TechCall_01feb2016

Susan, Mike, Trish, Carolyn, Joel

Action Items

• Susan will email Keri to better understand how Z39.50 is working at SI.
• Susan will talk to Bianca about the Cataloging Working Group and preferred use of author names vs name at time of publication. Will loop Trish into that conversation.
• Susan to work with Bianca to contact Rod and see if missing Issue metadata is unavoidable for BioStor article metadata or if he may have simply not noticed
• Susan to send around the information she can find on ISSNs, pricing structure, and documentation and Mike will review. For discussion on next call with Martin.

Notes

• Diacritics - coming from Z39.50 fetch. No issue when uploaded using Macaw. Susan will gather info, Susan and Bianca will talk to engineers at IA. Susan will email Keri to better understand how Z39.50 is working at SI.
• CiteBank domain moved over to SI network. Joel will set up a place on two servers. One html page and tow files. TRB meeting next Tues. Open up sites to everyone tomorrow. Admin Dash gets turned off on 11th.
• Discovery Tools - Author name for articles. The way the data model works now, if we want to generate JATS metadata, it only supports preferred use of authors name. Susan feels author name should be same as when it was published, for use in citations. Does it support both? Susan will talk to Bianca about JATS and looping in Cataloging Working Group. Trish - pull you into that discussion tomorrow afternoon.
• Issue metadata from BioStor - Mike found 2,000+ BioStor articles that include Issue metadata. Susan, I know there were still some that did not. Did we want to ask Rod about the Web of Science? Should we ask about parameters affecting why included sometimes and not others? Susan happy to work with Bianca to contact Rod and see if that is unavoidable or if he may have simply not noticed
• ISSNs and legacy serials – Three potential sources of ISSNs (those from BioStor which we are not yet adding; those from JSTOR where we have overlap with their collections; and new ISSNs through an OCLC service. What is the cost v benefit?

Discussion originated Discovery Tools led by Adam Chandler. Article metadata, schema called JATS from Natl Lib Med, now used more broadly, Adam services, OCLC identified as required, Matt Person, ISSN agency in Paris, for a fee will assign to legacy. Find out assigned ISSN’s, legacy titles we could get one assigned. Potentially easier to get DOIs assigned, easier to contribute .
Problem is that in order to use API, there’s a fee. 300 Euros annual or time?
Agency in France also provides a service take all of your serials and reconcile to database.
What kind of public documentation. Susan will send around what she has. Mike will take a look.

Action Items from last time:

• Gemini issues on scientific names – Joel completed these Gemini issues.
• Articles with DOIs -- Mike sent these to Martin.
• Susan sent around the information on JSTOR’s ISSNs for legacy materials.
• Mike sent around a list of which serials in BHL do not have ISSNs
• Susan sent examples of BioStor articles with no issue metadata

New Updates / Questions

Discovery Tools Working Group & ISSNs
Talking about when we supply article level data to OCLC, Proquest, others; Do we truly need an ISSN? OCLC said hard requirements
Matt Person did some checking and found out that the ISSN folks (in France), they assign them retrospectively, to legacy publications. This is something that JSTOR has done a lot of; Someone at LC suggested paying one time fee to have our journals programmatically compared with ISSN registry that JSTOR has already paid for. Might make it easier for us to assign DOIs.
Would it be possible to get a report of all serial titles with nothing in ISSN field? Yes
Not sure how much overlap there would be with JSTOR and our non-ISSN journals.
Is there a chance we could do what JSTOR does? Yes,