| Abstract: |
CORE – the acronym stands for Cost of Resource Exchange—was a standards initiative, under the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) umbrella, that took place between 2008 and 2010. CORE was designed to facilitate the transfer of cost, invoice, and related financial information from an integrated library system (ILS )—using data created in the acquisitions module—to an electronic resource management (ERM) system. The NISO CORE DSFTU was released in spring 2009, but for a variety of reasons did not receive much uptake. The proposed standard was later released as a NISO Recommended Practice. It is likely that in the next few years, as libraries again want to promote interoperability between disparate systems, CORE will be seen as the right tool for the job. |
