Upcoming Events
February 8: NISO Open Call: Single Sign-On (SSO) Authentication (free!)
February 10: NISO Webinar: What It Takes To Make It Last: E-Resources Preservation
March 8: NISO Open Call: ERM Data Standards and Best Practices Review Working Group Update (free!)
March Two-Part Webinar: Identifiers: New Problems, New Solutions
• March 10: What’s in a Name? Latest Developments in Identifiers
• March 17: Content Identification: What’s New with ISO Identifiers, ISBN and ISTC
March 23 (Atlanta, GA) – Discovery to Delivery: Creating a First-Class User Experience
2009 Presentations Now Available
- The Changing Standards Landscape (NISO/BISG Forum)
- Library Systems & Interoperability (Webinar)
- Performance Measures and Assessment (Forum)
- New Applications of Usage Data (Webinar)
- COUNTER: A How-To Guide (Webinar)
- KBART & the OpenURL (Webinar)
- Data Movement & Management (Webinar)
- SSO Authentication (Webinar)
- Digital Preservation (Webinar)
NISO 2010 Education Calendar Now Available; Visit to find out more about 2010 Education Discounts --- UKSG and NISO Release First KBART Recommendations for Improved OpenURL Data Supply --- February 10 - NISO Webinar: What It Takes To Make It Last: E-Resources Preservation
NISO News and Events
Latest News
NISO to Develop Recommended Practice for Physical Delivery of Library Materials
Document aims to facilitate library resource sharing
November 11, 2009 - Baltimore, MD - The National Information
Standards Organization (NISO) Voting Members have approved a new work
item to develop a Recommended Practice related to the physical delivery
of library materials. NISO is pleased to announce that the Working
Group roster for this project is now finalized, and work will be
commencing with a kick-off call of the group on November 18, 2009.
Building on the efforts of three recent projects--Moving Mountains,
Rethinking Resource Sharing's Physical Delivery Committee, and the
American Library Association's ASCLA ICANS' Physical Delivery
Discussion Group-the recommended practice document is proposed to
include recommendations for: packaging, shipping codes, labeling,
acceptable turn-around time, lost or damaged materials handling,
package tracking, ergonomic considerations, statistics, sorting, a set
of elements to be used for comparison purposes to determine costs,
linking of regional and local library carriers, and international
delivery. More>>>
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Featured Event
ONIX for Publication Licenses: Adding Structure to Legalese
December 9, 2009 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
About the Webinar
Communicating to other on staff at the library and to end-users the
terms that have been negotiated in a license arrangement is not an easy
process. Simplification and distribution of the information in a
license are critical components to greater distribution and
understanding. ONIX for Publication License (PL) is a structure of
encoding and sharing in a machine-readable format the terms that exist
in a license. This seminar will update attendees on the application and
use of ONIX-PL. It will also explore future developments in the
management of electronic resources. Speakers include Rick Burke (Executive Director, SCELC), Wilma Mossink (Juridisch Adviseur/Legal Adviser, SURFfoundation), and Mark Bide (Executive Director, EDItEUR). More>>>
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Media Coverage
Find out who else is talking about NISO and its members on our Media Coverage page.SwetsWise provides COUNTER 3 compliant usage data (Press Release, November 12, 2009)
Swets is pleased to announce that SwetsWise Online Content has been successfully audited for compliancy with Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice. Swets utilizes the SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) standard to provide XML usage reports within SwetsWise. This standard has been created by NISO (National Information Standards Organization) and is also known under the name Z39.93 (www.niso.org). SUSHI protocol allows the user to obtain the reports through a web service in a XML format which must be compliant to defined XML schemas.