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    Jeff Young develops Extensible Repository Resource Locators (ERRoLs) for OAI Identifiers
    OCLC Researcher Jeff Young has developed a scheme for creating "Cool" (i.e., unchanging) URLs for metadata, content, and services related to registered Open Archive Initiative (OAI) repositories.
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    December 31, 2003
    
    <P>Anyone can create or use a Cool URL to any metadata record or web resource related to supported OAI repositories.&nbsp; Similarly, any OAI repository can use the ERRoL service by registering a unique repository identifier with the OAI Registry at UIUC.</P>
<P>An ERRol resolver is a system that uses a repository’s unique identifier to create URLs that point to metadata and content stored in the repository.</P>
<P>Services that accompany ERRoLs include customizable HTML views of repositories, RSS feeds of OAI content, OAI-PMH version transformations, and OAI record unwrapping (i.e. providing "Cool" URLs to XML content in OAI repositories w/o the OAI wrappers).</P>
<P>Other services are planned such as record editing, metadata crosswalks, and content resolution as well as integration of user defined services.</P>
    <P>ERRoL project page<BR><A href="http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/oairesolver/default.htm#example1">http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/oairesolver/default.htm#example1</A></P>
<P>"Cool URIs"<BR><A href="http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html">http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html</A></P>
<P>Open Archives Initiative<BR><A href="http://www.openarchives.org">http://www.openarchives.org</A></P>
<P>Experimental OAI Registry at UIUC<BR><A href="http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/">http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/</A></P>
    
    Jeff Young
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    Bob Bolander
    bolander@oclc.org
    +1-614-761-5207
    
    
    
    Software Architect
    OCLC Research
    Communications &amp; Programs Manager
    OCLC Research