The JISC PALS 2 projectsOverviewBackground What is PALS?ContextPALS work on metadata and interoperabilityThe PALS 2 projectsLooking forwardFollett Report (1993) Libraries and publisher should talk to each otherJISC/PA working group (1996)Renamed PALS (Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions) when ALPSP joined (1999)Collaboration between publishers and librariesTask-oriented working groups, e.g. model licence, usage statistics (became COUNTER)Events on topics of common interestPALS Metadata and Interoperability working group (2002)Background What is PALS? PALS Metadata & Interoperability GroupPrinciplesFocus on practical work (not flag waving)Identify key standards to enable interoperability between publisher and academic environmentsFacilitate more seamless discovery and accessEncourage publishers to use JISC interoperability standardsEncourage JISC to learn from publishers and use their standardsPALS Publisher Metadata and Interoperability ProgrammesPractical approachJISC funds small projectsEach involves a publisher or aggregatorPractical outputs, e.g. tools, guidelines, schemas, case studies PALS 1 programme (2003)PALS 2 programme (2005-06)Emerald Group PublishingTOCRoSS = Tables of Contents by Really Simple SyndicationAim Develop an RSS 2.0 news feed to place journal table of contents data into a library catalogue without human interventionPartner Talis Information Ltd, University of DerbyOutputsTOCRoSS Publisher Guidelines and code so publishers can create the RSS feedsOpen source software to manage RSS feeds at the library endEDINAAIMSS = Automating Ingest of Metadata on Serial SubscriptionsAim Use ONIX for Serials SOH (Serials Online Holdings) messages to update journal holdings in the SUNCAT union cataloguePartners Serials SolutionsOutputsSerials Solutions Case studyExhaustive documentationCOUNTER Online MetricsCOUNTER Filter = Improving the Comparability of Usage StatisticsAim Develop a data filter to reduce the impact of interface effects on usage statistics and propose how it could be used by publishersOutputsUnique article filter (unique article requests in a session)Survey of current publisher practice for implementing unique article identifiersNature Publishing GroupDICTATE = Distributed Content Tagging Tool for EPrintsAim Add bookmarking and tagging features to institutional repositories running GNU EPrints by extending that software to integrate with social bookmarking services Outputs DICTATE Tagging Tool, open source plug-in for EPrints software to integrate with Connotea and del.icio.usUniversity of StrathclydeStargate = Static Repository Gateway and ToolsAimsExplore the use of static repositories as a method of exposing publisher for OAI-based disclosure, discovery, and alerting services within the JISC IE and beyond Lower the barrier for small publishersPartners Journal of Digital Information, Information Research, Information Scotland, Library & Information ResearchOutputsDemonstrator for 4 small journalsTools and guidelines that explain how to do itNational e-Science Centre, Edinburghmetadata+ = Machine Services for Metadata Discovery and AggregationAim Explore the technical aspects of providing machine services to facilitate metadata discovery and aggregation for different presentational contextsPartners Edinburgh University Library, OCLC NetLibraryOutput DemonstratorBIC Electronic Expression of Licensing Terms 1XML Expression of a Publisher/Library LicenceAim Create an ONIX for Licensing Terms (OLT) version of a real publishers licencePartners John Wiley, University of CranfieldOutputsOLT representation of the Wiley licenceTerms for the OLT DictionarySpecification of the OLT licence formatBIC Electronic Expression of Licensing Terms 2Specifying Publisher Tools and Library BenefitsAim Work with publishers and libraries to agree the benefits of mapping licences to the OLT format and specify the tools and services required to enable this Partners ALPSP, University of LoughbroughOutputsALPSP advice note on OLTLibrary workshop on benefits and issuesSpecification for tools and services neededLooking ForwardPALS 2 programme ends on 30 July 2006Synthesise outcomes to publishers, aggregators, libraries, vendors, etcMake the outputs widely availableEncourage use of the various tools and standardsConsultation about what more may be needed