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Discovery to Delivery
Topic Committee

Committee Description

The NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee was formed in early 2007 in response to a strategic restructuring. As part of NISO's organizational structure, topic committees that bring together leaders in specific subjects have been created to provide direction to the organization for standards development in those umbrella topic areas. The Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee focuses on issues regarding the finding and distribution of information by and to users, including OpenURL, Metasearch, interface design, web services, etc.

The topic committee is charged with the following tasks:

  • Track standards development within NISO and in other standards organizations related to the topic.
  • Identify where new standards may provide solutions in their specific area.
  • Convene Thought Leader meetings to incubate new standards activities.
  • Create and provide guidance and oversight to standards working groups under their purview.
  • Manage the five-year reaffirmation process for approved standards.

The work of this group is complemented by NISO's Business Information Topic Committee, Content & Collection Management Topic Committee, and Architecture Committee.

Committee Roster

Committee Co-chairs

  • Timothy (Tim) Shearer
    Web Development Coordinator
    The University Library
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    sheat@ils.unc.edu
    Term: 6/30/08-6/30/10; extended to 6/30/12
    (Joined the topic committee in 2007)
     
  • Robert (Rob) Walsh
    President
    EnvisionWare
    rwalsh@envisionware.com
    Term: Term: 7/19/10-7/19/13
    (Joined the topic committee 6/30/09)

Committee Members

David Fiander
Digital Services Librarian
University of Western Ontario
dfiander@uwo.ca
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10; extended to 6/30/12

Lucy Harrison
Director, Product Development & Management
College Center for Library Automation
LHarrison@cclaflorida.org
Term: 10/31/11-10/31/14

Peter Murray
Assistant Director
LYRASIS
Peter.Murray@lyrasis.org
Term: 2/22/10-2/22/13

 

John Mark Ockerbloom
Digital Library Architect and Planner
University of Pennsylvania
ockerblo@pobox.upenn.edu
Term: 2/22/10-2/22/13

Jeff Penka
Portfolio Director for End User Services
OCLC
penkaj@oclc.org 
Term: 11/17/10-11/17/13

Chris Shillum
Vice President, Product Technology
Reed Elsevier
c.shillum@elsevier.com
Term: 11/17/10-11/17/13

Ex Officio Members