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Using the OpenURL Framework to Locate Bibliographic Resources

Ann Apps and Ross MacIntyre

Paper presented by Ann Apps at:
The 2003 Dublin Core Conference (DC2003 - Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice - Metadata Research and Application), Seattle, Washington, USA, 28 September - 2 October 2003.

Published in the Conference Proceedings. ISBN 0-9745303-0-1. pp 143-152.

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Abstract
OpenURLs are already in use in digital library information services providing links between resources that are appropriate to the context of the end-user. The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, a systematic generalisation of the existing de facto standard OpenURL, is currently an ANSI/NISO `draft standard for trial use'. The zetoc current awareness service has implemented OpenURL links enabling its users to access services pertinent to discovered article records, including their full text. The `ContextObject' of the OpenURL Framework supplies a standard way of encoding the bibliographic citation information for a scholarly resource within a Dublin Core metadata record.
Keywords: OpenURL, Dublin Core metadata, bibliographic citation, context-sensitive links, current awareness service.

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5 November 2003

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