NISO Open Discovery Initiative - Survey report now available

[Ken Varnum]

(with apologies for cross-posting)


The Open Discovery Initiative (ODI), a volunteer work group within the
National Information Standards Organization (NISO), was formed to develop a
recommended practice related to the index-based discovery services for
libraries. The ODI aims to investigate and improve the ecosystem
surrounding these discovery services, with a goal of broader participation
of content providers and increased transparency to libraries. The ODI
working group was formed in late 2011 and held its first meeting in January
2012.


This fall, the ODI dispatched a survey of librarians, content providers,
and discovery service providers to learn more about the current state of
satisfaction with these new research tools and to measure the value of
various requirements in cross-sector practice. The survey addressed current
levels of scholarly metadata delivery / indexing, technical successes /
opportunities in these data exchanges, and potential benefits of greater
development / distribution of discovery tool usage data.  A request to
participate in the survey was sent to this mailing list.  Many thanks for
your input if you participated!


*The report from this survey is now available via the NISO ODI page at **
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/* <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/>-
please note that the full set of recommendations from the ODI Working Group
is still underway and will be available in draft form for comment a few
months from now.


Survey findings and analysis are provided in detail in this report, which
is organized by type of respondent. Each constituency was posed with a
range of 5-15 questions on similar topics, customized to address the
specific factors that characterize or impact each sector. It is important
to note that not all questions were required for completion of the survey,
so some items were left unanswered by some respondents.


Following the survey exercise, the ODI will be tasked with developing
recommendations for consideration by the wider NISO community. The
conclusion of this survey report outlines those next steps in greater
detail. If you are interested in keeping up to date with ODI, please sign
up to our Interest mailing list: http://www.niso.org/lists/opendiscovery.


Sincerely,

ODI Working Group

odi at niso.org

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Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann
Arbor
varnum at umich.edu | @varnum | http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum |
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