1. AMF design in brief Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel/ Simeon M. Warner http://t8web.lanl.gov/simeon

2. Wish list Data and metadata for action. Librarians have only documented the world; what matters is to change it. Tool for academic self-documentation –simple to compose –drop-in functionality with OAI intuition that comes from natural language

3. View of the world Author self-archiving will work if it is part of the advertisement of academics Creator has to be the descriptive focus, not the creation –we see a lot of paper by this person, she must be smart vs –I am smart because I have written all those papers

4. Resources and non-resources Persons Institutions Collections Resources –text

5. Natural language Nouns –person, organization, collection, text Adjective like –name, title, status, etc Verbs like –isauthorof, hassponsor, ispartof etc

6. Example 1 Simeon M. Warner AMF Design in brief http://openlib.org/h ome/krichel/southampton_2001- 07-13_1.ppt

7. id and ref For propeller head use. Records (instances of nouns) that are authoritative can have an id. Non-authoritative records can refer to authoritative ones, using a ref.

8. Example 2

9. http://amf.openlib.org/doc/ebisu.html Thank you for your attention.