Research roadmap: interoperability – Review of ORE HTTP implementation paper in the context of compound ETDs

Abstract

In order to consider the interoperability of compound ETDs it is first important to understand what is meant by interoperability, and for what purpose that interoperability is required. At the heart of interoperability, though, is the need for the use of standard ways of working. This may encompass technical standards for the structuring of the compound ETD through to implementation of standard processes for creating, capturing, sharing and/or preserving the compound ETD. The proposed use of ORE is an example of this, making use of this specification to provide a standard way of describing compound ETDs, and this paper looks at some of the issues relating to this and how they might be taken forward beyond the current project.