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Standards, Protocols & Technology

Industry standards are constantly evolving and being replaced with new ones that incorporate the needs of changing technologies and practice. The complexity of online publishing requires interoperable systems and sophisticated delivery of information - and the need for standards across the industry has never been greater.

Except for links to ALPSP resources on this website, the links below are to external websites and will open a new window in the browser.

KBART and OpenURL
KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) is a working group established by UKSG aned NISO in January 2008 to investiate ways of raising awareness of OpenURL and of establishing and promoting standards for metadata supply
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Articles & Reports
UKSG Report on Link Resolvers
A 2006 report of a study to identify information exchange requirements and standards.
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Guidelines
ICOLC Guidelines for Statistical Measures of Usage of Web-Based Information Resources
International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) revised guidelines (September 2006). Designed for consortia administrators they endorse the use of COUNTER.
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NFAIS Best Practices for Publishing Journal Articles
A short guide from the National Federation of Advanced Information Services to tackle the problem of article/journal identification when journals are publishing article-by-article.
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PLUS (the Picture Licensing Universal System)
PLUS is a cooperative initiative established in 2008 to standardise metadata and licence agreements for illustrations.
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Projects
Vocabulary Mapping Framework
A JISC-funded project launched in 2009 to establish an ontology in which different terms from controlled vocabularies in content-related metadata standards can be mapped together to allow semantic enhancements.
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Websites
BIC standards for e-commerce between book publishers, booksellers and libraries
BIC (Book Industry Communication) papers and standards for the Book Industry, such as XML standards for ecommerce, bibliographic data sharing, licensing and other rights. ONIX (created with the Editeur group) is one of the most well-known group of standards.
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Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
The DOI System is used to provide current information, including where objects (or information about them) can be found on the Internet. Within academic and research publishing, the organization responsible for managing DOIs is Crossref.
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Dublin Core Metdata Initiative
An initiative to develop interoperable standards for exchange of information.
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Green Press Initiative
Website promoting environmentally-acceptable paper use in the print industry.
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ISBN
International Standard Book Number System for Books, Software, Mixed Media etc. The site also includes an ISBN-13 convertor, and for FAQs on the ISBN, see the ISBN FAQ page.
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ISSN and ISSN-L
International Standard Serial Number - the identifier for serial publications - is overseen by the international ISSN agency, and managed regionally by national agencies - for example the British Library in the UK. Note: a new standard, ISSN-L, has been developed to manage the identification of a serial, regardless of its medium (print, etc.)
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NISO (National Information Standards Organization)
Authoratative site on standards.
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Open Archives Initiative
The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.
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OpenURL
The OpenURL standard enables a user who has retrieved an article citation, for example, to obtain immediate access to the "most appropriate" copy of that object through the implementation of extended linking services.
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SISAC Encoding System
Bar code system to code SICI identifiers.
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xISBN (Web service)
Web service to retrieve a list of International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) associated with a submitted ISBN, based on WorldCat information.
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