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• ONIX for Serials
• A comprehensive metadata framework for
  subscription resources
• Tim Devenport
• The Importance of Metadata - Implementing ONIX
  for Serials
• ALPSP/BSG Seminar, London, UK, 20 May 2004

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• Overview
• The importance of metadata
• What is ONIX for Serials?
• Purpose and benefits of the standard
• Whos involved in governance, message
  development and pilots
• Message formats and pilots
• SOH (serial online holdings) format
• SPS (serial products subscriptions) format
• SRN (serial release notification) format
• How ONIX could help your business
• ONIX and other relevant standards/initiatives
• Resources and contacts

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• The importance of metadata
• What happens if we ignore it?
• Not MORE carrots?!
• Discovering, sharing, comparing, using,
  categorising, selecting, exchanging, buying,
  selling, automating, and many other ings!
• And particularly in a digital environment
• Well-structured metadata is vital to business
  performance and responsiveness to customer/market
  needs.
• Standards help considerably dont have to
  develop own, are widely recognised by others,
  remove guesswork and ambiguity
• The niche that ONIX for Serials seeks to fill in
  this industry

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• ONIX for Serials - Origins
• 1999/2000 Great impetus from online booksellers
  and sites, such as Amazon.com, BarnesNoble.com,
  etc. The original ONIX Books standard developed
  in a transatlantic partnership since very widely
  adopted across the world as the leading format.
• 2001 EDItEUR study carried out across the
  Serials sector, to establish whether similar
  needs existed and whether an ONIX framework a
  viable option. Ed Jones commenced survey of
  Information Needs in Serial Sector.
• 2002 First sample records (Serial Item, Serial
  Title, Subscription Package) published by
  EDItEUR constituency forming for further work
• 2003 Collaboration with NISO to establish Joint
  Working Party first XML schemas and
  documentation delivered pilots undertaken.
• 2004 date JWP work continues, new workstreams
  launched, pilot partners considering
  commercialising the prototype messages. Further
  applicability of related approaches to
  transactional exchanges being studied.

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• What is ONIX for Serials?
• A structured, comprehensive and extensible
  metadata standard for journals and other serial
  resources
• An evolving group of messages designed to support
  specific business needs in the serials sector
• A sibling of the widely-used ONIX for Books
  standard, with which it shares approach and data
  dictionary
• Expressed in XML, with applications validated and
  controlled by either XML schemas or DTDs
• Thoroughly documented for implementation
  reference
• Developed and supported as an open standard by
  EDItEUR
• Steered by close interaction with international
  user groups

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• Purpose and benefits of the standard
• Facilitate information exchange across the
  serials sector
• Increase speed, accuracy and depth of exchanges
• Reduce costs and errors by automated,
  computer-to-computer messages
• Enable easy communication to and from Web-enabled
  applications
• Drive discovery (particularly of online
  resources) and sales by provision of enhanced
  metadata
• Provide one standard metadata set rich enough to
  converge on, replacing multiple formats now
  encountered

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• And why XML?
• Platform and software independent
• Powerful, flexible and controllable
• Permits validation, parsing, generally supports
  information quality
• Lifts constraints of fixed-fieldlength approaches
• XML is the language of the Web
• So easy communication to and from Web-enabled
  applications
• XML increasingly embedded into or packaged with
  software
• Can cope with any digital object - not limited to
  text or numbers
• Graphical images, sound files, executables,
• And effectively with any language or character set

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• The NISO/EDItEUR Joint Working Party (JWP)
• Established late in Autumn 2002
• Followup to NISO-commissioned study on The
  Exchange of Serials Subscriptions Information (Ed
  Jones)
• Co-chairs Richard Gedye (OUP), Priscilla Caplan
  (Univ FL)
• Subgroups convened and meeting several times
  per month
• PAMS to Library Exchanges (Ted Fons, Innovative)
• Publisher to Library Exchanges (RG, Jim Mouw,
  Univ Chicago)
• Identifier Issues (Amy Brand/Ed Pentz, Crossref)
• Business cases and required data elements agreed,
  pilots underway
• New subgroups convening Coverage, SRN/Item
  Level, Licences
• Governance and support now co-sponsored by
  EDItEUR and NISO

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• Active JWP participants
• CrossRef
• EBSCO
• EDItEUR
• Ex Libris
• Fretwell-Downing
• Harrassowitz
• Innovative
• ISSN
• NISO

• North Carolina State Univ.
• OCLC
• Oxford University Press
• Serial Solutions
• University of Chicago
• University of Florida
• US Library of Congress
• Wiley

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• Article-level interest group
• First ONIX for Serials user group meeting,
  London, Summer 2002
• Core group of interested players roles
  included
• Oxford University Press (source of serials data)
• BL (recipient testing partner)
• Extenza (recipient, distributor, early ONIX
  adoptor)
• Ingenta (recipient hosting service)
• CrossRef and mEDRA (metadata for DOI
  registration) and Infotrieve (recipient docdel)
• Cambridge University Press (another early
  adoptor)
• Now refocussing and progressing earlier work
  (Serial Item Record) preliminary steps taken by
  ONIX team and emerging Joint Working Party
  subgroup

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• Message Formats Supported
• EDItEUR currently supporting and developing three
  formats
• Serial Online Holdings (SOH) supports
  communication needs between libraries and
  hosting/access mgt services for their online
  resources
• Serial Products and Subscriptions (SPS) supports
  exchanges on availability/prices/sales of serial
  resources, between publishers or agents and
  libraries or other customers
• Serial Release Notification (SRN) provides a
  metadata set to facilitate article-, issue- or
  release-level exchanges between publishers,
  docdel, AI and other services

