Your help needed with a NISO survey

[Gracemary Smulewitz <smulewi@rci.rutgers.edu>]

Posted on behalf of the NISO I2 Library Workflows Scenario Group

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NISO has identified the need for an institutional identifier to 
enable information transactions among uniquely identified 
entities across the Web.  The NISO Institutional Identifier (I2) 
working group has been established to develop a robust, scalable 
and interoperable standard for identifying the institution--a 
core entity in any information transaction.

Institutions create, purchase, share and establish the provenance 
and authority of information for their users.  Libraries and 
archives have been among the earliest adopters of institutional 
identifiers, from the published union catalog of library cards 
with NUC identifiers to interlibrary lending using the MARC code 
list for Organizations.  These identifiers have reached their 
limits in terms of extensibility, scale and uniqueness.  As 
non-actionable identifiers, they lack the currency and 
functionality to support information management in the global web 
environment.

This identifier strategy must work in the global information 
space and support the business model and needs of all the 
stakeholders---commercial information and service providers, 
institutions, creators, rights holders and users. It must 
integrate smoothly with existing workflows and processes and 
enable future workflows within the information chain.


Libraries and archives are major participants in global 
information sharing and have critical needs for institutional 
identifiers within their own organizations, for consortial 
activities and to share information with other institutions and 
their users worldwide.  Legacy identifiers are embedded in most 
core library workflows.  Understanding and supporting the needs 
of libraries is critical for the development of an institutional 
identifier strategy that is robust and useful for the long term.

Please assist us by taking part in a brief survey about the use 
of institutional identifiers in libraries.  More than individual 
can contribute from a library since the use of identifiers 
differs across library workflow areas.  The survey consists of 11 
questions that are largely multiple choice and takes about 15 
minutes to complete.

Thank you for your assistance with this effort.  Your 
participation is important to us.

PLEASE ACCESS THE SURVEY HERE:  http://bit.ly/qyKaZ

Thank you!

Grace Agnew
Co-Chair, NISO I2 Working Group