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["Oliver Pesch" <OPesch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are creating an FAQ to help guide implementors on issues like this and we 
will use this input to help get COUNTER to tighten up the code of practice.

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From: Dennis Vaux 
To: sushidevelopers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Mon Apr 20 11:09:07 2009
Subject: RE: [sushidevelopers] Counter XML Question 


At Innovative, we have coded our SUSHI client to ignore any period counts for 
periods that span more than one month.   I agree that no one needs this 
"summary" data, but it isn't explicitly prohibited by the xsd, and we were 
unsuccessful when we tried to get Scholarly Stats to stop sending these summary 
counts in their SUSHI response when we first tested SUSHI 1.0 with them.

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Kim, Tae [mailto:Tae.Kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
        Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 9:30 AM
        To: sushidevelopers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: [sushidevelopers] Counter XML Question
        
        
        I’m working with Proquest sushi service and they return the stats for 
every month and a total for all the months.
        
        For example if I ask for Jan-March, it returns something like:
        2008-01-01 to 2008-01-31: 3 requests 
        2008-02-01 to 2008-02-28: 4 requests
        2008-03-01 to 2008-03-31: 1 requests
        2008-01-01 to 2008-03-31: 8 requests
        
        I’d LIKE to tell them that really, the last is redundant and spans 
multiple months so it shouldn’t be in the result.
        But really, I can’t find anything in the SUSHI or COUNTER standard that 
dictates that each data point should be exactly one month in duration.
        
        The xsd of course can’t really validate  anything like this.
        
        Can anybody point me to something in the standard? Usage stats spanning 
multiple months is kinda problematic for me and I imagine for other clients as 
well.
        
        Tae Kim
        Software Developer
        Serials Solutions 



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