ResourceSync: A Quick Overview
Channel: hvdsomp
Date: 2014-06-25

This presentation was prepared for the NISO Annual Update at the ALA Conference, June 2014. It introduces ResourceSync, a specification aimed to enable web-based synchronization of resources. The specification is the result of a collaboration between NISO and the Open Archives Initiative funded by the Sloan Foundation and JISC. The proposed resource synchronization approach is based on several existing specifications (e.g. Sitemaps, PubSubHubbub, well-known URI) and is aligned with common architectural principles (e.g. REST, follow your nose). Herbert Van de Sompel does the talking on behalf of the editors of the specification.