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SRN
Serials Release Notification
Onix for Serials, Joint Working Party (NISO
and Editeur)
Candy Zemon, Chair
The ONIX for Serials Family
 ONIX Serials Steering Group
 SPS (Serials Products and Subscriptions)
 Information about products or subscription
details
 SOH (Serials Online Holdings)
 Detailed online holdings
 SRN (Serials Release Notifications)
 Information about a release
What Is It?
 ONIX XML schema
 Related to ONIX for Books
 SRN assumes creation by publisher or
distributor
 SRN assumes consumption by players
in the supply chain
What Does SRN Do?
 Conveys Serials Information
 Single ISSUE and single ARTICLE
levels
 Concerned with the release of a single
issue or article
What’s In An SRN Message?
Header
Who am I, who are you, housekeeping
and identification details
Release
Description
Issue level: details about the release (type
of notice, enumeration, chronology, title,
date of release, identifiers, etc.)
Content
Item
Article level: recursive and repeatable.
Details about item(s) contained within
the release (type, status, title, extent,
language, etc.)
Use Cases
 Announce an actual or future release
 Distribute metadata for a group of
published issues/articles
 Announce pre-publication availability
of a version, or of a pre-print
 Announce a change of status in a
released issue/article
Data Elements Defined
 Guiding Principle: context of the
release notification – this is
information about a single issue or
article with sufficient information to
identify it to another system
 MARC formats and ONIX consistency
used as guides
Some Decisions
 Excludes continuing resources
 Includes serials and monographic
series
 Excludes full bibliographic description
 No lossless full-trip mapping
from/through/to MARC
 Includes publisher viewpoint,
convenience through ONIX
 Very optional in details
SRN At Work
Publisher
Union
Database
Library
PAC
ILS
Technical
Services
Aggregator
ERMS
Resource
Sharing
System
How Can I Use SRN?
 Prepublication information
 SDI, PAC display, Acquisitions update,
Electronic Resources Management
System update
 Release information
 Automated holdings update, Electronic
Resources Management System update,
union list updates
Library Uses for SRN
 Publication changes
(delayed, combined, etc.)
 Automated claiming, Electronic
Resources Management System update,
Acquisitions update, Holdings update
 Contents
 SDI, PAC display, Enhanced indexing,
Federated search access
More Uses for SRN
 Marketing information
 Reviews, jacket blurbs, biographies,
excerpts – all fodder for PAC access
 Distribution information
 Size, weight, format can be used for
resource sharing application decisions
A Little History of SRN
 Work started as early as 2002
 Issue Level (2004 - 2006)
 0.9 Version for Trial Use
 Article Level (mid-2006 to present)
 Final documentation being prepared
What Is Its Status?
 Version 0.91
 Supporting documentation under
development
 Was piloted in a TALIS/Emerald TOC
project
Learn More
 Editeur site http://www.editeur.org/
 NISO site http://www.niso.org/
 SRN wiki
http://swiki.fcla.edu:8000/SRN/1
 [email protected]
Thank you