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Monday, 21st June 2010

Standards and Recommended Practices: NISO: Number of Development Projects Underway at All-Time High

From an Announcement:

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has launched six new standard or recommended practice development projects in the past six months. There are now more development projects underway than at any time in NISO's history.

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"Many of the new projects are joint efforts with other organizations," Karen Wetzel, NISO Standards Program Manager, points out, "or are expansions on work begun by others in our community. This is a reflection of NISO's outreach in recent years to organizations working in related areas."

The Six New Project Working Groups are:

1. Working Group: E-journal Presentation & Identification

...will develop a NISO Recommended Practice for the presentation and identification of e-journals to improve the title listings and supporting metadata on journal websites and to particularly address the issue of titles that change names or publishers.

2. Working Group: Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics (IOTA)

...investigating the feasibility of creating industry-wide, transparent, and scalable metrics for evaluating and comparing the quality of OpenURL implementations across content.

3. Working Group: RFID in Libraries Revision

...will produce a revision of the NISO Recommended Practice, RFID in U.S. Libraries (NISO RP 6-2008). The related ISO standard on RFID in libraries is in the final stages of development, with publication expected in late 2010.

4. Working Group: Standardized Markup for Journal Articles Working Group

...will take the currently existing National Library of Medicine (NLM) Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite version 3.0, the three journal article schemas, and the documentation and shepherd it through the NISO standardization process.

5. NISO/NFAIS Supplemental Journal Article Materials

...two working groups—one to focus on business issues, the other on technical issues—were launched to together develop a Recommended Practice for publisher inclusion, handling, display, and preservation of supplemental journal article materials.

6. NISO/UKSG Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Phase 2

...takes up the outstanding items that were identified in the January 2010 recommended practice, KBART: Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (NISO RP-9-2010). The group will develop a second recommended practice focusing on the more advanced, complex issues that cause problems in utilizing OpenURL knowledge bases. The group will also deliver a centralized information portal to support educational activities.

Access the Complete Announcement for More Info

Source: National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

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