SRN Serials Release Notification Onix for Serials, Joint Working Party (NISO and Editeur) Candy Zemon, Chair

The ONIX for Serials Family  ONIX Serials Steering Group SPS (Serials Products and Subscriptions)  Information about products or subscription details SOH (Serials Online Holdings)  Detailed online holdings SRN (Serials Release Notifications)  Information about a release

What Is It?  ONIX XML schema Related to ONIX for Books  SRN assumes creation by publisher or distributor  SRN assumes consumption by players in the supply chain

What Does SRN Do?  Conveys Serials Information  Single ISSUE and single ARTICLE levels  Concerned with the release of a single issue or article

What’s In An SRN Message? Header Release Description Content Item Who am I, who are you, housekeeping and identification details Issue level: details about the release (type of notice, enumeration, chronology, title, date of release, identifiers, etc.) Article level: recursive and repeatable. Details about item(s) contained within the release (type, status, title, extent, language, etc.)

Use Cases  Announce an actual or future release  Distribute metadata for a group of published issues/articles  Announce pre-publication availability of a version, or of a pre-print  Announce a change of status in a released issue/article

Data Elements Defined  Guiding Principle: context of the release notification – this is information about a single issue or article with sufficient information to identify it to another system  MARC formats and ONIX consistency used as guides

Some Decisions  Excludes continuing resources  Includes serials and monographic series  Excludes full bibliographic description  No lossless full-trip mapping from/through/to MARC  Includes publisher viewpoint, convenience through ONIX  Very optional in details

SRN At Work Publisher Aggregator Library PAC ERMS Union Database Resource Sharing System ILS Technical Services

How Can I Use SRN?  Prepublication information SDI, PAC display, Acquisitions update, Electronic Resources Management System update  Release information Automated holdings update, Electronic Resources Management System update, union list updates

Library Uses for SRN  Publication changes (delayed, combined, etc.) Automated claiming, Electronic Resources Management System update, Acquisitions update, Holdings update  Contents SDI, PAC display, Enhanced indexing, Federated search access

More Uses for SRN  Marketing information Reviews, jacket blurbs, biographies, excerpts – all fodder for PAC access  Distribution information Size, weight, format can be used for resource sharing application decisions

A Little History of SRN  Work started as early as 2002  Issue Level ( ) 0.9 Version for Trial Use  Article Level (mid-2006 to present) Final documentation being prepared

What Is Its Status?  Version 0.91  Supporting documentation under development  Was piloted in a TALIS/Emerald TOC project

Learn More  Editeur site  NISO site  SRN wiki  Thank you