[Asis-standards] FYI FW: NISO Working Group Connection January 2012
Richard Hill
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Wed Jan 18 14:12:08 EST 2012
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January 2012
Working Group Connection is a quarterly supplement to the monthly NISO
Newsline e-newsletter, published in January, April, July, and October.
Working Group Connection provides the latest news from NISO's working groups
and committees. Working Group Connection will keep you up-to-date on the
progress of all of the standards and recommended practices in development
and maintenance, letting you know both what is new and what is forthcoming.
Architecture Committee
* E-book Special Interest Group
Business Information Topic Committee
* ERM Data Review Working Group
* I2 (Institutional Identifiers) Working Group
* PIE-J (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals)
Working Group
* SERU (Shared E-Resource Understanding) Standing Committee
* SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative)
Standing Committee
* Z39.7 Data Dictionary Standing Committee
Content & Collection Management Topic Committee
* DAISY Standard Revision Working Group
* RFID in Libraries Revision Working Group
* Standardized Markup for Journal Articles (JATS: Journal
Article Tag Suite) Working Group
* NISO/NFAIS Supplemental Journal Article Materials Project
Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee
* ESPReSSO (Establishing Suggested Practices Regarding Single
Sign-On) Working Group
* IOTA (Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics) Working Group
* NISO/UKSG KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) Phase 2
Working Group
* NCIP (NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol) Standing
Committee
* Open Discovery Initiative Working Group
* Physical Delivery of Library Resources Working Group
Architecture Committee
Chair: Barbara Preece (Dean of the Library, California State University, San
Marcos, & Vice-Chair, NISO Board of Directors)
E-book Special Interest Group
The E-Book Special Interest Group subgroups, covering the following topic
areas:
* Accessibility Issues
* Discovery tools & Linking
* Distribution (EPUB, PDF, Web + others)
* Metadata General (ONIX, MARC, PREMIS, METS, Dublin Dore, PMH, etc.)
held discussion conference calls in August and October to discuss the
current state of affairs in their respective areas and to brainstorm on
possible project areas for NISO. Following these, summary notes were
provided to all subgroups and a survey was circulated to the Core E-Book SIG
members for input into prioritization. NISO is now in the process of
reviewing the survey input before next steps with the group. We expect
several new work items for 2012 to be created from the E-Book SIG. More
information, including webinar recordings, can be found at the E-Book SIG
webpage <http://www.niso.org/topics/ebooksig/> .
Business Information Topic Committee
Chair: Kathleen Folger (University of Michigan Library)
ERM Data Standards & Best Practices Review Working Group
Chair: Tim Jewell (University of Washington)
ERM Review Workroom <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/ermreview>
The NISO ERM Data Standards and Best Practices Review Working Group has now
completed its final report, Making Good on the Promise of ERM: A Standards
and Best Practices Discussion Paper. Following publication preparation by
NISO staff, it will be available from the NISO website. Working Group
members plan to present and lead discussions on their conclusions at
upcoming conferences-such as ALA Midwinter and ER&L-and will be talking
about the report on the NISO Open Teleconference
<http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/telecon/> on February 13.
The NISO ERM Standards and Best Practices Review Working Group is a
successor to the Digital Library Federation's Electronic Resources
Management Initiative (ERMI), whose data model and dictionary established
working standards for E-resource management, and ERMI 2, which provided
training for license analysis and led to the development of the SUSHI
protocol and NISO CORE recommended practice. The project's primary goals
have been to perform a gap analysis of standards and best practices and make
recommendations on the future of the ERMI Data Dictionary.
The environmental scan of the ERM standards landscape focused on five
categories: Link Resolvers and Knowledge Bases; The Work, Manifestations,
and Access Points; Cost and Usage-Related Data; License Terms and Defining
Consensus; and Data Exchange Using Institutional Identifiers. Among the
conclusions and recommendations reached were that NISO continue to encourage
well-focused standards initiatives rather than pursue the goal of a single,
comprehensive ERM Data Dictionary; that it facilitate discussions leading to
a "simpler and scalable 'third way' of encoding license terms;" and that
NISO help establish consensus among libraries regarding e-resource workflow
support needs and priorities.
I2 (Institutional Identifiers) Working Group
Co-Chairs: Grace Agnew (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), Oliver
Pesch (EBSCO Information Services)
I <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/i2> 2 Workroom
The I2 Working Group has been actively working with the ISNI International
Agency (ISNI-IA)-the organization created to deploy and manage the new
International Standard Name Identifier Registration Authority-to ensure that
the infrastructure ISNI-IA is creating will effectively handle the
identification of institutions within the information supply chain. Formal
recommendations made by the I2 Working Group have now been accommodated by
ISNI, and ISNI-IA is planning to issue a call for Registration Agencies
soon.
The I2 Working Group is now working on a final report, expected in Q1 2012,
to summarize its work and the successful conclusion of the implementation of
a workable institutional identifier, under ISNI, to make the information
supply chain work better.
Janifer Gatenby of OCLC presented on ISNI as part of the January 11 NISO
Webinar, Identify This! Identify That! New Identifiers and New Uses; her
presentation
<http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=7880&wg_abbr
ev=education> slides are available online.
PIE-J (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals) Working Group PIE-J:
Presentation and Identification of E-Journals
<http://www.niso.org/workrooms/piej/PieJ.jpg>
Co-chairs: Cindy Hepfer (University of Buffalo, SUNY), Bob Boissy (Springer)
PIE-J Workroom <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/piej>
The PIE-J Working Group is developing a Recommended Practice to provide
guidance on the presentation and identification of e-journals, particularly
in the area of title presentation and bibliographic history, accurate use of
the ISSN, and citation practice. This work is intended to assist publishers,
platform providers, abstracting and indexing services, knowledgeable
providers, aggregators, and other concerned parties in facilitating online
discovery, identification, and access for the publications.
The group is continuing its hard work on the draft Recommended Practice,
which it plans to release for a 45-day comment period in Q1 2012. Sections
of the document include guidelines, a glossary, many examples of good
practice, and appendixes covering resources and ISSN, DOI,and related
standards.
Kathy Klemperer and Andrea Twiss-Brooks presented on PIE-J in early November
at the Charleston Conference. The presentation slides are available online
in two parts: Part
<http://www.slideshare.net/twissbrooks/best-practices-for-presentation-of-e-
journals-part-1> 1 and Part
<http://www.slideshare.net/twissbrooks/best-practices-for-presentation-of-e-
journals-part-2> 2. Regina Reynolds and Cindy Hepfer discussed PIE-J and
answered questions about it during the NISO October Open Teleconference; a
recording
<http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=7413&wg_abbr
ev=education> of the call is available for download.
SERU (Shared E-Resource Understanding) Standing Committee SERU logo
<http://www.niso.org/workrooms/seru/SERU_vertical.gif>
Co-chairs: Judy Luther (Informed Strategies), Selden Lamoureux (University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
SERU Workroom <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/seru>
SERU Recommended <http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-7-2008.pdf>
Practice (NISO RP--2008)
The SERU Standing Committee's work on a revised SERU is now
<http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/rp-7-201x/> available for public
comment. Following an autumn of intense work by the members of the
committee, and circulation of the draft to a small list of expert reviewers,
an open "Lively Lunch" was held at the Charleston Conference to discuss the
draft with a larger audience. This discussion subsequently led to further
revisions to the document during December before finalization.
When SERU was adopted as a NISO Recommended Practice in 2008, its focus was
on e-journal transactions, and the parties involved were primarily libraries
and publishers. Since then, with the many emerging models for acquisition of
e-books, both libraries and e-book providers have requested that other types
of electronic resources be incorporated into the SERU framework. This
updated version of SERU recognizes both the importance of making SERU more
flexible for those who want to expand its use beyond e-journals and the fact
that consensus for other types of e-resource transactions are not as
well-established as they are for e-journals. In those instances where there
is as yet no standard expectation, a shared understanding may still be
achieved if expectations are clearly articulated in the purchase order that
accompanies SERU.
Several members of the SERU Standing Committee participated in the NISO Open
Teleconference on January 9, to discuss the updates and answer questions.
The
<http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=7857&wg_abbr
ev=education> recording of this call is available for download.
SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) Standing
Committee
Co-chairs: Bob McQuillan (Innovative Interfaces), Oliver Pesch (EBSCO
Information Services)
SUSHI Workroom <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi>
SUSHI standard <http://www.niso.org/standards/z39-93-2007/> (ANSI/NISO
Z39.93-2007)
This Standing Committee provides maintenance and support for ANSI/NISO
Z39.93-2007, The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI)
Protocol, and acts as maintenance group for the COUNTER schema by providing
recommendations to COUNTER and making changes to the COUNTER XML schemas (as
approved by COUNTER).
The SUSHI Standing Committee has been very busy as the COUNTER Release 4
Code of Practice has been circulating for comments and is due to be released
in early Q1 2012 for implementation by vendors in the year following.
COUNTER is undergoing extensive updating to accommodate the new types of
materials which libraries provide to their patrons and to support more
sophisticated evaluation and comparison needs from librarians. Although
SUSHI's flexible structure will help to easily accommodate necessary
changes, there are a few more details in the standard that need to be looked
after.
A <http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/rp-14-201x/> COUNTER-SUSHI
Implementation Profile (NISO RP-14-201X), which improves interaction between
servers and clients by setting out detailed expectations on how SUSHI and
COUNTER XML reports should be implemented, is available for public comment
through January 31. The SUSHI Server group, a subgroup of the SUSHI Standing
Committee, developed a draft Recommended Practice now available for trial
use,
<http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=7052&wg_abbr
ev=sushiservers> Providing a Test Mode for SUSHI Servers (NISO RP-13-201X),
which defines how to add testing functionality to SUSHI servers to enable
clients to be more easily developed and tested.
Z39.7 Data Dictionary Standing Committee
Chair: Martha Kyrillidou, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Z39.7 Data Dictionary <http://www.niso.org/dictionary>
The Information Services and Use: Metrics & statistics for libraries and
information providers - Data Dictionary (ANSI/NISO
<http://www.niso.org/dictionary> Z39.7) is an online standard that is
continuously maintained by the Standing Committee. Any user of the data
dictionary may submit suggested changes through a comment box, which appears
on the webpage for each section of the standard. All comments received on
the standard, or any new developments that might warrant changes to the
Dictionary, are reviewed by the Standing Committee during regular monthly
phone calls.
All changes accepted by the Standing Committee since its last 2004 approval
have been added to the online dictionary in preparation for a ballot by NISO
voting members on a new revision of the standard. In the latter part of
2011, the Standing Committee has also been discussing additional related
topics related to definitions of the library, value of performance
indicators, and maintenance of liaisons with related efforts, some
international.
Content & Collection Management Topic Committee
Co-chairs: Rice Majors (University of Colorado at Boulder), Julia Blixrud
(Association of Research Libraries (ARL))
DAISY Standard Revision Working Group
Co-chairs: George Kerscher (DAISY), Markus Gylling (DAISY)
DAISY Revision Workroom <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/daisy>
ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2005, <http://www.niso.org/standards/z39-86-2005/>
Specifications for the Digital Talking Book
Draft Standard for Trial Use: <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/daisy> NISO
Z39.86-201x, Authoring and Interchange Framework Specification
The trial use for Part A of the DAISY Revision, the Authoring and
Interchange Framework, ended on September 28, 2011. The Working Group
reviewed comments and made changes based on feedback from trial implementors
and reviewers, including the DAISY Pipeline 2 working group, representatives
working on the "DIAGRAM" project funded by the U.S. Department of Education,
and the Board of the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard
(NIMAS).
The Z39.86 revision was originally planned to be in two parts: Part A is
manifested in the Authoring and Interchange Framework for Adaptive XML
Publishing, which is intended to be published as the revised standard. Work
on Part B, Distribution, was suspended because the requirements for
distribution, including XHTML for processing and rendering, provision of
audio and text synchronization, and integration of text-to-speech markup,
are met by the new EPUB 3 <http://idpf.org/epub/30> specification, now an
approved standard. It is anticipated that the Authoring and Interchange
Framework for Adaptive XML Publishing will be used to represent content in a
wide variety of genres, e.g. textbooks, newspapers, and trade books.
The final version of the revised standard is now in the process of approval
by the CCM Topic Committee, after which a 45-day ballot will be presented to
the NISO Members Voting Pool and, if approved, final certification of the
revised standard will need to be made by ANSI prior to publication.
