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www.scholinfo.com
Scholarly Information Strategies Ltdconsultants in scholarly publishing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Licence
Link Resolvers and the Serials Supply Chain
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Scholarly Information Strategies Ltdconsultants in scholarly publishing
The OpenURL standard
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How OpenURL linking works
A&I database Publisher site
Article/chapter
Journal issue
Title homepageKB
OpenURL Link-to Syntax
Link Resolver’s Service Menu
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UKSG-funded study See: www.uksg.org/resolvers.asp Tenders invited in July 2006 Work underway mid-September Final report due end January 2007 Approach: interviews with stakeholders in the
supply chain What is the current data flow? What is not working well? What action is needed? And from whom? Short-term/practical focus
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Current knowledge base data flow
Publishers/Content Hosts
Subscription Agents
Link Resolver Vendor*
Master KB
Vendor Hosted
Resolver
Library Hosted
Resolver
Library
Content packages
Pull
Push
Pull
Push Internal
Library Systems
Holdings / subs files
Requested by library
or
either
Requested by library
* There are a number of resolver vendors building their own proprietary KBs for the market
DRAFT
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(Some) knowledge base issues
Poor quality data from publishers/content hosts Variations in acquired content packages Lack of awareness of data need/purpose Frequency of KB updates Lack of adherence to a common standard for
supply of holdings data Lack of inbound URL linking standard
…new problems and manual effort as a result of uptake of resolver technology by libraries
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Relevance of information standards
No conclusions yet! But…
Potential of ONIX for holdings/title data? Machine-to-machine harvesting of ONIX files? Identifiers for content packages? Lessons from COUNTER?
A visible benchmark, raising general awareness Potential for ‘codes of practice’ for content providers
and others in the supply chain
