From: "Conrad, Lettie" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:59:10 +0000

An important part of the NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) is
furthering transparency in library discovery services via completion
and publication of voluntary ODI Conformance Statements. The ODI
Standing Committee has released templates for these checklists
(available from http://www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/conformance) in an
effort to encourage the release of ODI conformance statements by
content providers and discovery service providers. Such statements
outline the degree to which a provider’s services conform to the June
2014 Recommended Practice RP-19-2014.

This is an important first step in providing data in a consistent,
standardized way so that  libraries can better assess content
providers’ participation in discovery services.

If you are a publisher, content provider, or discovery provider, we
urge you to work with the ODI Conformance Checklist and publically
disclose your level of conformance.  We look forward to announcements
of the first published ODI conformance statements soon.  For
convenience and to promote the visibility of these conformance
statements, ODI will maintain a directory of published statements at
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/conformance.

For a summary of the Open Discovery Initiative, see:

http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/15232/NISO%20ODI%20brochure.pdf

Thank you,

Lettie Conrad, ODI co-chair

Lettie Y. Conrad
Executive Manager, Online Products
SAGE Publications Inc.
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320