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[Colin Prince <colin.prince@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah yes, good point. I'll look at the accented characters.

It's good to hear some discussion of platform. We'll probably end up using the 
name of our publishing service.

For some time periods we have breakdown available and for other periods we 
don't. My feeling is that including the information where available will not 
cause problems.

Does Counter require us to put the zero values where we don't have data, that's 
the question.

Thanks very much for your feedback, this discussion helps a lot.

Colin

From: Marco van Schagen [mailto:marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 12:26
To: Colin Prince
Cc: sushidevelopers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [sushidevelopers] COUNTER XML - three questions

Hi Colin,
We are working on a similair implementation, finding similair challenges.

Try to open your sample in Internet Explorer as that will check validity of 
your XML to some level. Your sample does not open well, as you have used the à 
character. Ypu may need to replace this with the &...; equivalent.

I believe the vendor, University of Toronto Journals, decides a platform name 
for their hosting platform. I would expect this is the name for the website 
where your customer accesses the publications. We use SD or ScienceDirect for 
anything published on ScienceDirect.com.

Having values or not, counter mentions all entitled publications need to be 
listed. We have interpreted this as a desire to include zero values listed as a 
int 0 value.
Thinking of how we expect the values to be read by the harvesting tool; I 
expect this does not need totals (if you listed more than one month); and if 
you have both ft_html and ft_pdf, I would expect totals also is not needed. You 
list ft_total only, so I expect you have no breakdown available.

Hope this helps,
hope this may lead to a bit of discussion.

Good luck,
Marco


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Colin Prince 
<colin.prince@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:colin.prince@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hello Everyone,

I'm putting together a COUNTER XML report and referencing the schema here: 
http://www.niso.org/schemas/sushi/counter3_0.xsd

Attached is my first attempt, report.xml. I'd be grateful for any comments.

It's not clear to me what I could put in the ItemPlatform element.

From the docs:

"The platform is the name of the online host as determined by the service 
provider, e.g.,  EBSCOhost, ScienceDirect, etc."

We host journals at the University of Toronto Libraries using OJS software. 
There are many different publishers.

Perhaps "University of Toronto Libraries" is the platform, or is it "OJS" maybe?

Two more questions regarding XML details:

Should the ItemPerformance instances be symmetrical, that is, if I put ft_html 
in one ItemPerformance instance, do I have to make sure it is in all of them?

If we do not have a particular piece of data, is it preferable to skip the 
element, put an empty element, or put an element containing the integer zero?

Thanks,
Colin

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Colin Prince
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Scholarly Communication Initiatives
University of Toronto Libraries