ONIX for Serials - User Guides for SOH and SPS messages
bond, UK March, 2007. EDItEUR, the international group
coordinating development of the standards infrastructure for
electronic commerce in the book and serials industries, is
pleased to announce the availability of detailed User Guides
for
the ONIX for Serials SOH and SPS message formats.
Information
about these formats can be found at
www.editeur.org/onixserials/ONIX_SOH1.0.html and
www.editeur.org/onixserials/ONIX_SPS091.html, respectively,
with
links to the new User Guides at the foot of each page.
ONIX for Serials is a family of XML formats for
communicating
information about serial products and subscription
information,
using the design principles and many of the elements defined
in
ONIX for Books.
The SOH (Serials Online Holdings) format is used for
communicating library-specific electronic serials holdings
details from publication access management systems to
libraries.
This format is in its first production release, and has been
implemented by a number of vendors, including Serials
Solutions,
EBSCO and TDNet as senders and Innovative Interfaces and
OCLC as
recipients. The SOH message is of great benefit in the
maintenance of library catalogs and other end-user
applications
such as link resolvers and A-to-Z lists, where up-to-date
and
accurate online holdings statements are needed.
The SPS (Serials Products and Subscriptions) format is used
for
communicating information about serial subscription
products,
optionally with prices and specific subscription
information.
The SPS format is still in its pilot phase, and is of use in
a
number of situations, including the transmission of price
catalogs from publishers to agents; the transmission of
price
quotes from publishers or agents to libraries; and the
transmission of a library's subscription list among
publishers,
agents and libraries.
A third format, SRN (Serials Release Notification), is used
for
communicating information about the print publication or
electronic availability of one or more serial releases. Its
User
Guide will be available in the near future. Content
suppliers,
content consumers and intermediaries will all find it
advantageous to send and/or receive Serial Release
Notifications.
Such notifications will serve to advertise the availability
of
new content, will help in minimizing unnecessary claims, and
will
make possible the automatic maintenance of precise holdings
in
online catalogs and link resolvers.
The development of ONIX for Serials has been a joint project
of
EDItEUR and NISO, the US National Information Standards
Organization. Further information about ONIX for Serials,
including the XML schemas, may be found on the EDItEUR
website
(www.editeur.org/onixserials.html).
Katharina Klemperer, MLS
Library and Information Systems Consulting
37 Minuteman Rd.
Acton, MA 01720 USA
office: 978-266-1776
mobile: 978-590-6021
kathy.klemperer verizon.net
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