[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: NISO Press Release: NISO Announces Availability of NCIP Implementer Registry (11/10/10)

[Jason Stephenson]

Quoting Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>:

> Is anyone out there working on developing NCIP support for Evergreen or
> Koha?  Is it queued up in the roadmap?

The Univesity of E. Oregon is having NCIP (most likely version 1)  
implemented for Evergreen via the XCNCIPToolkit so that they can use  
it with some OCLC product or another. I don't expect this will be  
generically useful.

My understanding is that they have hired a local developer to do it.

Personally, I think both revisions of Z39.83 should be ditched and  
something simpler and completely vendor neutral should be developed in  
its place. It is utterly stupid that Z39.83 allows different  
implementations conform to the standard and yet be utterly unable to  
communicate with each other.

Jason Stephenson
MVLC

>
> Lori
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Karen Wetzel <kwetzel at niso.org>
> Date: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:04 AM
> Subject: NISO Press Release: NISO Announces Availability of NCIP Implementer
> Registry (11/10/10)
> To: newsline at list.niso.org
>
>
> *NISO Announces Availability of NCIP Implementer Registry*
> *Site brings together information about vendors’ implementations of NCIP*
>
> *Baltimore, MD - November 10, 2010 -* NISO is pleased to announce the
> availability of the NCIP Implementer Registry, a site that allows vendors to
> share information about their implementations of the NISO Circulation
> Interchange Protocol (ANSI/NISO Z39.83, Parts 1 and 2). NCIP addresses the
> need for interoperability among disparate circulation, interlibrary loan,
> and related applications by standardizing the exchange of messages between
> and among computer-based applications.
>
> At this time, the following vendors have indicated their use of NCIP by
> signing up for the registry: Auto-Graphics, Ex Libris, Innovative
> Interfaces, Inc., and Rapid Radio. The registry is linked from the NCIP
> website (www.niso.org/workrooms/ncip) and from the NCIP maintenance agency
> site (www.ncip.info).
>
> The registry allows vendors to enter information about their implementations
> of Version 1 of the standard, now deprecated but still widely used, and
> Version 2 of the standard, the current version of the standard adopted in
> 2008. Vendors may participate in the standard as an initiator of messages, a
> responder to messages, or both.
>
> By making this information publicly available, libraries will be able to see
> which vendors currently support NCIP, which version(s) of the standard are
> supported, and which messages in the standard are supported. In 2010 the
> NCIP Standing Committee defined two sets of core messages for accomplishing
> essential tasks: the Resource Sharing and the Self-Service. All required
> messages must be enabled for a vendor to claim support for a core message
> set. Depending on the role the vendor is playing in the transaction, the
> vendor must either support the messages as an initiator or responder.
>
> NCIP Standing Committee member Susan Campbell (Research & Development
> Consultant, College Center for Library Automation), who, with Mary Jackson
> (Product Manager, Resource Sharing, Auto-Graphics) developed the
> Drupal-based registry for the committee, noted, “The new registry builds on
> years of work on NCIP. It is a key next step to help libraries better
> understand which vendors provide NCIP, which NCIP messages are supported,
> and how those might in turn support what the library needs in order to more
> efficiently provide resource sharing or self-service services to their
> users. I am pleased to make this registry available and look forward to
> seeing its growth.”
>
> Rob Walsh, President of EnvisionWare, the Maintenance Agency for NCIP, as
> well as co-chair for NISO’s Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee, which
> provides oversight to the NCIP Standing Committee, added, “This is a
> wonderful step forward for NCIP. The registry is just one of the tools that
> the Standing Committee has been working on to support NCIP implementers and
> users. By making this information more broadly available, the community will
> be able to make better informed decisions to help meet their customers’ and
> patrons’ needs.”
>
> The NCIP Standing Committee is working to develop additional user tools. For
> more information, visit the NCIP website at www.niso.org/workrooms/ncip or
> the NCIP maintenance agency home at www.ncip.info.
>
> *About NISO*
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> standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective
> interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and
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> and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of
> interest and across the entire lifecycle of an information standard. NISO is
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> Institute (ANSI).
>
> *For More Information, Contact:*
> Victoria Kinnear
> NISO Business Development and Operations Manager
> Phone: 301-654-2512
> vkinnear at niso.org
>
> Karen Wetzel
> NISO Standards Program Manager
> kwetzel at niso.org
>
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> Karen A. Wetzel
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> National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
> One North Charles Street, Suite 1905
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> E-mail: kwetzel at niso.org
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