Content providers are encouraged to take specific measures to assert their conformance with NISO RP-19-2020, the recommended practices of NISO’s . These measures are voluntarily made by each organization, in an effort to increase transparency and communications around pre-indexed or “web-scale” library discovery services. The ODI Conformance Checklist below was created to enable standardized methods for content providers to assert their ODI conformance to libraries, discovery services, and other industry stakeholders.
ϲʹ's Compliance | Recommendation | Reference |
| Content Provider makes core metadata and underlying full-text/original content for complete offerings available to Discovery Service Providers. | 3.2.1.1 (1) |
| Content Provider makes the core set of metadata elements and content item (full text, transcript, etc.) for each item submitted for indexing available to Discovery Service Providers. | 3.2.1.1 (2) |
| Title | 3.2.1.2 |
| Authors | 3.2.1.2 |
| Author Identifier | 3.2.1.2 |
| Publisher Name | 3.2.1.2 |
| Volume | 3.2.1.2 |
| Issue | 3.2.1.2 |
| Page(s) | 3.2.1.2 |
| Date/Date Range | 3.2.1.2 |
| Item Identifier | 3.2.1.2 |
| Component of Title | 3.2.1.2 |
| Component of Title Identifier | 3.2.1.2 |
| Item URL | 3.2.1.2 |
| Open Access Designation | 3.2.1.2 |
| Content Type | 3.2.1.2 |
| Content Format | 3.2.1.2 |
| Language | 3.2.1.2 |
| Indexing Data | 3.2.1.2 |
| Full Text/Transcript | 3.2.1.2 |
| Abstract/Description | 3.2.1.2 |
| Content Provider provides libraries, on request, with a statement of participation in the discovery services, including disclosure of coverage depth and content depth. | 3.2.2 |
| Content Provider’s agreements with Discovery Service Providers do not include NDAs. | 3.2.3 |
| The transfer of Content Provider’s data to Discovery Service Providers makes use of existing standards where applicable and uses one of the metadata encoding schemes listed in 3.3.3. | 3.2.4 |
| Content Provider provides data to support OpenURL resolution (). The resulting OpenURL should link to the item itself, or as close to it as possible in the content provider’s site structure. | 3.2.5 |
| Content Provider provides clear channels for reporting discovery related support issues. | 3.2.6 |
Completion of this checklist requires adding the following responses to the first column of the checklist above:
- A "Y" (for Yes) indicates conformance with the indicated paragraph of this Recommended Practice.
- A "P" (for Partial) indicates partial conformance for which explanatory comments should be entered in the last column.
- An "N" (for No) indicates that the content provider does not conform with the recommendation.