OpenURL syntax description: version OpenURL/1.0f, 2000-05-16

In order to enable the delivery of context-sensitive services or -- initially bibliographic -- metadata, information providers are invited to add an OpenURL to the metadata, when it is being displayed as a result of a search/browse in their information systems. The OpenURL is designed to enable the transfer of the metadata from the information service to a service component that can provide context-sensitive services for the transferred metadata

Linking to the Appropriate Copy, Report of a DOI-Based Prototype

There has been an explosive growth in the number of scholarly journals available in electronic form over the Internet. As e-journal systems move past the pains of initial implementation, designers have begun to explore the power of the new environment and to add functionality impossible in the world of paper-based journals. Probably the single most important such development has been reference linking, the ability to link automatically from the references in one paper to the referred-to articles

Generalizzare lo schema OpenURL al di là delle citazioni bibliografiche ai lavori accademici: il modello Bison-Futé [Traduzione italiana a cura di Cinzia Bucchioni]

Italian translation by Cinzia Bucchioni of the article "Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework" by Herbert Van de Sompel and Oren Beit-Arie Published in : : D-Lib Magazine - July/August 2001 - Volume 7 Number 7/8 - ISSN 1082-9873 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july01/vandesompel/07vandesompel.htm

Linking aperto nell'ambiente informativo accademico usando la OpenURL [Traduzione italiana a cura di Cinzia Bucchioni]

Italian translation by Cinzia Bucchioni of the article "Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework" by Herbert Van de Sompel and Oren Beit-Arie Published in : D-Lib Magazine, March 2001,Volume 7 Number 3, ISSN 1082-9873 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/vandesompel/03vandesompel.htm

Generalizing the OpenURL Framework beyond References to Scholarly Works, The Bison-Futé Model

This paper introduces the Bison-Futé model, a conceptual generalization of the OpenURL framework for open and context-sensitive reference linking in the web-based scholarly information environment. The Bison-Futé model is an abstract framework that identifies and defines components that are required to enable open and context-sensitive linking on the web in general. It is derived from experience gathered from the deployment of the OpenURL framework over the course of the past year. It is a generalization of the current OpenURL framework in several aspects. It aims to extend the scope of open and context-sensitive linking beyond web-based scholarly information. In addition, it offers a generalization of the manner in which referenced items -- as well as the context in which these items are referenced -- can be described for the specific purpose of open and context-sensitive linking. The Bison-Futé model is not suggested as a replacement of the OpenURL framework. On the contrary: it confirms the conceptual foundations of the OpenURL framework and, at the same time, it suggests directions and guidelines as to how the current OpenURL specifications could be extended to become applicable beyond the scholarly information environmen

Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework

Abstract This paper provides insights into the concepts underlying the OpenURL framework for open reference linking in the web-based scholarly information environment. The discussion starts by briefly reiterating the problems with reference linking that were initially described and later addressed as part of the SFX research. Some notions crucial to the understanding of the issues at stake are briefly described: extended service-links, closed and non-context-sensitive linking, open and context-sensitive linking. Then, the paper details the OpenURL framework and reports on its current deployment in the scholarly information environment. As an illustration of the penetration of the OpenURL framework, special attention is accorded to a prototype in which the OpenURL framework is integrated with the DOI/CrossRef linking solution