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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!?!?
It’s the E-World – Why isn’t still EASY??????????????
• An Adventure Like Nothing on Earth• Get Ready. Get Set. Get Lost.
WEB 2.0
• Web 2.0
• Business 2.0
• Library 2.0
Web 2.0 - Wikipedia
A tag cloud (constructed by Markus Angermeier) presenting some of the themes of Web 2.0.
Agent 2.0 Focus
• Usability• Design• Participation = Partnership• Economy• Convergence• Remixability = Interoperability• Standardization
Brain Rules – Web 2.0
John Media, Brain Rules. Seattle, WA: Pear Press, 2008.
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.
Agent 2.0 – Gathering Data
• Database– Title Record - Added fields to record
elements– Multiple format options– Publisher profile– Account profile– Increased costs
Pricing Data
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
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
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Got Data – Need to Transfer
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
DO YOU LIKE SUSHI? Z39.93 - Standard Usage Statistical Harvesting Initiative
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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Agents need to have the flexibility
to handle all business models.
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