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Why Standards Matter
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Report on the TC 46 Plenary Meeting
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By Patricia R. Harris, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization
Standards, Standards Everywhere
As we start a New Year it is good to step back, take stock, and reconnect with
the core values that motivate us and inspire what we do. One of my favorite
touchstones is a small button in my collection of standards memorabilia that
proclaims "The Wonderful Thing About Standards is That There Are So Many to
Choose From". How true! The International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) sponsors almost 200 technical committees working on a startling variety
of topics including four technical committees standardizing shoes and
footwear, groups standardizing fertilizers and freight containers, medical
instruments and geomatics. ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
has accredited over 400 standards developers in the U.S., including one group
that standardizes aerial acrobatics. The last edition of the national directory of
standards developers commissioned by the National Institute of Standards
and Technology listed over 700 standards developing groups operating as
associations and consortia, in government and the private sector, in industrial
and corporate settings, responsible for over 90,000 national standards. On a
worldwide scale recent reports from NIST point to almost 800,000 global standards. This is a lot of standards!
Standards are a big business. We are surrounded by standards in all areas of
our daily routine and our professional decision making. But in the end, the
test of any great standard is that it becomes so ingrained and "a part of the system" that the user does not give it a second thought. And, therein lies the rub!
Standards, I have learned, do not emerge without costs, without time, without
effort and contributions from the individuals and businesses that embrace a
vision and are committed to addressing and solving a problem they share.
Standards Evolution
In the U.S. the "big business" that standards are today has evolved over two
hundred years. Standards historians point to Eli Whitney's contribution to the
war effort in a newly-launched United States as an example of how standards
thinking was born:
In 1798, our (USA) government was in need of more and more
arms. Jefferson, then Vice President, signed a contract which bound
Eli Whitney to supply ten thousand muskets in two years. At the
end of the first year, only five hundred had been delivered, a production of less than two a day. The two years expired and so did
Whitney's contract. Necessity became the mother of invention.
Urged by the government, Whitney submitted to a board of experts
the assembly parts of ten muskets and in their presence assembled
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from ten identical barrels, ten identical stocks,
and ten identical triggers, the first ten standardized rifles. By introducing the principle of
interchangeable parts for armament production, he thus became the father of mass
production for war purposes.
A feature in the January 2002 Wired, details the story
behind William Sellers' development of the standard screw
thread in the 19th century to present a case study in the
power of standards. The parallels the author draws to the
path of wireless standardization in the U.S. and Europe
over the last twenty years unveils the complexities and
politics that go hand-in-hand with standards development.
As industry, business, and commerce have boomed, standards have become more critical and the political dimensions of the arguments have emerged, sometimes creating
great debate and distress, such as the battles between the
proponents of Alternating and Direct Current or in recent
years (with somewhat less consequence), the struggle
between Beta and VHS. Within the publishing and information arena the struggle between the ISSN and the
CODEN as the identifier of choice for serials tested our
leadership and institutions.
Why Standards Matter
Standards are at the core of any business focused on trading information.
Standards as deceptively simple as the ISBN
(International Standard Book Number) are the basis for
organizing, sharing, selling, (and profiting) from content.
Standards build partnerships because standards—at their
core—are a common language. And, we all know that it is
easier to get things done when we do things the same way.
In this way standards address strategic needs that are vital
to any institution's or business's long-term survival.
For NISO's library constituents, standards are a natural.
At the heart of a library's mission are resource sharing and
access. Couple this mission with the need to stretch limited fiscal resources to support expanding collections and
services and standards become a tool to both maximize
resources and provide a way to translate a library's core
values—resource sharing and access—into action.
Standards You
Need to Know About
On NISO's agenda are a number of standards-in-development that will shape how information is shared and used.
• The OpenURL standard will help information seekers
avoid the frustration of "dead-ends" in web searching. This
smart URL will link users to the copy of the article they are
entitled to by virtue of their institutional, corporate, or
other affiliation. Work on this standard commenced in
June 2001; a draft for trial use will be released in 2002.
