niso access related projects (presented at the charleston conference 2016)

Access All Around: A NISO Update On Open Access Discovery & Access-Related Projects

Pascal Calarco, Christine Stohn, John G. DoveCharleston Conference 2016

November 4, 2016

Agenda for Today

• NISO brief summary: who, what, why• NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee• Recent NISO D2D projects and work• ResourceSync Framework Specification• KBART Automation• Open Discovery Initiative update• Link origin tracking• Access & License Indicators• Improving Discoverability of OA Content

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

• Leadership: organization for designing standards for information (Z39.X) since 1935

• Collaboration: Professionals from information industry – publishers, content aggregators, libraries, software developers

• Neutral: a forum where parties can work together on polemicized information issues

• Standards and Recommended Practices• Education

Topic Committees

• Business Information• Content & Collection Management• Discovery to Delivery• Architecture Committee

• Thought Leader Meetings

Discovery to Delivery

• Track standards development within NISO and in other standards organizations related to the topic.

• Identify where new standards may provide solutions in their specific area.

• Convene Thought Leader meetings to incubate new standards activities.

• Create and provide guidance and oversight to standards working groups under their purview.

• Manage the five-year reaffirmation process for approved standards.

Discovery to Delivery Committee Roster

• Pascal Calarco, University of Windsor, co-Chair• Peter Murray, Index Data, co-Chair• Kristin Antelman, California Institute of Technology• Scott Bernier, EBSCO Information Systems• John Dove, Paloma & Associates• Lucy Harrison, Florida Virtual Campus• Christine Stohn, Ex Libris, A ProQuest Company• Julie Zhu, IEEE

D2D Recent work

• Improving Discoverability of OA Content (work item proposal)

• Tracking Link Origins (Working Group approved 2016-09-21)

• KBART Automation (NISO RP-9-2014 & Phase II)• ResourceSync (NISO Z39.99-2014 & draft revision)• Access License & Indicators (NISO RP-22-2015)• White paper: Future of Library Resource Discovery• Open Discovery Initiative (NISO RP-19-2014)

ResourceSync Framework Specification (ANSI/NISO Z39.99-2014)

• OAI-PMH wasn’t designed for large scale repository replication of content between repositories

• Use case examples:– Mirroring a small static museum website– Mirroring Linked Data services; HTTP GET requests slow– Mirror replication of arXiv.org: 2.6 million items, 1,600

changes daily: HTTP, rsync; not modular or open to third party replication

– Aggregating many Institutional Repositories into mega-aggregator discovery services or dark archiving needs such as Thesis Canada

ResourceSync capabilities

• Resource List: inventory of site content• Resource Dump: snapshot of ZIPed packaged

content from a site• Change List: for continued synchronization of

changes to lists and dumps• Change Dump: for multiple snapshots of

packaged bitstreams and metadata

ResourceSync via SiteMaps

• SiteMaps are common means of exposing content in a web site to search engines

• Web content made available as SiteMaps can be easily transformed into Resource Lists/Dumps, Change Lists/Dumps with extensions to SiteMaps

• SiteMaps are a great entry to using ResourceSync

Additional Specifications

• Change Notification• Framework Notification• Archives• Relation Types used with ResourceSync

Framework

Further Resources

• W3C XML Schema for validating ResourceSync extensions to SiteMap document formats

• Python and Ruby libraries for core functionality

• Google Group• Extensive free ResourceSync Tutorial Slides• Additional published papers, blog posts,

developer notes

ResourceSync Framework Specification home

• http://www.niso.org/workrooms/resourcesync/• http://www.openarchives.org/rs/toc • Also see draft revision that addresses some

<lastmod> implementation hurdles

• Please consider adopting ResourceSync if this addresses some of your content replication and synchronization challenges!

Questions?

