Access All Around: A NISO Update On Open Access Discovery & Access-Related Projects Pascal Calarco, Christine Stohn, John G. Dove Charleston 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?

Full text (appropriate copy) Access all around: improving discovery and access to material with recommendations and standards Content providers Entitlements Article (and other) metadata and full text Title lists, packages KnowledgeBase Linkresolver Discovery Databases Websites Full text (appropriate copy) Different users, different entry points Direct links OpenURLs Holdings Institution

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

NISO KBART - OpenURL link resolvers and their KnowledgeBases Content providers Entitlements Article (and other) metadata and full text Title lists, packages KnowledgeBase Linkresolver Discovery Databases Websites Full text (appropriate copy) Different users, different entry points Direct links OpenURLs Holdings Institution

New NISO initiative: KBART automation Content providers Entitlements Article (and other) metadata and full text Title lists, packages KnowledgeBase Linkresolver Discovery Databases Websites Full text (appropriate copy) Different users, different entry points Direct links OpenURLs Holdings Institution

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)

NISO ODI – Open Discovery Initiative Content providers Entitlements Article (and other) metadata and full text Title lists, packages KnowledgeBase Linkresolver Discovery Databases Websites Full text (appropriate copy) Different users, different entry points Direct links OpenURLs Holdings Institution

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

Ongoing NISO initiative: Link origin tracking Content providers Entitlements Article (and other) metadata and full text Title lists, packages KnowledgeBase Linkresolver Discovery Databases Websites Full text (appropriate copy) Different users, different entry points Direct links OpenURLs Holdings Institution

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

NISO ALI – Access and License Indicators Content providers Entitlements Article (and other) metadata and full text Title lists, packages KnowledgeBase Linkresolver Discovery Databases Websites Full text (appropriate copy) Different users, different entry points Direct links OpenURLs Holdings Institution

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?

Open Content Discovery Grid 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

Thank you! Pascal Calarco: pcalarco@uwindsor.ca Christine Stohn: Christine.stohn@exlibrisgroup.com John G. Dove: johngdove@gmail.com