• A NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) will
enable library circulation systems to interoperate. This
Protocol, now being tested by a number of software vendors, will at long last put muscle into access. It will fill a
long-standing gap in the library's supply-chain by enabling
the circulation of print and electronic materials, facilitating
direct patron borrowing, and remote patron authentication.
The NISO committee drafting this new Protocol is a crossindustry working group bringing together representatives
of the leading software providers to the bibliographic market and the librarians/consumers.
• Two important developments will expand the functionality
of Z39.50, NISO's cornerstone standard for information
retrieval. The Z39.50 Protocol begun in the late-1970s as a
protocol to enable OCLC, the Library of Congress, the
Washington Library Network, and the Research Libraries
Group to search across their systems. As the marketplace
for bibliographic systems grew the standard evolved into a
protocol to enable cross-system searching. Today Z39.50
provides an important nonproprietary path to search across
bibliographic databases and catalogs. It will be improved
with the introduction of a national Profile in 2002. Coupled
with this advance is work to design a streamlined and webcompatible version of Z39.50 that holds the promise of
opening this standard to the bigger world.
• At the international level NISO is supporting the development of a family of identifiers for digital content: the ISAN,
the V-ISAN, the ISTC, and the ISWC. These standards will
be the tools for integrating content in creative and new
ways, leading to new business opportunities.
The evolution of new information technologies, brings
new opportunities to serve our communities in more powerful, quicker, creative, and equitable ways. Standards can
help to make this possible.
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S P O T L I G H T
Society of
American Archivists
By Lisa Weber, Voting Representative to NISO from the SAA
History is not what happened in the past. It is, as the word
itself suggests, a story, written by subsequent generations.
The veracity and accuracy of the account is dependent
upon an essential record—documents, maps, videos, photos, databases, e-mail, and other recorded information from
which the story can be pieced together and reconstructed,
item by item, clue by clue. The volume of material from
which to choose significant records, particularly those from
modern times, can be enormous. Archivists have accepted
responsibility to sift through the record of what we have
done to identify the most important materials in order to
preserve and make them available for posterity.
Founded in 1936, the Society of American Archivists
(SAA) is North America's oldest and largest national
archival professional association. SAA's mission is to
serve the educational and informational needs of more
than 3,400 individual and institutional members and to
provide leadership to ensure the identification, preservation, and use of records of historical value. The complexity of this mission, which was daunting in the 20th century, has grown more challenging still in the 21st century
because our society is now documenting so much recorded evidence in electronic form.
As all NISO members understand, using standards eases
many burdens. SAA is a strong supporter and occasional
developer of archival standards. Preservation standards
play an important role in archival activities including the
ANSI/NISO standards for permanent paper and environmental conditions for exhibiting materials. SAA’s interest
in standards extends to the MARC 21 (formerly known as
U.S. MARC for Archival and Manuscripts Control [AMC])
and the more recent Encoded Archival Description (EAD);
both standards enable the archival community to integrate many archival descriptions from different institutions into a virtual international electronic catalog.
The SAA Standards Committee is responsible for overseeing development, implementation, and review of standards pertinent to the archival profession and providing
effective interaction with other standards-developing
organizations whose work affects archival practice. The
Standards Committee is comprised of individuals interested in areas in which standards are vital including
archival description, preservation, and electronic records
as well as SAA’s representatives to other standards organizations. In fact many SAA members volunteer countless
hours developing, reviewing, and teaching standards.
SAA’s involvement in NISO, becoming a member in 1992,
expresses the society’s deep commitment to information
standards and to promoting their use. In addition to membership in NISO, SAA is also represented in a variety of
other standards organizations including the Association
for Information and Image Management (AIIM), the
American Library Association's Committee on MachineReadable Recording of
Bibliographic Information
(MARBI), and the American Library Association's
Committee on Cataloguing Description and Access
(CC:DA).
