Open Archives Initiative ResourceSync Framework Specification

This specification is a beta draft released for public comment. Feedback is most welcome on the ResourceSync Google Group.

Start Here with the ResourceSync core specification.

• ResourceSync Framework Specification

Additional Specifications provide extensions to the ResourceSync core. This draft includes a specification to support archives of synchronization information. (Future revisions will include a specification to support push-based change communication.)

• ResourceSync Archives
• Relation Types used in the ResourceSync Framework

Tools and Additional Resources to support use of the ResourceSync framework.

• W3C XML Schema for validating ResourceSync extensions to the Sitemaps document formats

Further Readings provide backgrounds and current discussions of the ResourceSync specifications.

• ResourceSync Google Group
• ResourceSync Tutorial Slides
• Cottage Labs blog posts about implementing ResourceSync in DSpace, and OAI-PMH use cases
• Extending Sitemaps for ResourceSync (JCDL13 paper exploring sitemap extensions and their implications, May 2013)
• ResourceSync: Leveraging Sitemaps for Resource Synchronization (WWW 2013 developer track paper describing experiments testing ResourceSync, May 2013)
• A Technical Framework for Resource Synchronization (D-Lib article describing technical foundations, January/February 2013)
• A Perspective on Resource Synchronization (D-Lib article describing the resource synchronization problem, September/October 2012)

This version:

http://www.openarchives.org/rs/0.9.1/toc

Latest version:

http://www.openarchives.org/rs/toc

Previous version:

http://www.openarchives.org/rs/0.9/