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• The SOH format, 1
• Designed with the JWP PAMS to Library subgroup
• Active participants - Serials Solutions,
  Innovative, US LoC, North Carolina State
  University, Fretwell-Downing, EBSCO
• Supports communication needs between libraries
  and the hosting/access mgt services for their
  online resources
• Populate resolution servers, information on
  resources subscribed, completeness levels,
  e-formats, embargos, etc.
• Two main exchange models, supported by one XML
  schema
• A flat, A-Z listing of online resources
• A similar listing, but grouped by hosting service

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• The SOH format, 2
• Serials Solutions generated sample data using SOH
  schema
• Innovative and Library of Congress have
  collaborated on receiving and utilising the data
• Library of Congress has made CSS style sheet to
  produce a working HTML A-Z List of its online
  resources from the ONIX data received. Can also
  click through to own resources and link back to
  SFX server
• Now testing alternative transmission, grouped by
  host
• Further agent involvement proposed by
  Harrassowitz
• Collaboration with ERMI envisaged to enhance
  coverage of license terms and conditions

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• The SPS format, 1
• Developed with JWP Agent/Publisher to Library
  subgroup
• Leading participants OUP, Univ. Chicago,
  Harrassowitz, OCLC, Wiley, EBSCO, Univ. Florida
• Libraries interested in finding out the complete
  range of resources available from publishers,
  particularly e-journal access rights derived from
  paper purchases, and how their pricing matches up
  to catalog
• Publishers and agents are keen to assemble more
  complete picture of library holdings, direct or
  via intermediaries this frequently as a prelude
  to consortium/package/license terms negotiations
• One ONIX format devised to support three options
  ...

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• The SPS format, 2
• Variants supported by message
• Unpriced or priced list (price catalog) of
  serial products available on subscription from
  the sender, showing the works and versions of
  works contained in each
• List of serial products with prices for a
  particular subscriber, including current prices
  and prices last paid
• Pilots in preparation OUP Wiley as senders,
  Univ Chicago, US LoC one school Univ Florida as
  receivers. Harrassowitz will act as both sender
  and receiver in different pilots.
• Initial focus on outgoing Publisher-to-Library
  message
• Library to Publisher return message deferred
  to later stage.

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• The SRN Format for Article- or Issue-Level
  Exchanges
• Initial impetus from ONIX for Serials user group
  mtg
• Now to be progressed under aegis of JWP Serial
  Item subgroup
• Will be available for pilot as Serial Release
  Notification (SRN), probably both as XML schema
  AND as DTD
• Exchanges planned include article metadata to
  AI, docdel, library and hosting services,
  metadata for DOI registration, structured
  ToCs/description of article batches
• Enhancements and features from ONIX 2.1 for Books
  incorporated in SRN (and in the SOH, SPS formats)
• Additional features will be added at request of
  early adopters CUP and Extenza

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• How ONIX could help your business
• Publishers aid disclosure and discovery, drive
  usage, say more about your products and services,
  in Web-friendly format, provide a lingua franca
  for e-talking about subscriptions
• Librarians automate check-in of online (and
  paper!) resources, assist in holdings management,
  populate resolution servers, help discover
  compare the range of offerings available
• Cataloguing bibliographic agencies reduce load
  of basic metadata harvesting, speed assignment of
  ISSNs, DOIs, etc.
• Agents, docdel/article suppliers, hosting/access
  mgt services automate and further systematise
  data exchanges

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• ONIX and other standards/initiatives
• ONIX NOT seeking to supplant MARC(!), but OCLC
  doing a first mapping of ONIX for Serials vs.
  MARC Holdings format
• ONIX collaborating with Electronic Resource
  Management Initiative (ERMI), particularly for
  license terms description
• Informal review underway of heavily-used article
  DTDs such as Elsevier, Wiley, CrossRef, SSSH,
  Springer
• Comparative review of ONIX vs. PRISM
  facilities/functions
• Inter-operable with ONIX for Books, similarly
  with the EDItX series of XML transactional
  standards underway
• ONIX to support DOI registration (mEDRA,
  CrossRef, TSO)

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• Relevant resources
• NISO/EDItEUR Joint Working Party contact
  Priscilla Caplan, Richard Gedye, Brian Green or
  Pat Harris, or look at www.niso.org/standards/reso
  urces/SerialsWP.html
• Serial Online Holdings (SOH) AND Serial
  Publications Subscriptions (SPS) ONIX for
  Serials formats XML schemas, HTML documentation
  and information on pilot exchanges - via Tim
  Devenport
• Serial Release Notification (SRN) format
  schemas, documentation and enquiries on pilot
  participation - via Brian Green or Tim Devenport
• Serial Item, Serial Title and Subscription
  Package records and other documentation, also on
  ONIX more generally, www.editeur.org/

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• Contacts include
• Tim Devenport, timdevenport_at_aol.com
• David Martin, david_at_polecat.dircon.co.uk
• Francis Cave, francis_at_franciscave.com
• Brian Green, BIC/EDItEUR, brian_at_bic.org.uk
• Priscilla Caplan, co-chair of JWP,
  pcaplan_at_ufl.edu
• Richard Gedye, co-chair of JWP,
  richard.gedye_at_oupjournals.org