[jats-list] [ANN] NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on Exchanging Serial Content

Subject: [jats-list] [ANN] NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on Exchanging Serial Content
From: "Randall, Laura (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E] laura.randall@xxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 12:52:32 -0000
If you were at JATS-Con, this is the RP for serial content exchange I
mentioned in the Open Session. JATS is one of the suggested metadata formats.

Laura
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Laura Randall
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NCBI/NLM/NIH

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From: NISO Announce <niso-announce@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 5:32 PM
Subject: NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on Exchanging Serial Content
To: NISO Announce <niso-announce@xxxxxxxx>

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the
publication of a new recommended practice, Protocol for Exchanging Serial
Content (PESC) (NISO RP-23-2015), which provides guidance on the best way to
manage the elements of digital serial content packaging in a manner that aids
both the content provider and the content recipient in understanding what has
been delivered and received.

"Many diverse organizations-such as publishers, content aggregators, archives,
and indexing services- exchange and work with the heterogeneous digital files
that make up serial content," states Kimberly A. Tryka, Research Data
Librarian, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Co-chair
of the NISO PESC Working Group. "Organizations that exchange serial content
know that lack of consistency in packaging and describing the items being
exchanged leads to frustration and inefficiency. The PESC recommended practice
is intended to inform members of the scholarly information community about
preferred practices for packaging and exchanging serial content which can
enable the creation of better automated processes to receive and manage serial
content."

"Use cases including a diverse array of actors helped map out the complex
ecosystem in which the exchange of serial content occurs," explains Leslie
Johnston, Director of Digital Preservation, National Archives and Records
Administration and Co-chair of the NISO PESC Working Group.  "The PESC
recommended practice includes guidance to communicate about the package
itself, a manifest document, folder structure for the content of the package,
and package format. There are also examples of three various conformance
levels, which are intended to communicate various levels of exchange between
organizations. These demonstrate the flexibility of PESC to be suitable for
use in assorted situations between parties. The recommendations include advice
for maximizing the effectiveness of the recommendations, and detailed examples
of packages and an FAQ included in the document's appendices should also help
practical adoption of PESC. This could additionally serve as a model for the
interchange of other forms of electronic content."

"By following these recommendations, exchanging organizations can clearly
communicate more systematically what content has been transmitted, how it is
organized, and what processing is required when a new package is received,"
comments Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. "We are pleased to publish
the collaborative product of another successful Working Group. As we have done
with other initiatives, NISO will create a Standing Committee that will
provide maintenance, education, and outreach for PESC."

Protocol for Exchanging Serial Content (PESC) (NISO RP-23-2015) is available
for free download from the PESC Working Group webpage on the NISO website at
www.niso.org/workrooms/pesc/ .

Nettie Lagace
NISO Associate Director for Programs
nlagace@xxxxxxxx

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