LORE: A Compound Object Authoring and Publishing Tool for the Australian Literature Studies Community

Abstract

This paper presents LORE (Literature Object Re-use and Exchange), a light-weight tool which is designed to allow literature scholars and teachers to author, edit and publish compound information objects encapsulating related digital resources and bibliographic records. LORE enables users to easily create OAI-ORE-compliant compound objects, which build on the IFLA FRBR model, and also enables them to describe and publish them to an RDF repository as Named Graphs. Using the tool, literary scholars can create typed relationships between individual atomic objects using terms from a bibliographic ontology and can attach metadata to the compound object. This paper describes the implementation and user interface of the LORE tool, as developed within the context of an ongoing case study being conducted in collaboration with AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource, which focuses on compound objects for teaching and research within the Australian literature studies community.

Comparing METS and OAI-ORE for Encapsulating Scientific Data Products: A Protein Crystallography Case Study

“…Figure 1 shows the components that will be incorporated within the OAI-ORE compound objects being generated by the UQ Structural Genomics group using the services that we have developed. The work described here also builds on similar efforts undertaken by the UQ eResearch Lab in evaluating the application of OAI-ORE for authoring compound scientific objects in the disciplines of Australian Literature [16] and nano-materials optimization [17].…”

Modeling heterogeneous data resources for social-ecological research

“…OAI-ORE has been implemented in varied contexts such as Australian literature [6] and life cycle of sensor applications [13] to describe compound objects. The Research Object (RO) proposed in [2] builds on the idea of the aggregation in OAI-ORE to further define the relationships between resources in a scientific investigation; such as data, model, and people.…”

A Collaborative Scholarly Annotation System for Dynamic Web Documents – A Literary Case Study

“…AustLit record pages are rendered from the AustLit database by custom Java servlets using XSLT stylesheets which we extended to insert RDFa into the HTML. The RDFa uses classes and properties from the AustLit ontology that we developed for use with LORE [12] to represent the data entities from which the pages were generated. Figure 3 shows an AustLit work record page alongside a subset of the RDFa that encodes information about the FRBR entities represented on the page.…”

“…The Aus-e-Lit annotation client is implemented as an open source add-on to the LORE Firefox extension [12]. The User Interface elements are implemented using HTML and AJAX using the cross-platform ExtJS library, so that it will be possible to port the client to alternative browser extension frameworks in the future.…”

“…Publishing a scholarly digital edition using LORE LORE [12] allows metadata and relationships to be specified at the resource level, which are then published as OAI-ORE-compliant RDF. Annotations extend the capabilities of LORE so that parts of resources (such as image regions, or sections of a text) can be discussed, and annotations can be attached to this context.…”