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SRN. Serials Release Notification Onix for Serials, Joint Working Party (NISO and Editeur) Candy Zemon, Chair. The ONIX for Serials Family. ONIX Serials Steering Group SPS (Serials Products and Subscriptions) Information about products or subscription details SOH (Serials Online Holdings)
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SRN Serials Release Notification Onix for Serials, Joint Working Party (NISO and Editeur) Candy Zemon, Chair
The ONIX for Serials Family • ONIX Serials Steering Group • SPS (Serials Products and Subscriptions) • Information about products or subscription details • SOH (Serials Online Holdings) • Detailed online holdings • SRN (Serials Release Notifications) • Information about a release
What Is It? • ONIX XML schema • 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? • 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? Who am I, who are you, housekeeping and identification details Header Issue level: details about the release (type of notice, enumeration, chronology, title, date of release, identifiers, etc.) Release Description Article level: recursive and repeatable. Details about item(s) contained within the release (type, status, title, extent, language, etc.) Content Item
Use Cases • 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 • 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 • 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 Aggregator Union Database Library PAC ERMS Resource Sharing System ILS Technical Services
How Can I Use SRN? • Prepublication information • SDI, PAC display, Acquisitions update, Electronic Resources Management System update • Release information • Automated holdings update, Electronic Resources Management System update, union list updates
Library Uses for SRN • Publication changes(delayed, combined, etc.) • Automated claiming, Electronic Resources Management System update, Acquisitions update, Holdings update • Contents • SDI, PAC display, Enhanced indexing, Federated search access
More Uses for SRN • Marketing information • Reviews, jacket blurbs, biographies, excerpts – all fodder for PAC access • Distribution information • Size, weight, format can be used for resource sharing application decisions
A Little History of SRN • Work started as early as 2002 • Issue Level (2004 - 2006) • 0.9 Version for Trial Use • Article Level (mid-2006 to present) • Final documentation being prepared
What Is Its Status? • Version 0.91 • Supporting documentation under development • Was piloted in a TALIS/Emerald TOC project
Learn More • 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