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freedom by design
Link Resolvers Explained
Matt GoldnerFretwell-Downing, Inc.
freedom by design
Cooperation needed
NISO MetaSearch Intitiative NISO/EDItEUR joint working party for
exchange of serials subscription information
Vendor to Vendor relations
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NISO MetaSearch
Content providers, library management system vendors, federated search interface vendors
Workshop in Denver last May with six working groups.
freedom by design
MetaSearch: Six groups
Meta Search Id Access Management Collection Descriptions Search Options Result Set Meta-Data Statistics
freedom by design
Record meta-data
Content providers send citation data in proprietary ways
Each must be parsed by separate rules
Same citation will link from one system but not another
freedom by design
freedom by design
Record meta-data
User knows citation and wishes to fill in a form to find e-copy of article
Found we needed control over the form to get good links
First identify proper title level information
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freedom by design
freedom by design
Record meta-data
The OpenURL which the Link Resolver builds can only be as good as the meta-data provided by the source.
freedom by design
NISO/EDItEUR
PAMS to Libraries Subgroup:
Developing XML schema to standardize the format and content of information used to populate and localize the link resolver's knowledge base
freedom by design
NISO/EDItEUR
Pilot being done with Serials Solutions and III
Will be important that serials information management services can output the schema and link resolvers can load it.
freedom by design
Vendor to Vendor Relations
We are moving further into a interoperable world each year
Vendors have new awareness that changes in their systems effect customers in new ways
Standards help solve the problem Free low of information is critical as
vendors adopt new standards and implement new features