About NCIP
NCIP is intended to address interoperability between self-service applications and circulation applications, between and among various circulation applications, between circulation and interlibrary loan applications, and between other related applications.
The demand for self-service applications led to the development of the 3M Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP) which has become the de facto standard interface for self-service applications. This Standard supports the deployment of self-service applications by building on experience obtained from the broad use of the 3M SIP. And while SIP addresses self-service transactions, it is not sufficient to address interlibrary loan, resource-sharing and other transactions that might be needed between disparate circulation systems.
NCIP was developed to address these additional needs related to resource-sharing while also addressing the self-service transactions. In addition, NCIP is extensible and is intended to evolve as needed to address unforeseen interactions that require communication with circulation systems.
In the absence of an agreed-upon standard for exchanging circulation data, interoperability among disparate applications has been ad hoc and proprietary. The cost of such solutions is high for individual agencies and these solutions often provide for only a limited exchange of data because proprietary solutions limit the number of implementations that can participate in the exchange.
The demand for self-service applications led to the development of the 3M Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP) which has become the de facto standard interface for self-service applications. This Standard supports the deployment of self-service applications by building on experience obtained from the broad use of the 3M SIP. And while SIP addresses self-service transactions, it is not sufficient to address interlibrary loan, resource-sharing and other transactions that might be needed between disparate circulation systems.
NCIP was developed to address these additional needs related to resource-sharing while also addressing the self-service transactions. In addition, NCIP is extensible and is intended to evolve as needed to address unforeseen interactions that require communication with circulation systems.
In the absence of an agreed-upon standard for exchanging circulation data, interoperability among disparate applications has been ad hoc and proprietary. The cost of such solutions is high for individual agencies and these solutions often provide for only a limited exchange of data because proprietary solutions limit the number of implementations that can participate in the exchange.
