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

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Jason,

Isn't that basically the same problem with SIP2?  Also problematic there.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Jason Stephenson <jstephenson at mvlc.org>wrote:

> 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/ncipor
>> the NCIP maintenance agency home at www.ncip.info.
>>
>> *About NISO*
>> NISO, based in Baltimore, Md., fosters the development and maintenance of
>> standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and
>> effective
>> interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research
>> and
>> learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages 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 an information standard. NISO
>> is
>> a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards
>> 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
>>
>>  ----------------------
>> Karen A. Wetzel
>> Standards Program Manager
>> National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
>> One North Charles Street, Suite 1905
>> Baltimore, MD 21201
>> Tel.: 301-654-2512
>> Fax: 410-685-5278
>> E-mail: kwetzel at niso.org
>>
>>
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