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The future – what needs to happen? The publisher view. Ed Pentz Executive Director, CrossRef Discovery and access: standards and the information chain, London, 7 th December 2006. Why standards?. Cliff and others summed it up well…. Standards are valuable to publishers if:
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The future – what needs to happen? The publisher view Ed Pentz Executive 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 Publisher Librarian? • 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