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April 2013 Working Group Connection
May 2013 Newsline
Table of Contents
NISO Reports
- Bibliographic Roadmap Development Project Meeting Report
- NISO May Webinar: Taking Full Advantage: Discovery of Open Access Content
- NISO/DCMI May Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service
- NISO June Webinar: A Content Stream Runs Through It: Managing Streaming Media Collections in Libraries
- NISO/BISG 7th Annual Changing Standards Landscape Forum: E-Books: Discovery & Metadata Exchange, File Formats and Functionality, and Meeting Patron Needs
- NISO @ ALA Annual
- New on the NISO Website
New Specs & Standards
- Book Industry Study Group, Pilot Draft of Thema Global Subject Codes Published
- ISO/IEC 10918-5:2013, Information technology – Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still images: JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF)
Media Stories
- So That's What "RAND" Means?: A Brief Report on the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law in Microsoft v. Motorola
- Separated At Birth: Library and Publisher Metadata
- Discovering Reciprocity
- The Many Faces of Article-Level Metrics
- A Matter of Perspective – Elsevier Acquires Mendeley… or, Mendeley Sells Itself to Elsevier