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[Marco van Schagen <marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think Sushi does not require you to fill in the fields, so I would not put
them in to avoid misinterpretation.
Only requirement from Counter could be to have all entited Journals listed,
you could add 0 values where you know it is zero (like the totals field). I
would think you are free to decide to stick to this rule or to omit all rows
that have only 0 values; but I guess that is up to the end user. To be sure
we are including all rows (= all journals) for now.

Marco

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Colin Prince <colin.prince@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Ah yes, good point. I'll look at the accented characters.
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> It's good to hear some discussion of platform. We'll probably end up using
> the name of our publishing service.
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> 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.
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> Does Counter require us to put the zero values where we don't have data,
> that's the question.
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> Thanks very much for your feedback, this discussion helps a lot.
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> Colin
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> *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
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> Hi Colin,
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> We are working on a similair implementation, finding similair challenges.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Hope this helps,
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> hope this may lead to a bit of discussion.
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> Good luck,
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> Marco
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> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Colin Prince <colin.prince@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> Hello Everyone,
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> I'm putting together a COUNTER XML report and referencing the schema here:
> http://www.niso.org/schemas/sushi/counter3_0.xsd
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> Attached is my first attempt, report.xml. I'd be grateful for any comments.
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> It's not clear to me what I could put in the ItemPlatform element.
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> From the docs:
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> "The platform is the name of the online host as determined by the service
> provider, e.g.,  EBSCOhost, ScienceDirect, etc."
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> We host journals at the University of Toronto Libraries using OJS software.
> There are many different publishers.
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> Perhaps "University of Toronto Libraries" is the platform, or is it "OJS"
> maybe?
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> Two more questions regarding XML details:
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> Thanks,
> Colin
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> --
> Colin Prince
> 416-978-7636
> Scholarly Communication Initiatives
> University of Toronto Libraries
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