Application Profiles

Overview
Application Profiles describe how the protocol is used to support a specific environment with a given set of practices and policies. This includes a description of services that must be supported, the required security environment etc. Each profile also provides an event table that maps specific external events and circumstances to the use of particular services specified in the protocol.

At the NCIP-IG meeting in June 2007, it was decided that previously published application profiles should be removed from the website. Those that were considered "current" would be resubmitted and reposted. If you are looking for an application profile that isn't available below, check the archives. In addition, it was determined that the Application Profiles area would be divided into Published and Draft. Whether an Application Profile is Published or Draft is determined by its author; there is no formal review and approval process.

Published Application Profiles

• Direct Consortial Borrowing
  • User Agency Manages Transaction
    This profile, referred to as the NCIP Direct Consortial Borrowing: User Agency Manages the Transaction (DCB-2) Profile of the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP), describes the functions, applications, and the operating environment in which a user agency’s policies related to privileges, circulation, renewals, fines, and all other circulation transactions manage the circulation transactions. This allows the user agency to authenticate the user within its own systems and determine if the transaction may take place. No matter which application initiates the transaction it is the user agency that determines whether or not the transaction proceeds and, sets the conditions of the transaction, e.g. due date. The user agency determines what, if any, User data is shared with its NCIP partner.

    Through Direct Consortial Borrowing (DCB), users of one agency can request and borrow items from another agency within a consortium. The NCIP facilitates the transfer of user and item data between disparate circulation applications, thereby allowing an agency to manage transactions for non-local patrons and/or provide local control of items belonging to another agency.

  • URSA
    This profile, referred to as the NCIP Direct Consortial Borrowing: URSA Application Profile (DCB-Dynix-URSA) of the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) describes the functions, applications, and the operating environment in which the URSA application manages the circulation transactions.

    Through Direct Consortial Borrowing (DCB), users of one agency can request and borrow items from another agency within a consortium. The NCIP facilitates the transfer of user and item data between disparate circulation applications, thereby allowing an agency to manage traffic for non-local patrons and/or provide local control of items belonging to another agency.

    Submitted by: Gail Wanner, SirsiDynix

  • INN-Reach DCB
    This profile, referred to as the NCIP Direct Consortial Borrowing: INN-REACH DCB Application Profile (INN-REACH DCB) of the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) describes the functions, applications, and the operating environment in which the INN-REACH DCB application manages the circulation transactions.

    Through the INN-Reach Direct Consortial Borrowing (DCB) application, users of one agency can request and borrow items from another agency within a consortium. This standard facilitates the transfer of user and item data between disparate circulation applications, thereby allowing an agency to manage traffic for non-local patrons and/or provide local control of items belonging to another agency. The INN-Reach DCB Application acts only as an initiator, never as a responder.

    Submitted by: Lynne Branche Brown, Innovative Interfaces

• Circulation
  • Item Arrival and Departure Notification (IADN)
    The Item Arrival and Departure Notification Application Profile of the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol is designed to alert applications interested in aspects of the receipt, the return, and the bibliographic description of interlibrary loan items. As a lightweight auxiliary protocol for use with ISO ILL Requester and Lender applications, it is designed to relieve clerical activities associated with the gathering and recording of such information by client applications.

    This profile is designed to support messaging between an ISO ILL application and applications interested in the items passing through that system. Its principle purpose is to provide a bibliographic description of ILL Items and signal their arrival and departure as implied by the raising of RECEIVED and RETURNED indications in the ISO ILL State Machine. Examples of such interested applications are circulation systems, statistics collecting applications, collection development applications, and other administrative/management modules.

    Submitted by: Mark Wilson, The Library Corporation

  • VDX Circ ILL - Borrowing Agency Profile
    This profile, referred to as the VDX Circ/ILL Borrowing Agency Application Profile is designed to provide a coherent agreed-upon set of behaviours, options, and parameterss that support the exchange of NCIP messages between the VDX Interlibrary Loan Application and a circulation application operating together on the borrowing side of an Interlibrary Loan transaction.

    This profile is designed to support the exchange of messages between a borrowing agency’s circulation and Interlibrary Loan (ILL) applications. Because ILL and circulation share many of the same functions such as tracking loaned items, sending overdue notices to users, etc., libraries are seeking applications that eliminate duplicate record-keeping and streamline functions, and thus, reduce workload for their staff.

    Submitted by: Ed Davidson, OCLC-PICA

  • VDX Circ ILL - Lending Agency Profile
    The NCIP Circulation/Interlibrary Loan Interaction: Lending Agency Profile of the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) is designed to provide one coherent, agreed-upon set of behaviors, options, and parameters to support the exchange of messages between circulation and Interlibrary Loan (ILL) applications on the lending side of the interlibrary loan transaction.

    This profile is designed to support the exchange of messages between a lending agency’s circulation and Interlibrary Loan (ILL) \ applications. Because ILL and circulation share many of the same functions such as tracking loaned Items, sending overdue notices to users, etc., libraries are seeking applications that eliminate duplicate record-keeping and streamline functions, and thus, reduce workload for their staff.

    Submitted by: Ed Davidson, OCLC-PICA