Maja Žumer is an associate professor of library and information science at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Her research interests include design and evaluation of information retrieval systems, end-user interfaces and, recently, the FRBR model, particularly implementation aspects. She is a member of the IFLA FRBR Review Group, the chair of the Working Group for “Guidelines for national ...

This paper presents LORE (Literature Object Re-use and Exchange), a light-weight tool which is designed to allow literature scholars and teachers to author, edit and publish compound information objects encapsulating related digital resources and bibliographic records. LORE enables users to easily create OAI-ORE-compliant compound objects, which build on the IFLA FRBR model. It also enables the...