Description
This ballot is to approve a proposed new work item to create a NISO Recommended Practice for unique electronic resource package identifiers. Members have thirty (30) days to vote on the work item. Your vote options are: Yes (approve the project), No (do not approve the project), or Abstain (from voting). Comments are required for No votes. If you would like to nominate someone to participate on the Working Group (if the project is approved), please provide a name and contact information in your comments. NISO Working Group participation is not limited to NISO members. The proposal was approved by the Information Policy & Analysis Topic Committee on July 20, 2021, and is now being sent to the NISO voting membership for agreement. Electronic resources are frequently purchased as packages. While some of the packages contain only a few titles, others can include hundreds of thousands of titles. Many content providers offer a variety of packages with often similar content. Currently the packages can only be identified by their name in the supply chain, such as invoices, publisher websites, knowledge bases etc. The name for the same package can vary, depending on where it is used. In addition, packages may undergo name/label changes over time and may no longer match information included in library invoices or knowledge bases. It has become cumbersome and work intensive to identify packages across the supply chain. This problem appears at many different places and affects all stakeholders: libraries, content providers and knowledge bases providers. The unreliability of package names can even affect the user experience because the knowledge base packages often provide the basis for availability settings on a library discovery system. The work item is to evaluate and create recommendations for a unique package identifier that provides disambiguation across the supply chain. This project will begin as a Recommended Practice. In order for this item to be approved, a minimum of 10% of NISO's Voting Members must express interest in this work item.
