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Preservation and the World Wide Web

by Todd Carpenter
Discusses the problems with preserving information on the web or in social media like Twitter and Facebook. Mentions several efforts for dealing with this including DOIs, the Library of Congress preservation of Twitter posts, and the Los Alamos National Library Momento project.

Against the Grain
28 Mar 2011
NISO IOTA: Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics, in Context

by Adam L. Chandler.
Describes the origins of the NISO Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics (IOTA)working group, their repository for collecting and reporting on OpenURLs, and the next steps for their effor to improve OpenURL quality.

Against the Grain
28 Mar 2011
NISO Webinar: It's Only as Good as the Metadata: Improving OpenURL and Knowledge Base Quality

Sarah Glassera, Contributor and Kurt Blythe, Serials Spoken Here Column Editor provide a summary of the NISO webinar on OpenURL and Knowledge Base Quality held October 13, 2010.

Serials Review, Volume 37, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 58-60
01 Mar 2011
The NISO Institutional Identifiers (I2) Working Group: An Update

By Mark Needleman. An update on the work of the National Information Standards Organization Institutional Identifiers (I2) Working Group.

Serials Review, Volume 37, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 61-62
01 Mar 2011
Facilitating physics searches

Access Innovations has teamed with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) to convert AIP's Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS) into a thesaurus for its nearly 2 million online scholarly articles indexed by PACS. The resulting thesaurus is compliant with ISO (International Organization for Standardization), NISO (National Information Standards Organization) and W3C (Worldwide Web Consortium) standards.

KMWorld
04 Aug 2010
KAVI Case Study: National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) needed an easier way to follow rigorous ANSI requirements for developing information standards, and a smarter way to help work groups collaborate to create, revise and manage documents. Kavi was the only software suite specifically designed for standards development and therefore extremely appropriate for NISO. What NISO found in Kavi Workspace was an application that integrates document management and email communication, keeps meticulous records kept for document revisions and tracks voting in case of an ANSI audit. All of this is accomplished with a solution that is highly configurable and easy to use.

Kavi Workspace Case Study
14 Jul 2010
KBART - improving content visibility through collaboration

Article by Sarah Pearson that explores the importance of OpenURL and knowledge bases to the information community as a whole and provides an overview and update of the role that the KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools) project has to play in improving knowledge base metadata.

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community
01 Jul 2010
Senate Confirms New Members of IMLS Advisory Board

On June 22, 2010, the Senate confirmed five individuals to serve on the National Museum and Library Services Board, which advises the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Included among the appointees is NISO Board Member, Winston Tabb, the Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at the Johns Hopkins University.

Press Release
24 Jun 2010
CNI Podcast: Karen Wetzel on Creating Standards for Supplemental Journal Article Materials

Karen A. Wetzel is the Standards Program Manager for NISO, the National Information Standards Organization. She manages the process of standards development, oversee activities of the technical committees creating NISO standards, and organizes outreach and education programs related to those standards. Wetzel spoke with EDUCAUSE at the Coalition for Networked Information 2010 Spring Member Meeting, where she presented the session, "Standards and Best Practices for Datasets and Other Supplemental Journal Article Materials."

EDUCAUSE Gerry Bayne's blog
14 Apr 2010
ONIX for Publications Licenses: Getting an Electronic Grip on License Information

Based on the work of the Digital Library Federation's (DLF's) Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI) and EDItEUR's work on the ONIX (ONline Information eXchange) structure for communicating publisher data, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and these partners have worked to develop and improve ONIX for Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL), a system for storing and communicating the terms of a license between systems in XML format. This article outlines the history of ERMI, license management issues, and the status of ONIX-PL. It also presents developments over the past year since ONIX-PL was launched officially, describing the potential benefits of the application.

The Serials Librarian, Volume 58, Issue 1 - 4 January 2010 , pages 79 - 86
15 Jan 2010
NetRead Announces ONIX 3.0 Implementation

NetRead Software and Services, LLC, a solutions-provider to the book industry, announced the release of its ONIX 3.0 upgrade. Its signature software application, JacketCaster, now supports the distribution of the latest version of ONIX. Significant changes in this version include the section on Sets/Series, and the block addressing digital works.

Press Release
10 Jan 2010
Scott Lubeck Appointed New BISG Executive Director

Scott Lubeck, most recently Vice President of Technology for Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional and Education, has been appointed Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG), and will preside over the January 21, 2010 BISG Board of Directors Meeting.

Press Release
05 Jan 2010
IDPF Board of Directors Election Results December 2009

Voting closed to fill the seven open IDPF Board of Director seats, plus position of IDPF President at 2400 EST on Thursday December 17th. George Kerscher, DAISY Consortium was elected IDPF President.

Events: IDPF Voting: Board Nomination
18 Dec 2009
COUNTER and Usage Data: A Two-Part Webinar

COUNTER and Usage Data: A Two-Part Webinar was offered through the joint cooperation of NISO (National Information Standards Organization) and Project COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources). The first part was held May 6, 2009, and consisted of three presentations. The second part was held May 13, and also consisted of three presentations. This paper summarizes the two webinars.

Serials Review, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2009, Pages 292-296
01 Dec 2009
SwetsWise provides COUNTER 3 compliant usage data

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.

Press Release
12 Nov 2009
Bibliographic Control Alphabet Soup: AACR to RDA and the Evolution of MARC: a Webinar Report

Report on the NISO webinar held October 14 that provided background and an overview of RDA and the significant changes from AACR2. Also presented were the results of a study of the use of MARC fields by catalogers. MARC has 200 fields and 800 subfields.
Only 4% of fields account for 80% of all records.

How to Catalog a Hiccup Blog
10 Nov 2009
Lake case sets important precedent that metadata is part of a requested document

Todd Carpenter [Managing Director, National Information Standards Organization]: "Last week, the Supreme Court of Arizona issued a ruling overturning a lower court on whether file metadata must be turned over in a public records request. The ruling [PDF file] essentially binds the inherent file metadata within the file itself. In its finding, the court ruled that the plaintiff's request for the administrative metadata records was indistinguishable from the request for the public records themselves.

Jurist
04 Nov 2009
NISO Forum [Library Resource Management Systems] - Trends and Thoughts

"Earlier this month, I went to the NISO Forum on library resource management systems, which was conveniently located right here in the Financial District of Boston. The program was fantastic, and the presentations are now available and well worth a look, even in slide format.

A number of words, themes, and ideas resonated throughout the two-day program:..."

Ab's Blog
29 Oct 2009
Music to My Ears: New International Standard Updates Printed Music Identifier

The newly revised international standard, ISO 10957:2009, Information and documentation - International standard music number (ISMN), updates the International Standard Music Number (ISMN), a unique number that identifies printed music, to follow the same 13-digit format as ISBN.

ANSI News
22 Oct 2009
Waffles and Taxonomies

"Along with smothered and covered hash browns, everything you can learn everything you need to know about taxonomy at Waffle House." Suggests NISO's Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies (Z39.19) for further information.

Infonomics
01 Sep 2009

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