Updated ONIX for Serials formats now available

[Katharina Klemperer <kathy.klemperer@verizon.net>]

The NISO/EDItEUR Joint Working Party for the Exchange of Serials

Subscription Information is pleased to announce the availability 
of updated pilot versions of the ONIX for Serials Serials Release 
Notification (SRN) and Serials Products and Subscriptions (SPS) 
formats.  An XML schema and a prose overview for these formats 
are available on the EDItEUR website at 
http://www.editeur.org/onixserials.html.  An eye-readable ONIX 
for Serials Glossary and a Codelist can also be found at that 
location.  These formats join the already-completed Serials 
Online Holdings (SOH) format.

ONIX for Serials is a family of XML formats for communicating 
information about serial products and subscription information. 
The development of the formats has taken place through the 
efforts of the Joint Working Party, with the participation of 
libraries, subscription agents, publishers, and suppliers of 
systems and services to the serials world.

The SRN and SPS formats are currently at release 0.91, which is a 
release for piloting.  On completion of the pilots, and the 
incorporation of any consequent changes, EDItEUR will issue a 
first full Release, to be numbered 1.0.  Organizations involved 
with the exchange of serials information are encouraged to 
exercise and exchange these messages and to send comments on the 
specification and schema to EDItEUR (brian@bic.org.uk). 
Organizations that are using the formats during the pilot period 
are asked to contact EDItEUR at the same address.

To receive notices of updates to ONIX Serials formats and 
documentation, please subscribe to the ONIX for Serials mailing 
list by sending an email to O4Sinfo-subscribe@list.niso.org with 
"subscribe" as the subject.  You will receive an email from the 
list requesting confirmation.

To participate in the more detailed ONIX for Serials 
implementers' discussion list, please subscribe to the ONIX for 
Serials implementation mailing list by sending an email to 
O4Simplement-subscribe@list.niso.org with "subscribe" as the 
subject.

About EDItEUR: EDItEUR is the international group coordinating 
development of the standards infrastructure for electronic 
commerce in the book and serials industries.  EDItEUR is a truly 
international organization with 90 members from 17 countries, 
including Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa, United States 
and most of the European countries.

About NISO:  NISO, the National Information Standards 
Organization, a non-profit association accredited by the American 
National Standards Institute (ANSI), identifies, develops, 
maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage 
information in our changing and ever-more digital environment.

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Katharina Klemperer, MLS
Library and Information Systems Consulting
37 Minuteman Rd.
Acton, MA 01720 USA
kathy.klemperer@verizon.net