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ONIX for Serials
SOH: Serials Online Holdings -
Release 1.0 (revised September 2005)
The
Serials
Online Holdings (SOH) format is designed to convey information about
online serial resources from suppliers – such as hosting
services, publication access management services, agents or publishers
– to end customers in subscribing libraries. Each instance of
the
format shows the holdings of a particular subscribing organisation or
library available via, or known to, the sending party.
Information
in
SOH exchanges can be used to advise librarians and their user
communities on which resources are available, in which formats and from
which sources. Details may be directly viewed and available sources
compared, using cascading style sheets or other applications.
Alternatively, the exchanges may be used to populate resolution servers
within the library organisation concerned.
The
extent of
coverage of each subscribed resource (date or volume/issue ranges) is
included in the SOH exchange, as are details of any applicable embargo
conditions in place. The format is specifically designed so that
resources may be grouped in a flat “A-Z” listing or
hierarchically by supplying service.
Release
1.0 is the first version which is being published for general use
following the completion of a series of pilots based on Release 0.9. We
intend that, for the foreseeable future, subsequent releases will
maintain backwards compatibility with Release 1.0.
Revised
versions September 2005: the text of the Overview has been revised and
expanded without any substantive change; and the Schema has been
corrected by the addition of two optional elements that were previously
missing from the message header, and by specifying that the
<OnlinePackage> composite is non-repeating in a "by host"
message.
Revised version of Schema January 2007: minor corrections have been
made to the Schema for consistency with the User Guide, none of which
affect the functionality of the Schema.
Download
the ONIX Serials Glossary (PDF)
Download
SOH Overview Release 1.0 (text revised September 2005) (PDF)
Download
SOH XML
Schema Version 1.0 with Code Lists (corrected September 2005 and
January 2007) (ZIP) (Note
that
the Codelists file must be held in the same folder as the XML Schema)
Download
the eye-readable ONIX Serials Codelists (PDF)
Download
SOH
User Guide Release 1.0 (ZIP)
View
User Guide for
SOH Release 1.0, A-to-Z format
View
User Guide for SOH Release 1.0, By-Host format
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