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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THANK YOU!

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Agent 2.0 -------------

Tina Feick

tfeick@ottosvc.com