RFID in Libraries Revision Working Group
Co-chairs: Vinod Chachra (VTLS, Inc.), Paul Sevcik (3M Library Systems)
RFID in Libraries Workroom <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/rfid>
The Working Group is in the final stages of preparing the revised
Recommended Practice for publication in early Q1 2012, following a public
comment period which ended in late June 2011. The revisions have entailed
ensuring that the NISO Recommended Practice is in sync with the three-part
RFID in Libraries ISO standard, ISO 25860, published in 2011. The RP will be
used by RFID hardware manufacturers, solution providers (software and
integration), library RFID users, book jobbers and processors, and related
organizations in the United States.
Standardized Markup for Journal Articles Working Group (JATS: Journal
Article Tag Suite)
Co-chairs: Jeff Beck (National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S.
National Library of Medicine), B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
JATS Workroom <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/journalmarkup>
JATS Draft Standard for Trial <http://www.niso.org/standards/z39-96/> Use
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) created the Journal Archiving and
Interchange Tag Suite with the intent of providing a common format in which
publishers and archives can exchange journal content. The goal of the work
of the NISO JATS Working Group is to take the NLM Journal Archiving and
Interchange Tag Suite, three journal article schemas (Journal Archiving and
Interchange Tag Set, Journal Publishing Tag Set, and Article Authoring Tag
Set) and associated documentation, update it per current industry
requirements, and shepherd it through the NISO standardization process.
A draft standard for trial use, NISO Z39.96-201x,
<http://www.niso.org/standards/z39-96/> JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite,
ended its trial availability on September 30, 2011, and since that time the
Working Group has spent considerable time discussing and responding to the
many content- and schema-related comments and suggestions.
It is planned that the final standard, after approval by the JATS Working
Group and the CCM Topic Committee, will be balloted as version 1.0 of NISO
Z39.96. Approval by NISO Voting Members and the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI) will be required before the final standard is published.
The standard will then be continuously maintained by a JATS Standing
Committee.
NISO/NFAIS Supplemental Journal Article Materials Project
Business Working Group
Co-chairs: Linda Beebe (American Psychological Association), Marie McVeigh
(Thomson Reuters)
Technical Working Group
Co-chairs: Dave Martinsen (American Chemical Society), Sasha Schwarzman
(American Geophysical Union)
Supplemental Journal <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental> Article
Materials Workroom
Roundtable on Best <http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/supplementary/> Practices
for Supplemental Journal Article Materials (January 2010)
This joint NISO-NFAIS Working Group has been developing a set of recommended
practices to help publishers and editors in selection, delivery, aid of
discovery, and preservation of supplemental materials released with journal
articles. The Working Group consists of two subgroups, the Business Working
Group and the Technical Working Group, which have been working separately
but in tandem, each dealing with different, more specific areas.
The Business Working Group is covering policies and practices, and the
Technical Working Group is addressing technical recommendations and
documents covering "how-to" aspects of implementation. Subgroups for
linking, packaging, and archiving have been working to finalize specific
considerations in each of these areas. Areas of the draft recommendations
include: Selecting Content; Editing Content; Managing and Hosting; Assuring
Discoverability; Referencing Materials; Maintaining Links; Providing
Context; Preserving Material; Rights Management; and Appendices.
The group has now determined that the Business Working Group's Recommended
Practice will be published for open comment in early Q1 2012 while the
Technical Working Group finishes up its work. After a period of review, the
groups will respond to comments and adjust the draft Recommendations as
appropriate, and submit the final document for approval by NISO and NFAIS.
Sasha Schwarzman, co-chair of the Technical Working Group, presented on the
work of the groups at JATS-Con
<http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=7504&wg_abbr
ev=supptechnical> 2011 in late September and at the CrossRef
<http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=7527&wg_abbr
ev=supptechnical> workshops in November. Linda Beebe, co-chair of the
Business Working Group, presented in October at the NISO Webinar, Managing
<http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/nisowebinars/materials/NISOwebinar12oc
tober2011PRINT.pdf> Data for Scholarly Communications, Part 1: Supplemental
Materials and at the Charleston
<http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=7503&wg_abbr
ev=suppbusiness> Conference in November.
Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee
Co-chairs: Robert Walsh (EnvisionWare, Inc.), Tim Shearer (University of
North Carolina Chapel Hill Library)
ESPReSSO (Establishing Suggested Practices Regarding Single Sign-On) Working
Group espresso logo
<http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/7316/NISO_Espresso4C.gif
>
Co-chairs: Harry Kaplanian (Serials Solutions), Steven Carmody (Brown
University)
ESPReSSO Workroom <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sso>
NISO <http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-11-2011_ESPReSSO.pdf>
RP-11-2011, ESPReSSO: Establishing Suggested Practices Regarding Single
Sign-On was published in November 2011, following a 30-day public comment
period and approval by the D2D Topic Committee.
The ESPReSSO Recommended Practice provides practical solutions for improving
the success of existing single sign-on (SSO) authentication technologies to
provide a seamless experience for the user. It aims to create bridges to
address today's hybrid environment-with the growing complexity of licensing
situations and network design, along with the increased usage from mobile
devices-and move all parties towards a longer-term effective SSO solution.
Specifically, ESPReSSO recommends best practices related to selection of
authentication method and transparent flow between the service provider (SP)
site and the identity provider (IdP) site during authentication. The
ESPReSSO Working Group was primarily concerned with the situation where an
organization (a company, a campus, a public library, etc.) acquires a
license to access specific content that is delivered via the web, and where
the browser user is a member of the group authorized to access that content.
The ESPReSSO Working Group is now in the process of forming a Standing
Committee, to help with promotion and uptake of the Recommended Practice.
Improving OpenURL Through Analytics (IOTA) Working Group IOTA: Small
changes, Big Improvements
<http://www.niso.org/workrooms/openurlquality/IOTA.gif>
Chair: Adam Chandler (Cornell University)
IOTA Workroom <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/openurlquality>
IOTA Website including blog and <http://www.openurlquality.org/> analytic
log files
Follow on Twitter: @nisoiota <http://twitter.com/#!/nisoiota>
The IOTA (Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics) Working Group is
investigating the feasibility of creating industry-wide, transparent and
scalable metrics for evaluating and comparing the quality of OpenURL
implementations across content providers. This initiative is intended to be
two years in duration.
Most recently, the group has been working on significant improvements to the
user interface of the IOTA reporting system
<http://openurlquality.niso.org/> , and conducting a technical experiment to
empirically correlate its completeness rating, which it has been working on
for the duration of the project, to real link resolution in EBSCO and
Serials Solution resolvers. The effort attempts to measure the correlation
between 'success' and 'completeness' in hopes that this method can inform
the metric weightings that comprise the completeness score.
Public outreach efforts continue with presentations submitted to the
American Library Association Annual and the Special Libraries Association
programs. Also expected is an article in the 2011 NASIG conference
proceedings.
The IOTA reporting <http://openurlquality.niso.org/> system continues to
welcome data from participating libraries to help with analysis.
NISO/UKSG Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (KBART) Phase 2 Working Group
KBART logo <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart/kbart_logo_small.png>
Co-chairs: Andreas Biedenbach (Independent Information Professional), Sarah
Pearson (University of Birmingham)
Contact KBART Chairs for endorsement approval <mailto:kbart at niso.org>
KBART Workroom (NISO) <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart>
KBART Website (UKSG) <http://www.uksg.org/kbart>
The NISO/UKSG KBART Phase II Working Group is working to provide support for
the Phase I Recommended Practice, NISO RP-9-2010,
<http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-2010-09.pdf> KBART: Knowledge Bases
and Related Tools, and is also developing a second Recommended Practice to
build on these recommendations, specifically addressing the areas of
metadata for e-books and conference proceedings and packages licensed via
consortia deals. In addition, the Working Group is exploring the area of
open access materials and how this metadata might be published and shared in
knowledgebases.
The Working Group's meetings in the last half of 2011 concentrated on
hammering out details from the drafts for e-book metadata transfer and
working on surveys in the areas of metadata for open access, e-books and
conference proceedings, and consortial subscriptions, in order to help frame
requirements. These surveys are expected to be sent to the community via
mailing lists in early Q1 2012.
Several publishers and content providers are continuing to work with the
group in testing and endorsement of the Phase I Recommendations. The group
has created an internal tool to make it easier for the link resolver vendors
who are participating on the Working Group to communicate the results of
their tests of these vendor files. Contact information for all KBART
endorsers can be found on the KBART Registry
<http://sites.google.com/site/kbartregistry/> . You don't have to be an
endorser to register your contact details, but it helps!
NCIP (NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol) Standing Committee
Chair: Mike Dicus (Ex Libris)
Maintenance Agency: EnvisionWare (contact: Rob Walsh)
NCIP Workroom <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/ncip>
NCIP Maintenance Agency <http://www.ncip.info/>
The NCIP Standing Committee reviews status of implementations and other
general business on monthly calls. Twice a year, in-person meetings are held
in order to review ongoing updates to the NCIP protocol. The fall NCIP
Standing Committee meeting was held on October 12-13 at the offices of
Envisionware in suburban Atlanta; the meeting was successful as all defect
and change requests were discussed and addressed.
Accepted changes include: the addition of repeatable, optional Bibliographic
Id to Loaned Item and Requested Item; addition of optional Date Due to Item
Optional Fields; addition of UPC and GTIN to Bibliographic Item Identifier
Code scheme; addition of DVD and Blu-Ray to Medium Type scheme; and addition
of Lookup Item Service.
The updated material is now in the process of final edits by NISO staff and
is expected to be put to the Voting Members for approval as a revision to
the Z39.83 standard, after approval by the D2D Topic Committee.
The next in-person meeting will be April 25-26, 2012 in Winchester,
Virginia, hosted by TLC. The closing date for updates to be submitted for
discussion at this meeting is March 1, 2012.
An Introduction to NCIP, which provides librarians and other implementers
with a basic introduction to NCIP and links to sources of additional
information about the standard, has been published at the NCIP website
<http://www.ncip.info/introduction-to-ncip.html> . The NCIP Implementers
Registry <http://ncip.dev3.webenabled.net/> continues to grow and is
available to libraries as an assessment tool for evaluation of a system's
use of NCIP for interoperability with other applications.
New members of the Standing Committee include Ranny Lacanienta and Brent
Thompson of SirsiDynix. The Standing Committee also bade farewell and good
wishes to Susan Campbell of the College Center for Library Automation (CCLA)
on the occasion of her retirement, and welcomed her colleague John Sandstrum
to the committee.
Open Discovery Initiative Working Group
Co-chairs: Marshall Breeding (Vanderbilt University), Jenny Walker (Ex
Libris)
The new ODI working group is starting its work in January 2012 to define
best practices for the new generation of library discovery services that are
based on indexed search. Reliance by libraries on indexed search as a
primary means for users to discover and access library-licensed content
brings with it new requirements for work to be done in the industry in a
number of areas, and this new working group, though its work plan isn't set
yet, intends to improve communications and clarity. Goals for the working
group include creating ways for libraries to assess the level of
participation by information providers in discovery services; help
streamline the process by which information providers work with discovery
service vendors; define models for fair linking from discovery services to
publisher content; and determine what usage statistics should be collected.
Those interested in following the work of this effort can join the ODI
interest group mailing list by sending an e-mail to:
opendiscoveryinfo-subscribe at list.niso.org.
Physical Delivery of Library Resources Working Group
Co-chairs: Valerie Horton (Colorado Library Consortium), Diane
Sachs-Silveira (Tampa Bay Library Consortium)
Physical Delivery Workroom <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/physdel>
The NISO Physical Delivery of Library Resources Working Group completed
review of comments submitted during the public review period for its draft
Recommended Practice. Following some edits to the document and approval by
the Working Group, it is now in its final approval stage by the D2D Topic
Committee and is expected to become available around the time of the
American Library Association Midwinter meeting.
The purpose of the Recommended Practice is to identify methods for improved
physical movement of items: the delivery of the items to the requesting
library and their return to the lending library. The Recommended Practice
focuses on three key areas: the physical move, automation, and the
management of physical delivery. It also includes some suggestions about
other steps in the patron request process that can help to ensure the
delivery piece works optimally. The Recommended Practice's scope is limited
to the external delivery of items between separately administered libraries,
although many of the recommendations could apply to delivery between
branches of a single library system, as well.
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