Work in the Open Archives Initiative - Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE)
focuses on an important aspect of infrastructure for eScience: the
specification of the data model and a suite of implementation standards to
identify and describe compound objects. These are objects that aggregate
multiple sources of content including text, images, data, visualization tools,
and the like. These aggregations are an essential product of eScience, and will
become increasingly common in the age of data-driven scholarship. The OAI-ORE