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OpenURL


The OpenURL standard has run into a bump on the road when it was found that there was a patent pending on a resolving service. NISO has issued a statement. There is a good discussion of the issues at /usr/lib/info.




- Openurl Standard At Oclc
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced that OCLC will assume responsibilities as Maintenance Agency for The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services (ANSI/NISO Z39.88-2004) for...

- Oclc Research Releases Open Source Openurl 1.0 Software
From OCLCThe OCLC OpenURL 1.0 distributions provide OpenURL 1.0 resolution capability. The default installation echoes OpenURL requests formatted in HTML, but the service can be configured to support any context-sensitive service compliant with the OpenURL...

- Openurl Framework For Context-sensitive Services
Now approved, the ANSI/NISO Z39.88 - 2004 The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services.Abstract: The proposed OpenURL standard is syntax to create web-transportable packages of metadata and/or identifiers about an information object. Such packages...

- Niso
A while back NISO found that a patent was held on part of the OpenURL standard under development. As a result of that they have released the white paper Patents and Open Standards by Priscilla Caplan.This is not yet available as a link from their page...

- Openurl
Two releases from NISO Committee AX.Trial Use of OpenURL Version 1.0NISO Committee AX on OpenURL standardization is seeking participants for a trial of the emerging OpenURL 1.0 standard. The official trial period will begin May 1, 2003 and end November...



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