Scholarly iQ and SUSHI: A Case Study
Gary Van Overborg, John Milligan, Michael Lee · Information Standards Quarterly · 2011
ervice-oriented architectures are surging in popularity.Web services, for both publishing and consumption, are working their way across virtually all business interactions.The ability to make data available on demand through standards-based interfaces has transformed the way that organizations interact.The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.93) has brought this transformational technology to the COUNTER reporting space, and throughout its development and adoption, Scholarly iQ has been on the forefront of the effort to take SUSHI mainstream.Being an early adopter is not without pain, however, and it is the responsibility of early trailblazers to lay guideposts along the way.This case study is a collection of these guideposts.Our objective is to identify some of the struggles, successes, and observations that we have seen along the path and to share those with the community.As with any standard, SUSHI will continue to increase in relevance and utility as its level of adoption expands.It is our hope that our experiences will provide additional direction and motivation to those that are contemplating the pursuit of this innovative protocol.In this case study, we will first examine some of the challenges that we experienced in our implementation of the SUSHI specification.Then we will discuss some of our observations regarding the current trends in SUSHI adoption and usage.Finally, we look forward to see what SUSHI has on the horizon, and how Scholarly iQ will play a role in that future.We are pleased that you will be making this journey with us.