[Eril-l] New NISO Project—Package Identifiers

[NISO Announce]

**Apologies for cross posting**


September 14, 2021: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
today announced a new project, recently approved by its voting
members, to develop
a Recommended Practice for Unique Electronic Resource Package Identifiers
<https://groups.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/25861/>. Volunteers
are now invited to join a new Working Group to create a set of draft
recommendations for public comment.

E-resources are frequently purchased as packages, which can range in size
from a handful of titles to hundreds of thousands. Currently, these
packages can only be identified by their name in the supply chain, within
elements such as invoices, publisher websites, knowledge bases, etc.
However, names are inherently ambiguous, so this causes problems that
affect all stakeholders—libraries, content providers and platforms,
knowledge base providers, and even users.

The NISO Unique Electronic Resource Package Identifiers Working Group will
evaluate and create recommendations for a unique identifier to enable
disambiguation between packages, which can be used across the supply chain.
This identifier will allow all stakeholders to streamline and simplify
their processes, and to more easily track changes. It will also provide
libraries with clear information about which titles a package contains,
enabling them, for example, to manage claims when journals move between
publishers.

The Working Group is expected to conduct an initial analysis, create
specific recommendations, and develop and implement a community engagement
plan. Representatives are welcome from across all stakeholder groups, both
those that provide and consume content, including: publishers, aggregators,
and other content providers; subscription agents and book jobbers;
electronic resources librarians; knowledge base providers; identifier,
standards, and other infrastructure organizations.

For more information about the Working Group, or to volunteer to
participate, please contact the NISO Office at nisohq at niso.org.

“There is widespread recognition of the need for a unique identifier for
packages,” said project sponsor Athena Hoeppner, Discovery Services
Librarian at the University of Central Florida. “We look forward to working
with the information community on this new project, and warmly invite wide
participation in the Working Group, to help ensure that we are successful.”

“NISO’s goal with this project is to create reliability across all systems
and entities that are using package information, while ensuring that the
recommendations are simple enough for all stakeholders to be able to
adopt,” added Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Executive Director. “The
response from our voting members was enthusiastic and we are confident
that, with the support of the Working Group and input from a broad range of
stakeholders, the eventual Recommended Practice will create efficiencies
that benefit everyone.”

About NISO

Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster
discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through
collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional
communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq at niso.org.


NISO

3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302

Baltimore, MD 21211

Phone: 301-654-2512

E-mail: nisohq at niso.org
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