The OAI-ORE specification implements the ORE Model which introduces the resource map (ReM) that makes it possible to associate an identity with aggregations of resources and make assertions about their structure and semantics.
These aggregations (sometimes called compound digital objects or compound information objects) may combine distributed resources together, and with multiple media types including text, images, data, and video.
The goal of OAI-ORE is to expose the rich content in aggregations to applications that support authoring, deposit, exchange, visualization, reuse, and preservation.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded two years of work on the OAI-ORE project in 2006–2008.
Finally, the ORE standard builds upon the Cool URIs [3] guideline, which discussed two strategies for not confusing a thing and some representation of it.