While standards work is an important component of the
society, SAA strives to serve its members through a variety of activities. These include helping to improve the
environment and conditions under which archivists work
through employment opportunities and career development, salary and benefit surveys; networking strategies
and a membership directory; providing ongoing educational support through publications and training manuals; continuing education workshops and mentor programs; and acting as an advocate—in both governmental
and public opinion forums—on behalf of archivists in
such key issues as intellectual property, copyright and fair
use, the declassification or destruction of federal records,
abuses of privacy and confidentiality, the Freedom of
Information Act, and others which affect archivists ability
to function in a fair, professional, and successful manner.
SAA holds an annual meeting which attracts 1,200
archivists from around the world.
The core of SAA's service component is divided into three
parts: sections, standing committees, and roundtables.
The sections reflect either institutional affiliation or particular areas of interest and expertise for SAA members, and
they include Acquisitions and Appraisal, Archivists of
Religious Collections, Business Archives, College and
University Archives, Description, Electronic Records,
Government Records, Manuscript Repositories, Museum
Archives, Oral History, Preservation, Reference, Access
and Outreach, and Visual Materials. Each section publishes its own newsletter and offers meetings, seminars, and
an exchange of relevant information and ideas.
Standing committees offer assistance and support in areas
of organizational activity and special interest, such as
Standards, Awards, Education and Professional
Development, Ethics and Professional Conduct, Annual
Meeting Program Membership, Nominations and
Publications.
Roundtables are groups which address diverse areas of
concern and serve members in a more informal capacity,
for example, Architectural Records, Archival Educators,
Archival History, Archives Management, Archivists and
Archives of Color, Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
Labor Archives, International Archival Affairs, Lesbian
and Gay Archives, Local Government Records, Visual
Materials Cataloging and Access, Performing Arts,
Privacy and Confidentiality, Recorded Sound, Records
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Management, Research Libraries Information Network
(RLIN) Users, Science, Technology and Health Care,
Security, Women's Collections, and Women Archivists.
SAA supports two outstanding periodicals.
The
American Archivist is the refereed semi-annual journal of
the Society of American Archivists. Published since 1937,
it seeks to reflect thinking about theoretical and practical
developments in the archival profession, particularly in
North America; about the relationships between archivists
and the creators and users of archives; and about cultural,
social, legal, and technological developments that affect
the nature of recorded information and the need to create
and maintain it.
The award-winning Archival Outlook bimonthly updates
members on important business of the Society and on the
work of its many committees, sections, boards, and task
forces; and reports regional, national, and international
news of relevance to the North American archival profession. Regular columns include "Bulletin Board" (a running
calendar of meetings, workshops, seminars, funding, call
for papers);"Currents" (members' position appointments,
professional achievements and honors); "Professional
Opportunities" (job announcements); "Illuminations"
(how-to information); as well as lengthier features.
Additional information about SAA, its activities and membership is available at the SAA website (www.archivists.org).
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Report on the TC 46
Plenary Meeting
The 29th plenary meeting of Technical Committee 46 was
held October 18-19, 2001 in Paris. This was an important
gathering because over the past eighteen months the
Committee has undergone a reorganization and a change
in leadership. This event marked the first time that the
group was convened in its new model.
Delegations representing fifteen of the TC's 31
Participating member countries attended the two-day
meeting: Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece,
Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Sweden, UK, and the USA.
The U.S. delegation included Sally McCallum, Patricia
Harris, and Albert Simmonds.
The newly elected TC chairperson, Jean-Marie Arnoult
(Inspection Generale des Bibliotheques), assisted by
Catherine Mattenet, the TC Secretariat, directed the meeting. The primary business was confirmation of the TC's
revised structure and discussion and approval of the TC
Business Plan.
