From: Cynthia Hodgson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:48:20 -0500

(with apologies for cross-posting)

The Open Discovery Initiative (ODI), a volunteer work group within the
National Information Standards Organization (NISO), was formed to
develop a recommended practice related to the index-based discovery
services for libraries. The ODI aims to investigate and improve the
ecosystem surrounding these discovery services, with a goal of broader
participation of content providers and increased transparency to
libraries. The ODI working group was formed in late 2011 and held its
first meeting in January 2012.

This fall, the ODI dispatched a survey of librarians, content
providers, and discovery service providers to learn more about the
current state of satisfaction with these new research tools and to
measure the value of various requirements in cross-sector practice.
The survey addressed current levels of scholarly metadata delivery /
indexing, technical successes / opportunities in these data exchanges,
and potential benefits of greater development / distribution of
discovery tool usage data.  A request to participate in the survey was
sent to this mailing list.  Many thanks for your input if you
participated!

The report from this survey is now available via the NISO ODI page at
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/ - please note that the full set of
recommendations from the ODI Working Group is still underway and will
be available in draft form for comment a few months from now.

Survey findings and analysis are provided in detail in this report,
which is organized by type of respondent. Each constituency was posed
with a range of 5-15 questions on similar topics, customized to
address the specific factors that characterize or impact each sector.
It is important to note that not all questions were required for
completion of the survey, so some items were left unanswered by some
respondents.

Following the survey exercise, the ODI will be tasked with developing
recommendations for consideration by the wider NISO community. The
conclusion of this survey report outlines those next steps in greater
detail. If you are interested in keeping up to date with ODI, please
sign up to our Interest mailing list:
http://www.niso.org/lists/opendiscovery.

Sincerely,

ODI Working Group
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