The discovery audit revisited-NISO Plus 2022

The discovery audit revisited

Usage metrics drive most digital resource decisions, and discovery engines drive usage. To this end we revisit discovery tools that are completely, partially and barely under the control of libraries using the format of a discovery audit, where everything from referring sources, library choices, discovery layer maintenance, and user input are considered within the context of the NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI). The library community’s stake in information provider and discovery service provider conformance to ODI has been understood for some time, but newer to the stage is information provider’s interest in library conformance statements. This session will explore why conformance statements can be a challenge, but nevertheless worth the effort as part of a general discovery audit process. In particular, we will explore how conformance statements can trigger dialogue between information providers and libraries on elements of the discovery infrastructure that tended to be overlooked or hidden in the boundaries of data exchange.

NISO Plus 2022

The NISO Plus conference brings people together from across the global information community to share updates and participate in conversations about our shared challenges and opportunities. The focus is on identifying concrete next steps to improve information flow and interoperability, and help solve existing and potential future problems. Please join us to help address the key issues facing our community of librarians, publishers, researchers, and more — today and tomorrow!

David W. Green

David W. Green is a Library Systems Analyst for the State Library of Ohio. He holds an MA in English from Ohio University and an MLIS from the University of Tennessee. He is interested in automation, Python programming, APIs, and other technologies to help solve the "problems that only librarians have". When not at the library, he is investigating new films at the local cinema.

Geoffrey Morse

Geoff Morse is Interim Head of Research Services at the Northwestern University Libraries and is liaison to the American Studies program and the departments of History and Religious Studies. Morse has held various roles at Northwestern including supervising the research assistance desk, chairing the Resource Discovery Operations Group and, in his role as a public services librarian, configuring the library's discovery system Primo and the library services platform ALMA. Morse has been a member of the NISO Open Discovery Initiative’s standing committee since 2018. Morse holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA in History from Hampshire College.

Julie Zhu

Julie Zhu has been working in the publishing industry for twenty years. As IEEE’s Senior Manager of Discovery Partners, she cultivates and manages working relationships with Discovery Service, Link Resolver, Proxy Service and Search Engine providers as well as libraries and consortia to maximize IEEE content findability, visibility and accessibility in multiple discovery channels. She serves in NISO’s ODI Standing Committees and KBART Standing Committee. She has published and presented on topics such as complying with publishing standards, reducing content gaps in discovery services, publisher-vendor-library collaborations, and metadata enhancement projects. Read more about Julie on LinkedIn and ORCID.

Peter Simon

Peter Simon (moderator) is Vice President, Product Management at NewsBank, inc. He directs the development of key products while working on numerous strategic initiatives important to the growth of the company.

Simon began his career as an Editor at RR Bowker; progressed to Executive Vice President of Business Development and Database Publishing at Reed Reference Publishing; served as Vice President, Business Development at the Lexis-Nexis division of Reed Elsevier; and also served as a Vice President with the Gale Group, where he directed product management, content distribution and alliances. In addition, Simon developed content licensing functions for several publishers and represented a machine-aided indexing company working with major publishers and information services.

Simon received his undergraduate degree in English Literature from City College of New York and a Masters in Library and Information Services at Columbia University. He was Chair of the SIIA (Software and Information Industry Association) Content Division's Board of Directors, and was President of the National Federation of Advanced Information Services.

He is Immediate Past Chair of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and serves on its Board of Directors.

Robert Boissy

Bob Boissy is Director of Account Development, US/Canada, for Springer Nature. 2022 will mark Bob's nineteenth year working in scholarly publishing, and thirty-seventh year as a librarian working in commercial organizations supporting other librarians in their fixed communities of service. He currently serves as liaison to the Open Discovery Initiative standing committee from the NISO Information Discovery & Interchange Topic Committee. Bob holds a BA from Middlebury College, an MLS from the University at Albany, and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Information Transfer from Syracuse University.