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Organisation Profile Documents Community Group

closed on 2019-08-13

The aim of this group is to explore and develop a set of specifications for Organisational Profile Documents (OPDs). In particular we are interested in the usefulness of a machine readable OPD for the automatic discovery of resources in UK higher education institutions. Possible outcomes of the project would be: · Produce a specification for OPD · Create the documentation/supporting materials for OPDs · Promote the OPD to new organisations There is some support/resource from a UKHE funded project, data.ac.uk, more information on OPDs http://opd.data.ac.uk

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The aim of this group is to explore and develop a set of specifications for Organisational Profile Documents (OPDs). In particular we are interested in the usefulness of a machine readable OPD for the automatic discovery of resources in UK higher education institutions.

Possible outcomes of the project would be:

· Produce a specification for OPD
· Create the documentation/supporting materials for OPDs
· Promote the OPD to new organisations

There is some support/resource from a UKHE funded project, data.ac.uk, more information on OPDs http://opd.data.ac.uk


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This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2014-09-22 by Andrew Milsted. The following people supported its creation: Andrew Milsted, Emanuil Tolev, Giuseppe Sollazzo, Ethan Dagner, Giosue' Maugeri. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.

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