Research Entitlements Standard

Download Research Entitlements Standard Documentation:

Overview
Common Elements Taxonomy
User Permissioning Taxonomy
Reports Taxonomy
XML Schema and Sample Files (Zipped)

Release overview:

Release Number	Changes

Release 1.0 February 10th 2006	First version of the RES
Release 2.0 September 18th 2006	Major Changes: added tiered permissioning capability, readership reporting taxonomy, and XML Schema. There is a new structure to the standard documentation: All the things related to permissioning individuals (request, reply, tiered permissioning) have been put together in one document: “User Entitlements Taxonomy” All the reports have been put together into one document: “Reports Taxonomy” There is now a separate document for “Overview” of the standard, and another that describes the “Common Elements” i.e. those things that repeat themselves such as “Individual”, “Client”, etc. This was intended to make for easier reading of the standard. Some changes have been made to the previous content of the standard. These are intended to be backwards compatible, but they can appear to be quite different: The Tiered Permissioning standard has meant making some changes to our pending requests report, request and reply. The “Reply” has been renamed to “Entitlement Instruction”, reflecting that it can now be sent directly to vendors without a request coming in first. The “Entitlement Instruction” now has a new feature: the ability to define links between user groups and product/content (groups). The reports now include one that shows the links between user groups and product/content (groups). The XML schema has led to a renaming of some of the taxonomy entities, and a normalisation across all the entities such that (e.g.) “Individual” in one document is now the same as “Individual” in another. This is a relatively small change, but makes automation far simpler.

Release Number

Changes

Release 1.0 February 10th 2006

First version of the RES

Release 2.0 September 18th 2006

Major Changes: added tiered permissioning capability, readership reporting taxonomy, and XML Schema.
There is a new structure to the standard documentation:

All the things related to permissioning individuals (request, reply, tiered permissioning) have been put together in one document: “User Entitlements Taxonomy”
All the reports have been put together into one document: “Reports Taxonomy”
There is now a separate document for “Overview” of the standard, and another that describes the “Common Elements” i.e. those things that repeat themselves such as “Individual”, “Client”, etc. This was intended to make for easier reading of the standard.

Some changes have been made to the previous content of the standard. These are intended to be backwards compatible, but they can appear to be quite different:

The Tiered Permissioning standard has meant making some changes to our pending requests report, request and reply.

The “Reply” has been renamed to “Entitlement Instruction”, reflecting that it can now be sent directly to vendors without a request coming in first.

The “Entitlement Instruction” now has a new feature: the ability to define links between user groups and product/content (groups).

The reports now include one that shows the links between user groups and product/content (groups).

The XML schema has led to a renaming of some of the taxonomy entities, and a normalisation across all the entities such that (e.g.) “Individual” in one document is now the same as “Individual” in another. This is a relatively small change, but makes automation far simpler.