scope:

This Implementation Profile addresses the choices and expectations for successfully implementing a compliant and effective SUSHI service delivering consistent and comparable COUNTER XML reports compliant with Release 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice. This document focuses on the use of the various XML schemas that provide for the delivery of COUNTER reports via SUSHI.

Purpose

This Implementation Profile has been developed to improve the consistency and interoperability of SUSHI client and server implementations. This profile offers guidance to developers of SUSHI server and client applications by setting out detailed expectations for how the SUSHI protocol and COUNTER XML reports are to be implemented so that they effectively meet the needs of the information community that relies on these reports to provide consistent, credible, and comparable usage statistics. This profile was also developed with the intention that it be used by COUNTER auditors as a means to verify compliance of a content provider's SUSHI server.