Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Standards and Interoperability Alan Hopkinson Middlesex University

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Standards relating to the RFID tag ×Standards which govern the circulation protocols 3M’s SIP2 and NCIP (NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP-Z39.83).

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Benefits of standardisation Interoperability Avoid Reinventing the wheel --Good ‘model’ data model --More data there is on the tag the longer it takes to write to the tag, and the longer it takes to read the tag

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Middlesex University applications (1) Circulation at the counter Self service circulation Stock checking with the wand Searching for lost or reserved books (wand) Use only the identifier

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Middlesex University applications (2) Security gate alarm uses the security bit Circulation sets or resets security bit

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY RFID for Libraries Brevity on the tag may be important

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Interoperability Different requirements in different contexts

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Interoperability for UK Different library management systems process different RFID Read 12345X not ABCDE& (for example) Radio Frequency: megahertz Hold enough data

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Interoperability in Denmark Used for interlibrary loan Compatibility between borrowing and lending libraries’ systems

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Interoperability for all systems Ability to replace LMS Ability to replace RFID hardware BUT keep the same tags

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY ‘Media’ use Check that a set of items is complete Book with accompanying CD Boxed kit Standard methodology of achieving this required

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Other interoperability issues Prevent tags from setting off alarms in wrong environments Supply chain tagging Book supplier’s warehouse Common pads and software

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY All these requirements can only be achieved by standards..

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY International Organization for Standardization Committee ISO/TC 46/SC 4 Working Group for RFID in Libraries Moved by Danish Standards “Danish Model” ×Not an international standard

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY RFID standards mean standardizing processes Developing a standard for RFID is taking longer than had been originally hoped We would still be in the same position now as four years ago!

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Book Industry Communication (BIC) Bind RFID tag into each book Include ISBN + Copy number

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Libraries need more than just ID Security bit on tag overcomes delays on the network at the security gate Tags bound into the books might interfere with other tags for other requirements BUT proposal was rejected by publishers

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Danish Standards Danish Model includes: Data Elements Values Encoding Physical Mapping

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Extra requirements AFI (application family identifier) Air Interface (includes frequency) Fixed length encoding v. using data field identifiers ISO standard 15962

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY ISO will be divided into three parts: General requirements and data elements Encoding based on ISO/IEC Fixed length encoding

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Application Family Identifier (AFI) EDItEUR, NISO (US) and Danish Standards applied to the appropriate ISO Committee AFI value C2 (hexadecimal) “Item is a library item” In security systems it means out for loan AFI value ”07” In library’s security system not to be taken out

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Privacy and Security To have NO standard is safest!

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Using standard: Read the tag Identify the library See the name of the borrower ??? Personal data should never be placed on a tag

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Security Inability to change the data on the tag (for vandalism or to steal the book) Encryption to prohibit decoding Locking so that the data cannot be changed

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Privacy and Security An RFID for Libraries standard needs to address the issues and refer to other standards as necessary

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY RFID in libraries needs standards Pioneers in an emerging technology!

Tuesday 13 November The QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BYMEDIA SPONSORS PRESENTED BY Thank you for your attention!