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General-Purpose Technologies Useful for Digital Repositories

associated with, or it could result in materials being used in more unsavory
contexts. Repositories that support open sharing of data should consider
how important information context is within their organization. At the
same time, these same web services that support open sharing of data pro-
vide opportunities for one’s own organization to better integrate its digital
repository content into their own existing information architecture, enabling
better findability and collection development. Ultimately, it comes down to
the organization’s ability to support open access and their long-term values
related to the accessibility of content. How many different access points does
an organization wish to provide, and what metadata schemas will be needed
to support these points of access?

Notes

1. W3C XHTML2 Working Group, “A Vocabulary and Associated APIs for HTML and
XHTML,” www.w3.org/TR/htm15/.
2. OCLC, “WorldCat.org,” www.worldcat.org.
3. W3C XML Working Group, “XML Path Language,” www.w3.org/TR/xpath.
4. W3C XForms Working Group, “XForms 1.0 (2nd Ed.),” www.w3.org/TR/xforms/.
5. W3C XSLT Working Group, “XSL Transformations (XSLT),” www.w3.org/TR/xslt.
6. W3C XLink Working Group, “XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0,” www
.w3.org/TR/xlink/.
7. W3C XQuery Working Group, “XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language,” www
.w3.org/TR/xquery/.
8. W3C XPointer Working Group, “XML Pointer Language (XPointer),” www.w3.org/
TR/xptr/.
9. W3C Schema Working Group, “W3C XML Schema,” www.w3.org/XML/Schema.
10. Wikipedia, “Uniform Resource Identifier,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform
_Resource_Identifier.
11. OCLC’s VIAF, www.viaf.org.
12. Wikipedia, “JSON,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON.
13. Kyle Banerjee and Bonnie Parks, Migrating Library Data: A Practical Manual
(Chicago: American Library Association, 2017).

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