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'''Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange''' (OAI-ORE) defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of [[Web resource]]s. The OAI-ORE specification implements the '''ORE Model''' which introduces the [[Resource Map]] (ReM) that makes it possible to associate an identity with aggregations of resources and make assertions about their structure and semantics.

These aggregations (sometimes called ''[[compound digital object]]s'' or ''compound information objects'') may combine distributed resources together, and with multiple media types including text, images, data, and video. The goal of OAI-ORE is to expose the rich content in aggregations to applications that support [[authoring]], deposit, exchange, [[Information visualization|visualization]], reuse, and [[digital preservation|preservation]].

The [[Andrew W. Mellon Foundation]] funded two years of work on the OAI-ORE project in 2006-2008.<ref>[http://www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/MellonProposalwithoutbudget.pdf Andrew Mellon Foundation: Repositories Interoperability Framework: Augmenting Interoperability across Scholarly Repositories]</ref> Version 1.0 of the specification was released on 17 October 2008.<ref>"Open Archives Initiative Announces Production Release of Object Reuse and Exchange Specifications." [http://www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/ore-production-press-release.pdf OAI-ORE Production Release Press Release]. 17-Oct-2008</ref>