COUNTER/NISO/SUSHI

[Lalit Kumar]

What is COUNTER/NISO/SUSHI practical use kindly tell me.

[Masood Raza]

About SUSHI

The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2007) defines an automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic resource usage data utilizing a Web services framework. It is intended to replace the time-consuming user-mediated collection of usage data reports.

The standard includes a versioned Web Services Description Language (WSDL), to describe the Web service namespace and operations, and a generalized XML schema with the syntax of the SUSHI protocol.

About COUNTER

Launched in March 2002, COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) is an international initiative serving librarians, publishers and intermediaries by setting standards that facilitate the recording and reporting of online usage statistics in a consistent, credible and compatible way. The first COUNTER Code of Practice, covering online journals and databases, was published in 2003. This has contributed to the new discipline of usage bibliometrics and a great deal of work is underway to try to establish .value metrics. associated with usage, in which the COUNTER compliant statistics play an increasingly important role. [Source: COUNTER website]

NISO and COUNTER have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that assigns the responsibility for maintaining the XML schema version of COUNTER reports to NISO. This will ensure that the SUSHI and COUNTER schemas are always synchronized.