Jason, Isn't that basically the same problem with SIP2? Also problematic there.
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Jason Stephenson <[email protected]>wrote: > Quoting Lori Bowen Ayre <[email protected]>: > > 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 <[email protected]> >> Date: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:04 AM >> Subject: NISO Press Release: NISO Announces Availability of NCIP >> Implementer >> Registry (11/10/10) >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> *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. 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