Access all around: improving discovery and access to material with recommendations and standards

Institution

Title lists,packages

Content providers

Article (and other) metadata and full text

Holdings

Entitlements

KnowledgeBase

LinkresolverDiscovery

Databases

Websites

Full text (appropriate

copy)

Different users, different entry points

Direct links

OpenURLs

From discovery to delivery: A complex landscape with many tasks

• Information providers– Provide metadata for discovery to discovery system vendors – Provide title lists for Link resolvers to track their global offerings– Provide entitlement lists to institutions for their subscriptions

• Institutions– Localize their KnowledgeBases with their holdings– Use the KnowledgeBases to compare and manager package deals and consortia

entitlements• Discovery and Linkresolver vendors

– Index metadata for discovery from multiple information providers– Index title lists for linkresolvers for multiple providers– Provide institutions with tools to localize KnowledgeBases and discovery indexes

• All– Collect and provide usage statistics

Institution

Title lists,packages

Content providers

Article (and other) metadata and full text

Holdings

Entitlements

KnowledgeBase

LinkresolverDiscovery

Databases

Websites

Full text (appropriate

copy)

Different users, different entry points

Direct links

OpenURLs

NISO KBART - OpenURL link resolvers and their KnowledgeBases

Institution

Title lists,packages

Content providers

Article (and other) metadata and full text

Holdings

Entitlements

KnowledgeBase

LinkresolverDiscovery

Databases

Websites

Full text (appropriate

copy)

Different users, different entry points

Direct links

OpenURLs

New NISO initiative: KBART automation

NISO KBART recommendations

Goal: Increase accuracy of KnowledgeBase content (title lists and packages)

Recommendations

• Guidelines for best practice

• Easy to implement format for files to enable transfer of title lists between information and KB providers– Phase I – file formats and mandatory fields– Phase II – enhancements with specific requirements for ebooks and open access

material

Status – Phase II recommendations published in 2014– Standing committee at NISO for

• Endorsements of information providers for KBART phase II• Education

New NISO initiative: KBART automation

Goal and tasks: Produce a recommended practice that

– Optimizes the KBART format for automation– Defines automation processes for title lists for example with a

recommended protocol– Defines automation processes for transfer of institutional entitlements

(holdings lists)

Institution

Title lists,packages

Content providers

Article (and other) metadata and full text

Holdings

Entitlements

KnowledgeBase

LinkresolverDiscovery

Databases

Websites

Full text (appropriate

copy)

Different users, different entry points

Direct links

OpenURLs

NISO ODI – Open Discovery Initiative

NISO ODI – Open Discovery Initiative

Goal: Create better understanding and define and improve processes between the stakeholders

Recommended practices published in 2014 include– Metadata included in data feeds– Models for “fair” linking– Usage statistics provided by and to the stakeholders

Current status: Standing committee is tasked with stakeholder education and support, and evaluation of next steps

Institution

Title lists,packages

Content providers

Article (and other) metadata and full text

Holdings

Entitlements

KnowledgeBase

LinkresolverDiscovery

Databases

Websites

Full text (appropriate

copy)

Different users, different entry points

Direct links

OpenURLs

Ongoing NISO initiative: Link origin tracking

Ongoing NISO initiative: Link origin tracking

Focus: Ability to track platform usage by the source of incoming links

Goal: Recommendations for a format and method for passing and using link origin information and its implementation

Institution

Title lists,packages

Content providers

Article (and other) metadata and full text

Holdings

Entitlements

KnowledgeBase

LinkresolverDiscovery

Databases

Websites

Full text (appropriate

copy)

Different users, different entry points

Direct links

OpenURLs

NISO ALI – Access and License Indicators

ALI – Access and License indicators

Goal: To standardize bibliographic metadata to describe the accessibility of journal articles as well as communicate the item's license details - specifically , track open and free access

Recommendations (published 2015)

• free_to_read tag (optional with a time indication, e.g. for embargoes)

• license_reference tag referencing a URL to the license terms

Questions?

Location

Discovery Pathway

Gold OA Journals

Hybrid “Open” Articles

Submitted manuscript in

an I.R.

Article shared in Academic.edu

Article shared on Research

Gate

Article shared on a dept website

Open Monographs

Open Educational Resources

General Web Search Engine

Academic Search Engine

Library Webscale Discovery Service

Link Resolvers

Publisher Provided Links

Specialized Bibliographic Databases

Journal Aggregations

Library Catalog

Open Content Discovery Grid

Thank you!

• Pascal Calarco: pcalarco@uwindsor.ca• Christine Stohn:

Christine.stohn@exlibrisgroup.com • John G. Dove: johngdove@gmail.com