New from NISO: Recommended Practice and Technical Report on Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics

From a NISO Announcement:

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of a new recommended practice, Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics (IOTA): Recommendations for Link Resolver Providers (NISO RP-21-2013). These recommendations are the result of a three-year study performed by the NISO IOTA Working Group in which millions of OpenURLs were analyzed and a Completeness Index was developed as a means of quantifying OpenURL quality.
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The project is summarized in a technical report, IOTA Working Group Summary of Activities and Outcomes (NISO TR-05-2013), which was published along with the recommended practice.
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“The IOTA Recommended Practice is a perfect complement to the NISO/UKSG KBART Recommended Practice (NISO RP-9-2010),” states Todd Carpenter, NISO’s Executive Director. “While KBART recommends how to improve the data within the link resolver knowledgebase, IOTA is focused on the metadata passed in the OpenURL itself. Together, these recommendations can ensure that OpenURLs will consistently provide the results that libraries, publishers, and end users have come to expect from this technology.”

Read the Complete News Release
Direct to Full Text: Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics (IOTA): Recommendations for Link Resolver Providers (NISO RP-21-2013)
28 pages; PDF.
Direct to Full Text: IOTA Working Group Summary of Activities and Outcomes
29 pages; PDF.
Direct to NISO/IOTA Working Group Web Page
See Also: Conference Slides: “NISO IOTA (Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics), in Context” (March 7, 2011)

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