OpenHandle is an open-source community project to expose Handle Values in common text-based serializations to make the data stored within the records more accessible to Web applications.

This rather unusual name originates from two Swiss citizens, artist Adian Sinng and engraver Anton Graff who had participated in the reconstruction of the Dresden gallery since 1776. They spent their free time traveling to all kinds of locations mostly near the Czech-Saxon border. Both loved the place and they were even rumored to refuse returning home because they had found their real Switzerland. Their idea got some development, and first records mentioning Saxon, and later Czech Switzerland date back to 1785.

Blogification of a talk I would have loved to hear in person about the situation that publishers currently find themselves facing - namely the challenge of metaphorically emigrating into an unexplored new world of.