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What's going on with NISO in 2013?

Nettie Lagace�NISO Associate Director for Programs

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NISO = National Information Standards Organization

  • Non-profit industry trade association �accredited by ANSI with 150+ members�
  • Mission of developing and maintaining standards �related to information, documentation, discovery and �distribution of published materials and media�
  • Represent US interests to ISO TC46 (Information and Documentation) and also serve as Secretariat for ISO TC46/SC 9 (Identification and Description)�
  • Responsible for standards like ISSN, DOI, Dublin Core metadata, DAISY digital talking books, OpenURL, SIP, NCIP, MARC records and ISBN (indirectly)�
  • Volunteer driven organization: 400+ spread out across the world

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ResourceSync Framework Specification - Beta Draft

Collaborative work between NISO and the Open Archives Initiative

For real-time, accurate synchronization for large-scale Web-based collections�

http://www.openarchives.org/rs/0.5/resourcesync

... Feedback requested by March 15

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A range of easy to implement capabilities that a server may support in order to enable remote systems to remain more tightly in step with its evolving resources.

Also describes how a server can advertise the capabilities it supports; remote systems can inspect this information to determine how best to remain aligned with the evolving data.

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/vandesompel/09vandesompel.html

http://dlib.org/dlib/january13/klein/01klein.html

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Spec for Open Access �Metadata and Indicators

  • Researchers and institutions want to ensure compliance with funder conditions.
  • Publishers want to signal that the services they provide are compliant with funder requirements.
  • Downstream users want to determine what research is accessible to them, or to determine what re-use rights they have.�
  • Create: standardized set of metadata elements that can be shared
  • Two levels:
    • identify elements that describe the accessibility of specific articles, i.e. can this specific article be openly accessed from an arbitrary point on the internet?
    • re-use rights.
  • Liaise with CrossMark, HowOpenIsIt?, Vocabularies for OA (V4OA), ONIX-PL, Linked Content Coalition, NISO ODI

Working Group forming now!

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NISO's Bibliographic �Roadmap Initiative

  • Develop consensus around a community roadmap of needed activities related to the future of bibliographic information exchange�
  • Initiative coordination / Gap identification / Economic analysis / Engage diverse players / Open process�
  • Open Community Meeting, April 15-16, 2013, Baltimore/DC area�
  • Meeting goals:
    • Identify/discuss active projects
    • Brainstorm existing gaps
    • Prioritize 3-6 subtopics
    • Plan deeper exploration of issues
    • Diversify players in discussion

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http://www.niso.org/publications/newsline/��

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nlagace@niso.org

nettie@niso.org

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