic scholarly setting—thesis description, submission and publication.
- Demonstrate the advantages of the ORE approach in complex object publication, by combining it with existing web-standards compliant technologies.
- Provide examples to fully exercise the ORE specifications in order to provide validation and future direction.
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, creating external references back to the original files. The description work will be automated, and the system for achieving this implemented at the University of Liverpool. The SWORD protocol will be implemented within DSpace by HP Labs along with other extensions necessary.
For further information, see the FORESITE proposal, A Preview of the TheOREM Project, and the TheOREM proposal.