Chapter 3: Serializing and Exposing Resource Maps

Abstract

Serializing and exposing Resource Maps is where the “rubber meets the road” in ORE. As described in chapter 1, to serialize a Resource Map essentially means to write it down in a format that can be transmitted and read by a machine. The ORE specification documents three different formats for Resource Map serialization: RDF/XML, RDFa, and Atom XML, although there are others.