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NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Development Project 

In November 2012, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation generously provided the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) with a grant to support an initiative to develop a community roadmap that will help support movement toward a future bibliographic information exchange ecosystem. The goal of this project is to collectively determine the needs and requirements of the library, higher education, and non-profit networked information communities to ensure they are able to use and exchange bibliographic data in an increasingly networked, linked data environment.    

Over the course of the next nine months, NISO will host one face-to-face meeting in the United States and several global webinars, as well as organize at least three working group efforts during the periods between webinars. These meetings will be conducted to explore priorities and coordinate the requirements of key communities including: libraries of all types including national libraries; technologists such as those involved in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) projects; library system providers; and other international standards development organizations. The end result of this work will be a report that will identify exchange points where standards development is needed and document suggested areas where functionality testing should be performed. It should help pinpoint at a high level the development priorities and coordination points needed over the next 24-36 months.

Extract of the Proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

In-person meeting, April 15-16, 2013, Baltimore, MD

NISO hosted a free and open in-person meeting in Baltimore on Monday-Tuesday, April 15-16, 2013 to engage the public conversation on the development of the Bibliographic Roadmap. This un-conference-style gathering is being used to elicit and prioritize themes for greater discussion over the coming months.  The meeting was held at the Tremont Grand Hotel in downtown Baltimore.   A live stream was broadcast, as well as forums for engaging and gathering input from virtual participants. 

1. Roadmap Meeting Agenda 

Google sites document output of meeting brainstorming

Tweet archive - hashtag #nisobibrm

2. Roadmap Meeting Attendees

3. Video recording:

AVIAC Meeting at ALA Annual Conference

Monday, July 1, 2013
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Location: McCormick Place Convention Center (MCP) - N227a

Join NISO for a meeting of interested parties and an update of the Bibliographic Roadmap project as we engage the community to continue the conversation related to this project during ALA's Annual conference in Chicago. 

View slides from Todd Carpenter's presentation Whither Bibliographic Data? Designing a roadmap to a new bibliographic information ecosystem.

January 17 Launch Teleconference (OPEN) - Call Recording (MP3-approx.60 minutes)

Google Groups Link 

NISO hosted an open community teleconference to launch this project on Thursday, January 17 at 9:00 ET (UTC -5:00).  The purpose of the  call was to introduce the community to this project, outline our goals, answer any questions and begin to map out planning the project and identify dates and locations for the in-person meeting that the Mellon Foundation has funded.  We expect the call will take about 60 minutes.

The call was recorded and a recording is available via the link above.