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NISO Publishes Revised SUSHI Standard and Supporting Documentation
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*NISO Publishes Revised SUSHI Standard and Supporting Documentation
*/New filters and report attributes add to the SUSHI protocols 
flexibility in retrieving e-resource usage data/**

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a 
revision to the /Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative 
(SUSHI) Protocol/ (ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2014). The SUSHI standard defines an 
automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic 
resource usage data utilizing a Web services framework that can replace 
the user-mediated collection of usage data reports. It was designed as a 
generalized protocol extensible to a variety of usage reports. An 
extension designed specifically to work with COUNTER reports is 
provided. This new version of the SUSHI standard extends the filter 
support to allow multiple filters and/or report attributes to be 
included in the SUSHI Request. Use of these filters and attributes is 
optional, making the new version backwards compatible with the previous 
one. Additional documentation supporting SUSHI implementation has been 
updated including SUSHI schemas, COUNTER schemas, sample reports, 
selected SUSHI Harvesters tools, and the Server Registry.

The SUSHI standard was created with the notion of filters; however, the 
only filter originally provided for was that of the date range for the 
report, explains Oliver Pesch, Chief Product Strategist, EBSCO 
Information Services, and Co-chair of the SUSHI Standing Committee. 
With use, a number of cases have surfaced where additional filters and 
other report attributes would be beneficial. The revised standard 
allows, for example, filtering by a particular platform for harvesting 
when a given SUSHI server provides usage for multiple platforms, or 
specifying that a report exclude items with zero usage to keep the 
report size smaller.

Both the core SUSHI schema and the COUNTER-SUSHI schema have been 
updated to version 1.7 of SUSHI to match the revised standard, states 
Marie Kennedy, Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian, Loyola 
Marymount University, and Co-chair of the SUSHI Standing Committee. The 
SUSHI Standing Committee is also responsible for updating 
COUNTER-related schemas; the COUNTER-SUSHI schema, the COUNTER schema, 
and the COUNTER data element values have been updated to support COUNTER 
Release 4.1. Additionally, the SUSHI website has new sample reports in 
COUNTER Release 4 formats, updates to some of the SUSHI Harvester tools 
to allow the user to select 4 as the COUNTER Release, and Server 
Registry updates to display known COUNTER 4 support.

SUSHI has become a widely adopted NISO standard, but continuous 
maintenance is required to keep it up to date, said Todd Carpenter, 
NISO Executive Director. The SUSHI Standing Committee actively 
maintains the standard to address any reported implementation issues or 
new COUNTER Releases, and to consider feature suggestions. This latest 
revision is an excellent example of how the Standing Committee has 
updated the standard to provide requested functionality.

The revised SUSHI standard and extensive supporting tools and 
documentation are available on the NISO SUSHI website at: 
www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/ <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/>


Cynthia Hodgson

Technical Editor / Consultant

National Information Standards Organization

chodgson_at_niso.org

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