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| NASIG 2009: Moving Mountains of Cost Data --- Standards for ILS to ERMS to Vendors and Back
Describes the presentation by Dani Roach at the NASIG 2009 conference. Roach discusses the new NISO draft for trial use standard on the Cost of Resource Exchange (CORE) protocol which allows data to be transferred between and ILS and an ERMS. |
Eclectic Librarian Blog 05 Jun 2009 |
| 3M Library Systems Introduces Plug-In to Read Nonstandard RFID Tags
3M Library Systems introduces 3M Tag Data Manager's newest feature, a Non Standard Tag Data Interface Plug-In; this new feature gives the 3M Tag Data Manager the capability to read non-3M tags in nonstandard formats. The new offering allows libraries with ISO RFID Tags the option of upgrading their systems to 3M hardware without having to retag their existing collections. The company has long been a leader for standards in the library market, from its role in the development of Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP) 2.0, to its involvement with the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and International Organization for Standards (ISO). |
MoreRFID 27 May 2009 |
| New ISO standard will help national libraries to evaluate their performance
ISO/TR 28118:2009, Information and documentation - Performance indicators for national libraries, establishes the performance indicators that are relevant to the special tasks and services of national libraries. It was was developed by ISO technical committee ISO/TC 46, Information and documentation, subcommittee SC 8, Quality - Statistics and performance evaluation. |
Press Release 05 May 2009 |
| Bowker's Andy Weissberg Named to Board of Directors for International ISBN Agency
Emerging Thought Leader in Book Publishing Industry Selected to Join Prestigious Global Board |
Bowker Press Release 28 Apr 2009 |
| Digital Library Federation to Continue Programs in Council on Library and Information Resources
The Board of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today voted to merge the Digital Library Federation (DLF) into CLIR as a program of the Council, starting July 1, 2009. The vote follows recommendations by a DLF Review Committee in March 2009 to merge the two organizations, and a unanimous vote of consent by the DLF Board on April 8. |
DLF News Release 14 Apr 2009 |
| Innovative's Electronic Resource Management Leads Early Adoption of SUSHI 1.6
Innovative Interfaces announced today that the current release of its Electronic Resource Management (ERM) product leverages version 1.6 of the NISO Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI). The latest version of the SUSHI standard makes access to e-journal usage statistics within the Innovative ERM quick and simple. |
Press Release 10 Apr 2009 |
| DAISY Consortium Releases Open Source Multimedia Authoring Tool
The DAISY Consortium announces the release of Obi 1.0, a free, open source audio recording tool for the production of audio books which provide meaningful navigation. The output is fully conformant to the DAISY Standard (officially, the ANSI/NISO Z39.86 Specifications for the Digital Talking Book). Obi enables individual users with a minimal amount of training to produce digital content that is accessible to people with print disabilities such as blindness, dyslexia, or cognitive disabilities. |
DAISY Press Release 27 Mar 2009 |
| International Organization for Standardization Formally Publishes International Standard Text Code
The International ISTC Agency, the official Registration Authority for the International Standard Text Code (ISTC), today announced that the International Organization for Standardization has formally published ISO Standard 21047. The ISTC system provides a means of uniquely and persistently identifying textual works in information systems, and facilitates the exchange of information about such works between publishers, authors and authors associations, collective management organizations, libraries, search engines and others on an international level. The ISTC makes it possible to group products containing the same content, or even in some cases, different content with the same origins, together, optimizing their discoverability in search engines, retail and library cataloging systems. |
Press Release 19 Mar 2009 |
| DAISY Consortium's Collaboration with Microsoft Corporation Yields New Tools for Production and Playback of Accessible Multimedia
The DAISY Consortium and Microsoft Corporation announce the latest release of Save as DAISY, a free, open source add-in for Microsoft Office Word. With the integration of DAISY Pipeline Lite, Save as DAISY add-in Version 2 produces a full DAISY multimedia publication with synchronized text and MP3 audio, enabling users to transform Word documents into accessible multimedia formats for people unable to read print due to a visual, physical, perceptual, developmental, cognitive, or learning disability. |
Press Release 18 Mar 2009 |
| Metasearch: The New Paradigm in Web Search
Interview with Srishti Sofat, country manager, Infospace India about the new paradigm in Internet search engines, the Metasearch technology. Mentions NISO as using the terms Federated Search and Metasearch interchangeably to describe this web search paradigm. |
CXOToday.com 02 Mar 2009 |
| Search Web Services - The OASIS SWS Technical Committee Work
OASIS created the Search Web Services Technical Committee in 2008 to "define search and retrieval web services based on current technologies, most notably, Search and Retrieval via URL (SRU), Contextual Query Language (CQL), and OpenSearch." The group will also be producing revisions to SRU and CQL. SRU now incorporates its sister protocol, Search and Retrieve via Web Service (SRW), as a variant. Both SRU and SRW were developed as next generation internet-capable extensions of Z39.50. |
D-Lib Magazine 09 Feb 2009 |
| Save As DAISY odt2dtbook 1.1.0 Now Available
Odt2dtbook is an OpenOffice.org extension which supports export to DTBook (also known as DAISY XML, the text source of DAISY content). Save As DAISY odt2dtbook Version 1.1.0 was released January 5, 2009. Download is available on the OpenOffice.org Extensions page. |
News Release 06 Jan 2009 |
| More Libraries and Publishers Join SERU Agreement from NISO for E-Resources
For the growing number of publishers, libraries, and consortia that have signed on to the Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) from NISO (National Information Standards Organization), the best practices document can potentially relieve them from many of the more labor intensive license negotiation efforts. |
Library Journal 05 Jan 2009 |
| More Libraries and Publishers Join SERU Agreement from NISO for E-Resources
45 libraries, 1 consortia, and 15 publishers have signed on to use NISO's Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU)as an alternative to a license agreement for the acquisition of electronic resources. |
Library Journal 05 Jan 2009 |
| International Standard Text Code Agency Announces New Registration Agency Appointments
The International ISTC Agency, the official Registration Authority for the International Standard Text Code (ISTC), is pleased to announce its appointment of Bowker and Nielsen Book as ISTC registration agencies that are now authorized to assign ISTCs on behalf of publishers, authors and content owners. An approved ISO standard (ISO 21047), the ISTC provides a means of uniquely and persistently identifying textual works in information systems, and facilitates the exchange of information about such works between publishers, authors and authors associations, collective management organizations, libraries, search engines and others on an international level. |
Press Release 05 Jan 2009 |
| Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Incorporated in Singapore
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has completed the legal steps |
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative website 05 Jan 2009 |
| Improving OpenURL Metadata
Glen Wiley; Wm. Joseph Thomas. |
The Serials Librarian 01 Jan 2009 |
| Journal Title Display and Citation Practices
Authors: Les Hawkins; Regina Reynolds; Steven C. Shadle; and Deberah England. |
The Serials Librarian 01 Jan 2009 |
| Using Institutional and Library Identifiers to Ensure Access to Electronic Resources
Helen Henderson; Don Hamparian; John Shaw; Morag Boyd. |
The Serials Librarian 01 Jan 2009 |
| CORE: Cost of Resource Exchange
Ed Riding; Jeff Aipperspach; Ted Koppel; Susan Davis. |
The Serials Librarian 01 Jan 2009 |
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