2013-03-27: ResourceSync Meeting and JCDL 2013 PC Meeting

On March 21 & 22 members of the ResourceSync technical group met in Ann Arbor Michigan to work the 0.5 version of the ResourceSync specification . In case you're not familiar, ResourceSync is a framework, intended to replace OAI-PMH , for specifying how a destination ("harvester" in PMH terms) can synchronize the web resources of a source ("repository" in PMH terms). The source publishes a list of resources that it makes available via ResourceSync (which may be a subset of valid resources at the web site) using Sitemaps , with the idea that if you're already using Sitemaps then you are already minimally compliant, and the more advanced features of ResourceSync also use the Sitemap syntax for consistency. Although the syntactic details are in flux, Herbert's presentation at the September 2012 NISO Forum is a good introduction the framework, as are the two recent D-Lib Magazine articles ( Sept/Oct 2012 and Jan/Feb 2013 ). Some important