the future – what needs to happen? the publisher view ed pentz executive director, crossref...
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The future – what needs to happen? The publisher view
Ed PentzExecutive Director, CrossRef
Discovery and access: standards and the information chain, London, 7th December
2006
Why standards?
• Cliff and others summed it up well….
• Standards are valuable to publishers if:– They cut costs and make things easier– They help improve products and services– Enable publishers to do something they
couldn’t do before– Aren’t too difficult to implement
Traditionally
• Publishers and libraries have had different standards as a result of different goals– Publishers focused on supply chain/commerce (ISBN)– Libraries focused on collection development/
cataloging (ISSN)
• Now it’s all about access and efficiently exchanging content, product, trading and licensing data
• Collaboration is essential
Web Services
• New Internet/Web services/standards rapidly developing
• Largely outside the control of publishers or libraries
• Huge opportunities for scholarly communications to build on top of them so….
• How they get applied is crucial• URI, HTTP, XML, RSS, AJAX• OAI-PMH, SRW/SRU, ONIX all make heavy use
of web standards
Standards Development
• Top down vs bottom up – a little of both?– Lessons: BICI/SICI/PII, ISTC, OpenURL 0.1
to 1.0?
• KISS – Keep it Simple, Stupid
• Must deal with complexity - Albert Einstein "everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler"
Specific points
• Good quality metadata drives everything• Must have unique, persistent IDs for
content at all levels - article/chapter up to book/journal (DOIs)
• Must have machine readable holdings data, product data, licensing data and rights data (ONIX)
• Must make access seamless for users• PLEASE – USE DOIs in OpenURLs!!
Focus on End Users
• Focus on better discoverability and accessibility
• Enable users to get to authoritative, appropriate content in one or two clicks without any hassle
• Otherwise….GYM(AI) will take over
PublisherLibrarian?