Is anyone out there working on developing NCIP support for Evergreen or Koha? Is it queued up in the roadmap?<div><br></div><div>Lori<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Karen Wetzel</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwetzel@niso.org">kwetzel@niso.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:04 AM<br>Subject: NISO Press Release: NISO Announces Availability of NCIP Implementer Registry (11/10/10)<br>To: <a href="mailto:newsline@list.niso.org">newsline@list.niso.org</a><br><br><br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b>NISO Announces Availability of NCIP Implementer Registry</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><i>Site brings together information about vendors’
implementations of NCIP</i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b>Baltimore, MD - November 10, 2010 -</b><span style="font-weight:normal"> NISO is pleased to announce the availability of the
NCIP Implementer Registry, a site that allows vendors to share information
about their implementations of the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol
(ANSI/NISO Z39.83, Parts 1 and 2). NCIP addresses the need for interoperability
among disparate circulation, interlibrary loan, and related applications by
standardizing the exchange of messages between and among computer-based
applications. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">At this time, the following vendors have indicated their use
of NCIP by signing up for the registry: Auto-Graphics, Ex Libris, Innovative
Interfaces, Inc., and Rapid Radio. The registry is linked from the NCIP website
(<a href="http://www.niso.org/workrooms/ncip" target="_blank">www.niso.org/workrooms/ncip</a>)
and from the NCIP maintenance agency site (<a href="http://www.ncip.info" target="_blank">www.ncip.info</a>).
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<div class="MsoNormal">The registry allows vendors to enter information about their
implementations of Version 1 of the standard, now deprecated but still widely
used, and Version 2 of the standard, the current version of the standard
adopted in 2008. Vendors may participate in the standard as an initiator of
messages, a responder to messages, or both. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">By making this information publicly available, libraries
will be able to see which vendors currently support NCIP, which version(s) of
the standard are supported, and which messages in the standard are supported.
In 2010 the NCIP Standing Committee defined two sets of core messages for
accomplishing essential tasks: the Resource Sharing and the Self-Service. All
required messages must be enabled for a vendor to claim support for a core
message set. Depending on the role the vendor is playing in the transaction,
the vendor must either support the messages as an initiator or responder. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">NCIP Standing Committee member Susan Campbell (Research
& Development Consultant, College Center for Library Automation), who, with
Mary Jackson (Product Manager, Resource Sharing, Auto-Graphics) developed the
Drupal-based registry for the committee, noted, “The new registry builds on
years of work on NCIP. It is a key next step to help libraries better
understand which vendors provide NCIP, which NCIP messages are supported, and
how those might in turn support what the library needs in order to more
efficiently provide resource sharing or self-service services to their users. I
am pleased to make this registry available and look forward to seeing its
growth.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Rob Walsh, President of EnvisionWare, the Maintenance Agency
for NCIP, as well as co-chair for NISO’s Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee,
which provides oversight to the NCIP Standing Committee, added, “This is a
wonderful step forward for NCIP. The registry is just one of the tools that the
Standing Committee has been working on to support NCIP implementers and users.
By making this information more broadly available, the community will be able
to make better informed decisions to help meet their customers’ and patrons’
needs.”</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">The NCIP Standing Committee is working to develop additional
user tools. For more information, visit the NCIP website at <a href="http://www.niso.org/workrooms/ncip" target="_blank">www.niso.org/workrooms/ncip</a> or
the NCIP maintenance agency home at <a href="http://www.ncip.info" target="_blank">www.ncip.info</a>.
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b>About NISO</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">NISO, based in Baltimore, Md., fosters the development and
maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and
effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in
research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities
of interest and across the entire lifecycle of an information standard. NISO is
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Institute (ANSI).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>For More Information, Contact:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Victoria Kinnear<br> NISO Business Development and Operations Manager<br>
Phone: 301-654-2512<br><a href="mailto:vkinnear@niso.org" target="_blank">vkinnear@niso.org</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">Karen Wetzel<br> NISO Standards Program Manager</div>
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