1. 1 ONIX Serials Standards Update Forum ONIX for Serials Kathy Klemperer EDItEUR ALA, New Orleans, June 25, 2006

2. 2 ONIX for Serials What is ONIX for Serials? Background Process (JWP) Formats and status Expected deliverables Ongoing activities Changes in JWP administration Contacts & resources

3. 3 What is ONIX for Serials? “a family of XML formats for communicating information about serial products and subscription information”

4. 4 Background 1999-ONIX for Books success 2002Editeur sample formats 2002 NISO White Paper 2002-NISO/Editeur JWP 2003-Development of formats

5. 5 Process (JWP) Business cases  Format subgroups Pilots & publication Early attention to underlying concepts: –Definitions (subscription product, work, manifestation, hosted collection…) –Identifiers for the above, and for parties too

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7. 7 Formats and status SOH (online holdings) SPS (products and subscriptions) SRN (release notification) [Coverage statement] [Article-level SRN] [ONIX for license terms]

8. 8 SOH – Serials Online Holdings Conveys holdings information from suppliers or intermediaries to subscribing organizations. Two messages (by host, by title) Piloting of version 1 complete Version 1.0 in production (Sept 2005) Currently in use

9. 9 SPS – Serials products and subscriptions Conveys information about subscription products, optionally with prices, subscription info (4 messages) Version 0.91 published (April 2006) Pilots announced, not completed

10. 10 SRN – Serials Release Notification Conveys information about the publication or electronic availability of serial releases Version 0.91 published (April 2006) Pilots announced, not completed

11. 11 Article-level SRN Will include article metadata for serial releases Currently in development with some business partners Pilot projects needed Not yet published

12. 12 Coverage statement A structure to express detailed enumeration and chronology for holdings or coverage of serial versions Draft version awaiting review, not yet published Will be incorporated into SOH & SPS

13. 13 ONIX for license terms Supports the communication of license terms from one party to another Suitable for loading into an ERMS and other uses Currently in development and review; in conjunction with DLF/ERMI. LEWG. Mapping to/from ERMI list of terms Tools for producing & reading OLT format

14. 14 Expected deliverables For each format: XML Schema Outline specification (overview) Detailed user guide For ONIX for Serials in general: ONIX for Serials Glossary ONIX code lists (eye-readable)

15. 15 Ongoing activities Completion of documentation Completion of piloting! (SPS & SRN) Revisions based on pilot experiences and publication of version 1.0 SRN article-level format

16. 16 Changes in JWP administration JWP itself now replaced by steering committee, chaired by Brian Green (director of EDItEUR) Format teams now inactive, except SRN Communication now takes place on 2 lists: info & implementers

17. 17 Contacts & information www.editeur.org/onixserials.html Mailing list instructions found at bottom of web page www.editeur.org/onix_licensing.h tml www.niso.org Brian Green (brian@bic.org.uk)