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Agent 2.0: Channeling in E-Space ASIDIC Fall 2008 Meeting Salem, Massachusetts Tina Feick, Director of Sales www.harrassowitz.de. Easy!. Complex!?!?. An Adventure Like Nothing on Earth Get Ready. Get Set. Get Lost. It’s the E-World – Why isn’t still EASY??????????????. Challenges –
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Agent 2.0: Channeling in E-Space ASIDIC Fall 2008 Meeting Salem, Massachusetts Tina Feick, Director of Sales www.harrassowitz.de
An Adventure Like Nothing on Earth Get Ready. Get Set. Get Lost. It’s the E-World – Why isn’t still EASY?????????????? Challenges – Extra Layer of E-Complexity
WEB 2.0 • Web 2.0 • Business 2.0 • Library 2.0 Agent 2.0
A tag cloud (constructed by Markus Angermeier) presenting some of the themes of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 - Wikipedia
Usability Design Participation = Partnership Economy Convergence Remixability = Interoperability Standardization Agent 2.0 Focus
Brain Rules – Web 2.0 Rule #4 – We don’t pay attention to boring things – No such thing as multitasking!! Rule #3 – Every brain is wired differently – Experience makes the difference. Rule #12 - We are powerful and natural explorers – Curiosity is everything! Rule #7 – Sleep well, think well. John Media, Brain Rules. Seattle, WA: Pear Press, 2008.
Agent 2.0 – Gathering Data • Database • Title Record - Added fields to record elements • Multiple format options • Publisher profile • Account profile • Increased costs
All formats – print, P&E, e-only All types – e-journals, databases, e-books Subscriptions, backfiles, packages DDP – Deep Discounted Pricing Tracking Thousands of Prices – All Over the Map!! Changing pricing policies Our World is FULL of Spreadsheets Pricing Data
Services for Libraries • TRADITIONAL • Online Database, Management Reports, EDI Invoicing & Claiming, Bibligraphic Updates • BEYOND TRADITIONAL FOR LIBRARIES • Aggregation – e-platforms • A-Z e-journal title list programs • Open URL resolvers • Mini ERM systems • License Banks • Federated Searching • Consortia Services • Usage Statistics
Interoperability Requires www.niso.org Standards! “A large stick or cudgel, used by the lightly more anal-retentive to beat the slightly less anal-retentive.” – The Devil’s Dictionary 2.0 Got Data – Need to Transfer
DO YOU LIKE SUSHI?Z39.93 - Standard Usage Statistical Harvesting Initiative
SUSHI - What it is? • What it is: • A web-services model for requesting data • Replaces the user’s need to download files from vendor’s website • A request for data where the response includes COUNTER data • Using COUNTER’s schema • Load into ERM Systems • What it isn’t: • A model for counting usage statistics • A usage consolidation application www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi
SUSHI ARCHITECTURE • Library’s consolidation client system requests a usage report • SUSHI client makes the request • SUSHI server processes request • SUSHI server prepares COUNTER report • SUSHI server “packages” and returns response • SUSHI client processes COUNTER report
COUNTER & SUSHI • 21 Consolidators/Publishers committed to implement version 1.5 of SUSHI. (2 implemented now; 4 to earlier versions) • COUNTER 3 (Journals and Databases) just announced • Includes SUSHI • Compliance by August 2009 • Extended • Revised XML Extended schema • Consortium reports • www.projectcounter.org
I2 (Institutional Identifier) • Standard identifier for each institution • Same identifier to be used across publishers and agents • Define hierarchies and combinations (consortia) • www.niso.org/workrooms/i2
SERU Recommended Practice (RP) • Shared E-resources Understanding • NISO RP-7-2008 • Common understanding between publishers/platforms and libraries • 22 publishers, 48 libraries • www.niso.org/workrooms/seru NEW INITIATIVE – with EDItEUR – www.editeur.org • ONIX PL (Publisher’s License) – extension of License Expression Working Group - To load license elements into ERM
Agents Supporting Libraries & Partnering with Content Providers Back to BRAIN RULES for 2.0 Agents can multitask. Agents have the experience. Agents have the staff to explore options. Agents work while you sleep so everyone can think well! ------- Agents need to have the flexibility to handle all business models.
THANK YOU! Agent 2.0 ------------- Tina Feick tfeick@ottosvc.com