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Discovery to Delivery Standards Portfolio

The following NISO standards fall under the Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee.

In development:

Metasearch Initiative - Task Group 1 - Access Management (Committee BA)

Metasearch Initiative - Task Group 2 - Collection Description (Committee BB)

Metasearch Initiative - Task Group 3 - Search/Retrieve (Committee BC)

Existing standards:

ANSI/NISO Z39.50-2003 Information Retrieval : Application Service Definition & Protocol Specification

ANSI/NISO Z39.74-1996 (R2002) Guides to Accompany Microform Sets

ANSI/NISO Z39.83 - Circulation Interchange Part 2: Protocol Implementation Profile 1 - 2002

ANSI/NISO Z39.88 -2004 The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services

ANSI/NISO Z39.89 - The U.S. National Z39.50 Profile for Library Applications - 2003

ANSI/NISO Z39.92 - 200x Information Retrieval Service Description Specification