SRN Serials Release Notification Onix for Serials Joint

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

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

What Is It? o ONIX XML schema n o o 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? o o o 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 Who am I, who are you, housekeeping and identification details Release Description Issue level: details about the release (type of notice, enumeration, chronology, title, date of release, identifiers, etc. ) Content Item Article level: recursive and repeatable. Details about item(s) contained within the release (type, status, title, extent, language, etc. )

Use Cases o o 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 o o 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 o o o 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 Union Database Library PAC ILS Technical Services Aggregator ERMS Resource Sharing System

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

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

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

A Little History of SRN o o Work started as early as 2002 Issue Level (2004 - 2006) n o 0. 9 Version for Trial Use Article Level (mid-2006 to present) n Final documentation being prepared

What Is Its Status? o o o Version 0. 91 Supporting documentation under development Was piloted in a TALIS/Emerald TOC project

Learn More o o Editeur site http: //www. editeur. org/ NISO site http: //www. niso. org/ SRN wiki http: //swiki. fcla. edu: 8000/SRN/1 Candy. zemon@polarislibrary. com Thank you