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September 2013 Newsline
Table of Contents
NISO Reports
- Draft KBART Recommended Practice Revision Available for Comment
- Educational Opportunities for Forthcoming ResourceSync Standard
- First Training Webinar for the ONIX-PL Encodings Project
- NISO Altmetrics Project First Meeting Scheduled for October 9 in San Francisco
- September Two-Part Webinar: Research Data Curation
- September NISO/DCMI Webinar: Implementing Linked Data in Developing Countries and Low-Resource Conditions
- October Webinar: Knowledge in Your Pocket: Mobile Technology and Libraries
- New on the NISO Website
New Specs & Standards
- ARMA International, Call for Participation: Understanding Electronic Records Storage Technologies
- ARMA International, Call for Participation: RIM Review Group
- FIPS PUB 186-4, Digital Signature Standard (DSS)
- ISO 27729/Cor1:2013, Technical Corrigendum to ISO 27729, International Standard Name Identifier
- ISO 2789:2013, Information and documentation – International library statistics
- W3C Launches Web and Mobile Interest Group
- W3C RDFa Working Group, Three RDFa Recommendations Published
Media Stories
- Tracking Citations and Altmetrics for Research Data: Challenges and Opportunities
- Promising Practices in Instruction of Discovery Tools
- Does Digital Scholarship Have a Future?
- Open Access to Research Publications Reaching 'Tipping Point'
- Google Calls Book Scanning "Transformative" in Latest Push for Fair Use Ruling