Presentation by Pascal Calarco (University of Windsor), Christine Stohn (Ex Libris/ProQuest), John G. Dove (Paloma Associates), covering NISO D2D work, ResourceSync, KBART and KBART automation, ODI (Open Discovery Initiative), Link origin tracking, ALI (Access and License Indicators), and a discussion around improvements and challenges for open access discovery

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 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)

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
• 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!

15. Questions?

16. 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
Linkresolver
Discovery
Databases
Websites
Full text
(appropriate
copy)
Different
users,
different
entry points
Direct links
OpenURLs

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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

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