RFID Integration using NCIP

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RFID Integration using NCIP

• Presentation for the NCIP Implementers Group
• Vincent Johnston

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Basic Requirements

• Conversion
• initialization of the RFID label.
• Integration with the LMS circulation application
• Send Item Identifier/barcode
• Update security function

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Advanced Requirements

• Initialization of RFID User cards
• Seamless integration with the LMS circulation
  application.
• Conversion
• Stack processing

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Advantages of NCIP

• Use of industry standard and TCP/IP for
  application integration is preferable compared to
  direct integration
• LMS vendors can easily support multiple RFID
  vendors (bad feature!).
• SIP2 has limitations, especially with the one-way
  communication structure.

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Communications

• The BiblioChip application will communicate
  directly with the RFID Reader and the BiblioChip
  label.
• It will also communicate with the LMS Circulation
  application using TCP/IP.
• If a non-Windows Circulation application is used,
  the BiblioChip application can reside on another
  computer.

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Conversion

• NCIP Lookup Item Service (5.3.3) to obtain the
  bibliographic information needed to initialize
  the item labels.
• The user scans the items existing barcode. The
  barcode is sent in the initiation message to the
  LMS.
• The response message from the LMS contains the
  bibliographic fields required by BiblioChip for
  label initialization.
• Bibliotheca provides the conversion application.

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Basic Circulation Integration

• Send Item ID/Barcode
• BiblioChip notifies the LMS application in the
  same way as a barcode scanner simulated
  keyboard entry to the active input field.
• BiblioChip notifies the LMS application that the
  reader has identified an item by using the Item
  Received Service (5.5.10). The item ID is sent in
  the initiation message to the LMS application.
  The response message from the LMS application is
  not required to provide information back
  (Response contains no data if successful,
  otherwise an error message).

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Update Security Function

• As the LMS application checks each item ID in or
  out, the Item Checked In Service (5.5.5) or Item
  Checked Out Service (5.5.6) initiation message is
  sent to BiblioChip. The checked out status of the
  item ID specified in the message will be updated
  accordingly.
• The response message returned will contain the
  Item ID that was checked in or out, or it will
  indicate failure.
• If failure is indicated, the user will need to be
  prompted to place the item back on the reader.
• If the status of the item is not changed, no
  message is required to be sent.

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Integrated Conversion

• The user displays the bibliographic record, then
  chooses the initialize label function.
• The LMS application notifies the BiblioChip
  Application by using the Create Item Service
  (5.4.6) initiation message. This message will
  contain all the bibliographic information needed
  to initialize the item label. The response
  message returned will contain the Item ID, or
  will indicate failure. If failure is indicated,
  the user will need to be prompted to place the
  item back on the reader and the initiation
  message should be sent again.

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Verification of label

• The data on the item label can be read using the
  Lookup Item Service (5.3.3). This allows the LMS
  application access to the data stored on the
  BiblioChip. The Item ID must be specified in the
  Initiation message from the LMS application.

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RFID User Cards

• The BiblioChip application notifies the LMS
  application that the reader has identified a user
  card by using the Item Received Service (5.5.10).
  
• The Item ID will be blank and the User ID field
  will be valid. The user ID is sent in the
  initiation message to the LMS application.
• The response message from the LMS application is
  not required to provide information back.

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User Card Initialization

• The LMS application notifies BiblioChipXMLServer
  by using the Create User Service (5.4.7)
  initiation message.
• This message will contain all the user
  information needed to initialize the user card.
• The response message returned will contain the
  User ID, or will indicate failure. If failure is
  indicated, the user will need to be prompted to
  place the card back on the reader and the
  initiation message should be sent again.

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Item and User Card Updates

• The data on the item label can be modified using
  the Update Item Service (5.4.18) The Item ID must
  be specified in the Initiation message from the
  LMS application.
• The data on the RFID user card can be modified
  using the Update User Service (5.4.20) The User
  ID must be specified in the Initiation message
  from the LMS application.