The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is seeking trial users and comments on the draft technical report, SUSHI-Lite: Deploying SUSHI as a lightweight protocol for exchanging usage via web services, NISO TR-06-201X. This technical report proposes and describes a method of exchanging COUNTER statistics ranging from usage for a single article to a complete COUNTER report, using commonly used approaches to web services. The SUSHI-Lite technical report does not replace the SUSHI standard but rather supplements it with an alternative approach for requesting and exchanging usage.
SUSHI-Lite supports modern, commonly used approaches to web services, such as RESTful interfaces and JSON data formats. This optional implementation of SUSHI using current-day practices also includes mechanisms for including additional filters and report attributes which support limits of scope for data and further controls for format and completeness of data in returned sets.
The draft technical report is open for public comment through September 30, 2015. To download the draft or submit online comments, interested parties may visit the SUSHI Lite Working Group web page at http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/sushi_lite/.