Streamlined Structure Approved
The TC members approved a streamlined structure that
organizes the TC's program into four independent
Subcommittees and three working groups that report
directly to the TC 46 Secretariat. Subcommittee titles and
scope statements were also revised. The newly reconstituted SC 9 will focus on information identifiers. SC 4 on
Technical Interoperability will focus on protocols and
related metadata. A coordinating group made up of the
SC and working group chairpersons and secretaries will
help the Secretariat manage the TC and bring the TC's
leadership together to discuss areas of common interest.
The new TC 46 is composed of:
SC 4: Technical Interoperability (formerly titled Computer
Applications in Information and Documentation)
Scope: Standardization of protocols, schemas, etc. and
related models and metadata for processes used by information organizations and content providers, including
libraries, archives, museums, publishers, and other content producers. Secretariat: USA/NISO
SC 8: Quality—Statistics and Performance Evaluation
(formerly titled Statistics and Performance Evaluation)
Scope: Standardization of practices relating to the collection of statistics and performance indicators for information organizations and content providers, e.g. libraries,
archives, museums, and publishers. Secretariat: Sweden
SC 9: Identification and Description (formerly titled
Presentation, Identification, and Description of Documents)
Scope: Standardization of information identifiers, description and associated metadata and models for use in information organizations (including libraries, museums, and
archives) and the content industries (including publishing
and other content producers and providers). Secretariat:
Canada
This new scope statement focuses the Subcommittee's
work on identifiers, currently a very active and important
program of work. Fifteen standards from the "old SC 9"
repertoire will be retired and placed under the management of the TC secretariat.
SC11: Archives/Records Management
Scope: Standardization of principles for the creation and
management of documents, records and archives as evidence of transactions and covering all media including
digital multimedia and paper. Secretariat: Australia
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The former Subcommittees on Conversion of Written
Languages (transliteration) and Terminology were reorganized as working groups reporting to the TC secretariat.
The reconstituted TC 46 working groups now include:
Maintenance Agency has adopted a more restrictive policy
on new code assignments. The MA has also established a
liaison with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers to maintain stability in both code lists.
• WG2: Coding of Country Names and Related Entities
Convenor: France (AFNOR)
Code Changes
• WG 3: Conversion of Written Languages
Convenor: Greece (ELOT)
In 1999 the country name "Occupied Palestinian Territory"
was added to SO 3166-1 Country Codes.
• WG4: Terminology of Information and Documentation
Convenor: Iran (ISIRI)
There was some interest in establishing a fourth working
group on preservation to continue the work of the former
Subcommittee 10 on Physical Keeping of Documents; a
call for nominations for a convenor and membership will
be distributed by the TC secretariat.
TC 46 Business Plan
Each ISO Technical Committee is required to submit a
business plan to the ISO Technical Management Board
outlining the TC's scope of work and detailing the impact
and significance of the TC's work. A TC 46 Plan has been
drafted. Based on the comments from the Plenary meeting
discussions the Plan will be revised and balloted by the
TC 46 members in early 2002. The final Plan will be submitted to ISO in June 2002.
Standards Completed
Catherine Mattenet reported that three TC 46 standards
were published in 2001:
• ISO 15489-1 and ISO 15489-2 Records management
• ISO 3901 International Standard Recording Code
(2nd edition)
• ISO 15919 Transliteration of Devanagari.
Future Meetings
The group agreed that TC 46 will meet in plenary session
every eighteen months. The next TC 46 meeting will be
held in May 2003 in Rome. The U.S./NISO offered to host
the October 2004 Plenary meeting.
Country Code
Update: ISO 3166
Cord Wischhoefer, secretariat for the Maintenance Agency
for ISO 3166 on Country Codes, reports that there continues to be high interest in country codes, primarily due to
the growth of the Internet. The ISO 3166-1 two-character
alphabetic codes are used as country code Top-Level
Domains in the Internet Domain Name System. The immediate impact has been a steadily increasing number of user
inquiries on ISO 3166 and a growing number of requests
for new country names and codes. As a result, the
In 2000 changes and corrections to ISO 3166-2 Country
Subdivision Code were approved for the following countries: Belarus, Canada, Dominican Republic, Eritrea,
Spain, Italy, Republic of Korea, Nigeria, Poland, Romania,
Russian Federation, Turkey, Viet Nam, Yugoslavia.
Change of Secretariat
Effective December 2001 the Secretariat for 3166
Maintenance Agency will be transferred from DIN to the
ISO Central Secretariat in Geneva. Cord Wischhoefer will
join the ISO staff and continue to manage the standard.
ISO’s International
Standard Textual
Work Code Out
for Ballot
ISO Committee Draft 21047, the International Standard
Textual Work Code (ISTC) is now circulating for comments
and voting.
The ISTC is a voluntary numbering system for the identification of textual works that will be a unique, internationally recognized and permanent identifier for each
textual work to which it is assigned. A textual work is
defined as any work composed predominantly of a combination of words such as an article, an essay, a novel, a poem,
a screenplay, or a short story. The ISTC does not identify
manifestations of a textual work. It will uniquely distinguish one textual work from another across national
boundaries and language barriers, regardless of the various
editions and/or formats in which a textual work is published. An ISTC will be 16 hexadecimal digits in length
using numerals 0-9 and letters A-F. It will consist of four
elements in the following order: the registration agency element; the year element; the work element and a check digit.
The intent is to facilitate the exchange of information about
textual works among authors, agents, publishers, retailers,
librarians, rights administrators, and other contributors
and interested parties, on an international level. The ISTC
project is being developed within TC 46/SC 9 Working
Group 3 under the project leadership of Albert Simmonds
of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center, Inc).
Information about the draft is available at: http://www.nlcbnc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/21047.htm. NISO members are invited
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to review the standard and submit comments which will be
considered in shaping the U.S. response to this proposed
international standard. Send your comments (if any) to
[email protected] by January 15, 2002.
ISO Proposes
ISBN Revision
The ISO/TC 46/SC 9 Secretariat has proposed the establishment of a Working Group (WG 4) to undertake revision of the ISBN standard. This standard was last revised
in 1992. The purpose of this revision is to increase the
numbering capacity of the ISBN system and to deal with
related issues for assignment and use of ISBN in the electronic information environment. The ISBN is a unique,
international identification system for books and other
monographic publications in both physical and electronic
S T A N D A R D S
(digital) formats. It is the basic identification tool of the
book industry, used world-wide by publishers, distributors, retailers, libraries and other information suppliers.
ISO 2108 specifies the scope, syntax, use and administration of the International Standard Book Number. Since its
inception in 1970, the International Standard Book
Number (ISBN) has been internationally recognized as the
identification system for the publishing industry and book
trade. An ISBN accompanies a book or other monographic
publication from its production and onwards throughout
the supply and distribution chain. The ISBN system serves
as a key element of ordering and inventory systems for
publishers, booksellers, libraries and other organizations.
It is the basis for collecting data on new and forthcoming
titles for directories used throughout the book trade. The
ISBN also facilitates rights management and the monitoring of sales data for the publishing industry.
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Digital Talking Book
Standard Reviewed
December 17, 2001 was the closing date for voting and
commenting on the proposed national standard for the
Digital Talking Book (Z39.86-200x).
In presenting this standard for balloting, Michael Moodie,
Chair of the committee, said, "This standard represents the
results of over four years of effort by an international team
representing a broad range of stakeholders dedicated to
providing alternative format materials to print-disabled
readers. It is built on specifications and needs formulated
by blind and visually impaired users, who were heavily
involved in every aspect of the development effort."
In August, the International Coalition of Access Engineers
and Specialists (ICAES) named the National Information
Standards Organization as one of the winners of their 2001
Collaboration and Coordination Award for its work in
developing file specifications for digital talking books and
ebooks. The standard was also featured prominently in
several presentations at the NISO/NIST Ebook
Conference held in November in Washington, D.C.
