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February 2010 Issue Now Available!
Featuring:
NISO Reports
- February Webinar: What It Takes To Make It Last: E-Resources Preservation
- March Two-Part Webinar: Identifiers: New Problems, New Solutions
- NISO Forum on Discovery to Delivery: Creating a First-Class User Experience
- UKSG and NISO Release First KBART Recommendations for Improved OpenURL Data Supply
New Specs & Standards
- New DCMI/NKOS Task Group Established
- ISO 12620:2009, Terminology and other language and content resources – Specification of data categories and management of a Data Category Registry for language resources
- ISO/ IEC 12785-1:2009, Information technology – Learning, education, and training – Content packaging – Part 1: Information model
- Library of Congress, MARC Discussion Papers: ISNI & ISTC, URIs, ISBD Punctuation
- W3C Working Draft, Updated Draft: Use Cases and Requirements for Ontology and API for Media Resource 1.0
Media Stories
- Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata
- "The Future of Our Business ... Is About Data": A Q&A With New Industry Study Group Executive Director Scott Lubeck
- Google Exposes Book Metadata Privates at ALA Forum
- RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use
- Open Source Clouds On The Rise