25 June 2019
The NISO Open Discovery Initiative Standing Committee have started work related to the Recommended Practice revision process. The starting point for the revision process is information gathering, and work this spring has gone into designing surveys for three stakeholder groups: libraries, content providers, and discovery service providers.
Wide participation in the Libraries Survey is needed to ensure the revised recommended practice reflects current discovery practices. This survey will be available until 19 July 2019. It is possible to preview the survey questions using the pdf linked on the survey welcome screen.
Survey questions will inform revision in the following areas:
- library responsibilities in ODI
- handling of open access content including hybrid OA content
- more meaningful usage statistics for content providers
- fair linking
- identifying the source of the record in the discovery interface
- content coverage disclosure (reporting on discovery service content at a collection level)
- identification of additional metadata and content elements
More details about these are available in the full work item proposal. Summary results from the surveys will be made available in an appendix to the revised Recommend Practice.