As part of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) aims to define standards and/or best practices for the new generation of library discovery services that are based on indexed search. These discovery services are primarily based upon indexes derived from journals, ebooks and other electronic information of a scholarly nature. The content comes from a range of information providers and products--commercial, open access, institutional, etc.
The Recommended Practice was created by members of the ODI Working Group, which completed its work in June 2014 with the publication of NISO RP-19-2014. NISO formed the Open Discovery Initiative Standards Committee following the approval of the ODI Recommended Practice. The ODI Standing Committee is charged with the following tasks:
- Promotion and education of ODI Recommended Practice for all stakeholders
- Support for content providers and discovery service providers during adoption and completion of conformance checklists
- Provide a forum for ongoing discussion related to all aspects of discovery platforms for all stakeholders
- Consider next steps for items deemed out scope from the original ODI Work Group Recommended Practice
- Identify emerging needs in the open discovery space and determine appropriate courses of action
- Make recommendations to the D2D topic committee on further work items required to fulfill the goals of the Open Discovery Initiative
To learn more about ODI conformance, visit the Open Discovery Initiative workroom and download NISO RP-19-2020.
