1. Primary funding is provided by the JISC and ESRC. Based at Manchester Computing, The University of Manchester. 1 1 OpenURL & COinS Ross MacIntyre MIMAS The University of Manchester

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3. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 3 Ye Olde Linking Link Source Link Destination Link. Resource Resolution of Links Provision of Links Oren Beit-Arie, ExLibris

4. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 4 OpenURL (v0.1) format ::= Base URL ? Query Base-URL = web address of the link resolver i.e. the address to which the OpenURL is being sent http://LinkFinderPlus.library.edu/?genre=article&issn=1234 -5678&volume=12&issue=3&spage=1&epage=8 &date=1998&aulast=Smith&aufirst=Paul Query = the metadata that the link resolver uses to identify and link to appropriate targets

5. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 5 OpenURL linking Link Source OpenURL. Resource Service Component Resolver/Link Server Provision of Hooks Resolution into Links Context Sensitive Link Destination Link Link Destination Link Link Destination Link Link Destination Link Hook Appropriate Oren Beit-Arie, ExLibris Router

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8. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 8 ‘Are we there yet?’ OpenURL Sources What’s wanted? Below supplied by SMUG-UKI 28/11/05: LexisNexis Professional & Academic Westlaw IEE Digital Library & IEE Explore Scitation Research Alerts Construction & Building Abstracts Foodline Web ABELL Factiva Metapress (covering T&F, Springer, etc), Sage, Highwire – “as these are searchable sites which include titles we don’t subscribe to electonically, but may have print subscriptions.” http://www.sfxit.com/

9. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 9 ‘Are we there yet?’ OpenURL Targets What’s wanted? Below supplied by SMUG- UKI: –WestLaw –LexisNexis –Early English Books Online –Business Insights –DIALOG –Oxford Reference –LION - (e-books) –Taylor & Francis ebooks Targets currently in the (SFX) Knowledge Base but without article level linking: –IEEE Xplore Journals –Thomas Telford Journals –Chadwyck Literature Online –Walter de Gruyter Publishing –Times Higher Education Supplement

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13. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 13 OpenURL Framework ANSI/NISO Z39.88-2004 Goals: –Formally address shortcomings (of v0.1) –Controlled evolution –Ensure wider acceptance Outcome: –Defines the general framework for bundling contextual metadata and introduces concepts of: ContextObject Formats and other elements and contextual entities –Defines the Registry –Defines the notion of Community Profiles Oliver Pesch EBSCO

14. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 14 The “ContextObject” contains… ServiceType Referent Resolver ReferringEntity Referrer Requester Administrative Version control, character encodings, timestamp, etc. Item being referenced. E.G. bibliographic reference in full text article. “User” making the request Service creating the link. E.G. where the user found the reference. The item which contains the reference. E.G. the article in which the bibliographic reference was found. The target of the link. E.G. the link server of the user’s institution The desired services from the Resolver. E.G. Full text, ILL, Abstract, etc. Oliver Pesch EBSCO

15. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 15 Novel Uses for ContextObject Endorsed for bibliographic citation by DCMI NISO Metasearch Initiative Latent OpenURLs –COinS -> Wikipedia, Citebase, COPAC, BL’s Zetoc… –Harvesting COinS via OAI-PMH? RSS

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20. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 20 Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC: “Everything is in 3 generations” Gen 1 –Z39.50, ISO-ILL –S2S –Library niche Gen 2 –OpenURL, OAI-PMH, SRU, … –B2B –Web services idiom Gen 3 –Leverage G2 infrastructure: lightweight services on top of SRU/OpenURL/OAI –COinS –Bridges to generic approaches and desktop frameworks RSS Bookmarklets... O'Reilly, T. (2005). Microformats epithets: ‘Solve specific problems’ ‘Evolutionary improvements’ ‘Reuse rather than reinvent’ ‘Modularity & embeddability’ ‘Presentable & parsable’ ‘As simple as possible’ ‘Adapt to current behaviour’ ‘Reuse schema from well- supported standards’

21. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 21 URL Evolution Static & proprietary Predicatable & parameterised Persistent (Publisher-controlled) OpenURL prototype->standard ContextObject: Locator -> Identifier Pre-coordination->Post-coordination

22. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 22 Thank you email: ross.macintyre@manchester.ac.uk web: http://www.mimas.ac.uk/ Q?

23. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 23 Stakeholder #1 - Readers “Give it me now” Expectation of direct connection Simple & consistent interface Usability & utility –Eason: ‘Ready-to-hand’ (Heidegger) –Mooer: ‘More painful to not have than to get’ –Zipf: ‘Least effort’

24. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 24 Stakeholder #2 - Libraries Direct users to highest quality resources ↑ Access ≡ ↑ ROI (Discuss) Library branding ‘Backroom’ benefits Meeting user expectations Extension of library itself Frank Cervone, Computers in Libraries, Oct2005, Vol. 25 Issue 9, p10, Publisher: Information Today.

25. OpenURL & COinS SRU Workshop March 2006 25 Stakeholder #3 – Publishers “Why help readers leave?!” Market requirement –Critical customer requirement –Competitive pressure Competitive cooperation for mutual benefit (e.g.CrossRef) Reduce/remove onus for linking Streamline linking infrastructure 2 nd ary Publishers © 2005 Mark Lentczner and John Horigan.