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This module provides an implementation of OpenURLs encoded as URIs 
(Key/Encoded-Value (KEV) Format), this forms only a part of the OpenURL 
spec. It does not check that OpenURLs constructed are sane according to 
the OpenURL specification (to a large extent sanity will depend on the 
community of use).

From the implementation guidelines:

The description of a referenced resource, and the descriptions of the 
associated resources that comprise the context of the reference, bundled 
together are called a ContextObject. It is a ContextObject that is 
transported when a user makes a request by clicking a link. A KEV OpenURL 
may contain only one ContextObject.

The ContextObject may contain up to six Entities. One of these, the 
Referent, conveys information about the referenced item. It must always be 
included in a ContextObject. The other five entities - ReferringEntity, 
Requester, Resolver, ServiceType and Referrer - hold information about the 
context of the reference and are optional.

WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/URI-OpenURL/