1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Topic Committees Business Information Content & Collection Management
Discovery to Delivery
Architecture Committee
Thought Leader Meetings

5. 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.

6. 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

7. D2D Recent work
Improving Discoverability of OA Content (work item proposal)
Tracking Link Origins (Working Group approved )
KBART Automation (NISO RP & Phase II)
ResourceSync (NISO Z & draft revision)
Access License & Indicators (NISO RP )
White paper: Future of Library Resource Discovery
Open Discovery Initiative (NISO RP )

8. 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

9. 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

11. 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

12. Additional Specifications
Change Notification
Framework Notification
Archives
Relation Types used with ResourceSync Framework

13. 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

14. ResourceSync Framework Specification home
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!

15. Questions?

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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)

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. Questions?

29. 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

30. Thank you! Pascal Calarco: pcalarco@uwindsor.ca
Christine Stohn:
John G. Dove: