Standards in electronic resource management

Abstract

AbstractFollowing last year's panel on developments in electronic resource management (ERM), the 2006 panel will discuss ERM standards. The deliverables published by the Digital Library Federation's Electronic Resource Management Initiative (DLF ERMI) had a decisive impact on the development of ERM systems and created a demand by the library, vendor, and publisher communities for further standardization in the area. In the second phase of the group's work (ERMI 2), a major objective is to develop standards for the collection of license information and usage statistics, which would reduce the administrative costs of both data sets. The need for ERM standardization has led the stakeholders to collaborate. ERMI 2 and EDItEUR are attempting to incorporate the data elements proposed by ERMI into the ONIX family of publisher data standards. The DLF/NISO/EDItEUR/PLS License Expression Working Group (LEWG) is participating in the development of license standards in part based on the work of ERMI and EDItEUR. The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) is developing a standard model for retrieving usage data. As a result, license data available in a single data container could be downloaded directly into ERM systems, as would usage statistics thanks to a platform‐independent protocol for retrieving COUNTER‐compliant data.