The NISO Update provides the latest news about NISO's current efforts, including standards, recommended practices and community meetings covering many areas of interest to the library community. Working group members will provide updates on projects newly underway or recently completed

1. NISO Update
SUSHI Standing Committee

2. Activities of the past year
• Updates made to the NISO SUSHI Web Site
• Addressed changes that came with
introduction of Release 4 of the COUNTER CoP
• Expanded “SUSHI Filters” are being added to
the standard
• Experimentation on “SUSHI Lite” is underway

3. SUSHI Web Site
• Updated look
• New logo
• Improved usability – clearer explanations and
easier navigation
• SUSHI Server Registry now integrated and
accommodated R3 and R4 support

9. Changes resulting from COUNTER R4
• COUNTER R4 introduced new reports and new
metric types impacting schemas for:
– COUNTER
– COUNTER Elements
– COUNTER_SUSHI
• Updates to the COUNTER SUSHI
Implementation Profile (offers a guide to the
changes in R4 and how to implement them)

10. SUSHI Filters
• SUSHI was introduced with only the ability to
specify a date range as a filter in the request.
• A more flexible mechanism is needed to
include other filter options on the request.

11. Filter examples
Limit report to just usage from a particular
platform.
This would apply to a service, such as
JUSP, that can provide usage for
multiple platforms.
<Filter Name=“Platform”>ScienceDirect</Filter>

12. Filter examples
Allows a usage consolidation program to
receive and process a smaller report
from large content providers
Exclude zero-usage items from the
COUNTER report.
<Filter Name=“ExcludeZeroUsage”>True</Filter>

13. Filter examples
Offers a mechanism to select
department or location-level usage
reports.
Provide usage for a specific department, IP
range or other organizational unit.
<Filter Name=“Department”>Engineering</Filter>
<Filter Name=“Account”>1234</Filter>
<Filter Name=“IPRange”>192.168.1.102-192.168.1.255</Filter>

14. Filter Implementation
• Completely optional and requires prior
understanding between client and server
• SUSHI Web Site will create a controlled
vocabulary that lists recommended filter
names
• Requires a new release of the SUSHI standard
• Distribution for review and voting later this
calendar year

15. SUSHI Lite
A Technical Report and technical proofs of
concept that explores evolving SUSHI into a
light-weight protocol suitable for exchanging
snippets of usage.

16. SUSHI Lite
Request will use the HTTP REST approach
common in most current web services.
http://sushi.example.com/getreport?
Report=JR1&
issn=1084-5453&
Begin=2014-01&
End=2014-03

17. SUSHI Lite
Response formats supported would be JSON,
JSONP or XML with element names and
organization based on COUNTER schema.

18. SUSHI Lite
Response formats supported would be JSON,
JSONP or XML with element names and
organization based on COUNTER schema.
<include example>
{
"Request": {
"Report": "JR1",
"RequestorID": "test",
"CustomerID": "test",
"Filters": {
"DateRange": "2014-01/2014-03",
"ItemID": "issn:1084-5453"
},
"Created": "2014-06-26 14:48:34+01:00"
},
"Report": {
"Vendor": "Oxford University Press",
"Platform": "Highwire",
"ReportItems": [
{
"Identifiers": {
"Print_ISSN": "1084-5453",
"Online_ISSN": "1930-8892"
},
"Publisher": "Oxford University Press",
"Type": "Journal",
"Name": "Environmental History",
"Performance": {
"2014-01": {"ft_total": "0"},
"2014-02": {"ft_total": "4"},
"2014-03": {"ft_total": "2"},
}
}
]
}
}

19. SUSHI Lite
Uses:
• An alternative metrics site requesting article-level
usage for all articles written by an author (oh, did we
mention, it will support article level usage)
• Discovery service retrieving article-level usage in real-
time to show on detailed page
• Catalog, journal listing service or acquisitions tool,
requesting usage for one journal to show usage in
context of the workflow
• A publisher retrieving article-level usage from
institutional repositories or aggregators for a specific
publisher in support of the Journal: Usage Factor

20. SUSHI Lite
Working Group Roster:
Alan Stiles The Open University
James van Mil University of Cincinnati Libraries
Mike Buschman Plum Analytics
Miriam Lorenz “Freelancer for Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V.
for usage statistics”
Oliver Pesch EBSCO Information Services (co-chair)
Paul Needham Cranfield University (co-chair)
Guy Marjew Elsevier

21. SUSHI Lite
Progress:
• Technical report draft is underway
– Coordinating the “Filter” list with SUSHI Filters
effort
• Extensions to the COUNTER XML schema to
support article data are being drafted
• A working prototype is being developed
• Plan to publish results late 2014