[nfais-l] NISO Recommended Practice Related to SUSHI

[Jill O'Neill]

NISO Recommended Practice on Test Modes for SUSHI Servers Issued for Trial
Use

Guidelines Will Aid in Faster Development of SUSHI Clients to Harvest Usage
Statistics

 

Baltimore, MD, August 1, 2011 - The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) announces the availability of the recommended practice
Providing a Test Mode for SUSHI Servers (NISO RP-13-201x) for a trial use
period ending January 31, 2012. The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting
Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol is a NISO standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2007) that
automates the retrieval of COUNTER usage statistics by libraries. The
process of developing a SUSHI client requires testing against the SUSHI
servers where usage data is expected to be harvested. The new Recommended
Practice describes how content providers should provide access to their
SUSHI Servers in a test mode so that clients can be set up easier and
faster, which is of benefit to both libraries and content providers.

 

"We have seen a tremendous surge in the adoption of the SUSHI standard,
especially since it became a requirement for compliance with Release 3 of
the COUNTER Code of Practice," states Oliver Pesch, Chief Strategist for
E-Resource Access and Management Services at EBSCO Information Services and
Chair of the NISO SUSHI Servers Working Group. "But many SUSHI client
developers have encountered difficulty in accessing content providers'
servers to conduct testing of their client software. These recommendations
provide guidelines to content providers on how they can easily provide test
areas to prospective users of their SUSHI server without providing live,
usually confidential, data or placing undue strains on their production
servers."

 

"SUSHI is quickly becoming one of NISO's most popular standards," explains
Nettie Lagace, NISO's Associate Director for Programs. "Libraries that are
using the SUSHI protocol have seen significant time savings in gathering
their usage statistics. This Recommended Practice will make it even easier
for SUSHI to be adopted by reducing and eliminating development roadblocks."

 

The draft Recommended Practice and an online comment form are available
at:www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/server/. All content providers who provide
COUNTER usage statistics are encouraged to implement the recommendations
during the trial and provide their feedback.

 

 

Jill O'Neill

Director, Planning & Communication

NFAIS

(v) 215-893-1561

(email) jilloneill at nfais.org

 

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