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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. Note: The ISTC standard was developed by the committee ISO TC46/SC9,for which NISO is the Secretariat.	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. The DAISY Digital Talking Book is a NISO standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.86).	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. Note: The ISTC standard was developed by the committee ISO TC46/SC9,for which NISO is the Secretariat.	Press Release 05 Jan 2009
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Incorporated in Singapore The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has completed the legal steps for incorporation as a public, not-for-profit Company limited by Guarantee in Singapore. The founding members of the new legal entity are the National Library Board Singapore and the National Library of Finland. The other DCMI Affiliates, the Joint Information Systems Commission (JISC) in the UK, the National Library, National Archives and the State Services Commission of New Zealand and the National Library of Korea, will become Members in the weeks ahead.	Dublin Core Metadata Initiative website 05 Jan 2009
Improving OpenURL Metadata Glen Wiley; Wm. Joseph Thomas. The Serials Librarian, Volume 56, Issue 1 - 4 January 2009 , pages 282 - 286. The creation and widespread adoption of the OpenURL standard has improved the visibility, and therefore the usage, of libraries' online holdings, although there are some times when OpenURLs fail to resolve. To better understand why problems occur and encourage network-level solutions, librarians at Cornell University have begun working on a study of OpenURL metadata quality. Their goal is to create a systematic approach to assessing and validating metadata quality so that libraries and content providers may collaborate on solutions for metadata problems. OpenURL is a NISO standard (Z39.88).	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, Volume 56, Issue 1 - 4 January 2009 , pages 271 - 281. 2008 NASIG presentation on "how lack of metadata and citation practices result in users not finding content and libraries not getting access to content for which they paid." One goal was generating interest to form a collaborative effort in establishing a NISO working group to develop best practices with journal title display and citation practice.	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, Volume 56, Issue 1 - 4 January 2009 , pages 255 - 259. Institutional identifiers are intended to uniquely and permanently identify a library or subscribing institution for a content provider. This presentation covered the role of an identifier in improving delivery of serials and electronic resources from content providers to subscribers, identification efforts to date, the interaction of an identifier within the network of standards, and the effort to standardize the identifier. Institutional Identifiers (I2) is a NISO project.	The Serials Librarian 01 Jan 2009
CORE: Cost of Resource Exchange Ed Riding; Jeff Aipperspach; Ted Koppel; Susan Davis. The Serials Librarian, Volume 56, Issue 1 - 4 January 2009 , pages 246 - 249. The presenters recognized a need for a way to extract and exchange acquisitions data from integrated library systems into electronic resource management systems. They developed a proposal for CORE, cost of resource exchange, a standard to allow for cross platform exchange of relevant information. CORE is a NISO project.	The Serials Librarian 01 Jan 2009
KBART: Best Practices in Knowledgebase Data Transfer Peter McCracken; Michael A. Arthur. The Serials Librarian, Volume 56, Issue 1 - 4 January 2009 , pages 230 - 235. Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) is a joint project between the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the UK Serials Group (UKSG) that is now underway with a focus on improving the functioning of OpenURL by providing standards for the quality and timeliness of data provided by publishers to knowledgebases. In this presentation Peter McCracken, Co-founder of Serials Solutions, provided an overview of KBART and discussed the future plans of this new initiative.	The Serials Librarian 01 Jan 2009
Springer joins SERU initiative Reprint of press release announcing Springer's adoption of NISO's Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU). "Springer has adopted SERU as a means to streamline the sales cycle wherever possible, removing obstacles for those clients who have difficulty processing detailed legal documents, and allowing for improved cash flow for our growing portfolio of online publications."	Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News website 04 Dec 2008
Dialog Launches File History Linking and Options for Open URL 1.0 Dialog's popular eLinks service, which hyperlinks from an abstract record directly to full text, now allows customers to choose the Open URL 1.0 standard for accessing links, or to continue to use the default URL 0.1 standard. OpenURL 1.0 is a NISO standard (Z39.88).	Press Release 02 Dec 2008
Portico, NISO announce preservation agreement Portico, US, has announced an agreement with the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) to preserve its online publication, Information Standards Quarterly.	KnowledgeSpeak 18 Nov 2008
EBSCO server puts Sushi on database menu EBSCO is the first database provider to introduce a SUSHI server. The NISO SUSHI standard automates the retrieval of usage data reports, such as those in COUNTER format.	Press Release 08 Oct 2008

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