The Digital Talking Book standard enables a powerful and
flexible reading system that will make electronic resources
accessible to millions of print-disabled readers worldwide.
Facilitating the efficient presentation of information through
a variety of alternative media, this new standard will make
it easier for all readers to navigate the digital world.
Library Statistics
Standard Committee
Begins Work
Standards Committee AY, revising the Library Statistics
standard (Z39.7), held its first meeting November 15-16,
2001 at the National Commission on Libraries and
Information Science in Washington, DC. Committee chair,
Denise M. Davis (NCLIS), reported that the committee
used their time becoming more familiar with the standards
revision process, reviewed the work done on library statistics and performance measures since the last revision, and
developed a framework for the revision process. In addition, the group identified key areas of effort beyond the
revision. The Library Statistics Standard was first released
in 1968, and revised in 1983 and 1995. With each revision
the standard has grown and changed. When the 1995 edition of the Library Statistics Standard was released, the
committee that developed it acknowledged that the standard did not address two important emerging areas: measurement of electronic resources and performance measures. It was recommended that these issues be examined
at the next five-year review point.
The Committee will continue its work through June 2002,
when it plans to have the first draft of the revision released
for comment. Committee meetings are tentatively scheduled for the weeks of March 4-8 and June 3-7, 2002 in
Washington, DC. Additional meetings may be planned
around conferences, although the majority of the committee's work is expected to occur electronically.
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All information and materials associated with the work of
the Library Standards Committee AY is available at
http://www.nclis.gov/statsurv/niso/z39.7/z39.7.html.
Comments are encouraged and may be sent to committee
members directly or through the [email protected] email link
from the Z39.7 website. The Committee is chaired by
Denise Davis, Director, Statistics & Surveys US National
Commission on Libraries and Information Science
(NCLIS). Committee members are: Brian Auger (Howard
County Public Library), John Carlo Bertot (Florida State
University, SIS), Dianne Carty (Massachusetts Board of
Library Commissioners), Oliver Pesch (EBSCO
Publishing), Sue Phillips (University of Texas at Austin),
Sherrie Schmidt (Arizona State University Libraries),
Maurice Travillian (Maryland State Dept. of Education),
Ann Carlson Weeks (University of Maryland CLIS), and
Peter R. Young (Library of Congress). Patricia Stevens
(OCLC) is the Standards Development Committee liaison
to the committee.
Dublin Core Approved
NISO and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
announced in October that ANSI, the American National
Standards Institute approved the Dublin Core Metadata
Element Set (ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2001). DCMI began in
1995 with an invitational workshop in Dublin, Ohio that
brought together librarians, digital library researchers,
content providers, and text-markup experts to improve
discovery standards for information resources. The original Dublin Core emerged as a small set of descriptors that
quickly drew global interest from a wide variety of information providers in the arts, sciences, education, business,
and government sectors.
Commenting on the approval, Stuart Weibel, Executive
Director of DCMI, said: "The approval of Z39.85 formalizes a long period of consensus building representing the
efforts of hundreds of people, and all participants can take
pride in what this community has built." The NISO committee was chaired by John Kunze (University of
California/National Library of Medicine) and included
Rebecca Guenther (Library of Congress), Marjorie Hlava
(Access Innovations, Inc.), Clifford Morgan (John Wiley &
Sons Ltd.) and John Perkins (CIMI Consortium).
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (http://dublincore.org) is an organization dedicated to promoting the
widespread adoption of interoperable metadata standards
and developing specialized metadata vocabularies for
describing resources that enable more intelligent information discovery systems. DCMI will act as the maintenance
agency for the Dublin Core Metadata Element set standard.
As with all NISO standards, this standard is available for
free downloading or hardcopy purchase at:
http://www.niso.org
Open URL
Committee Update
The Open URL Committee has been meeting regularly by
teleconference. Current major issues being discussed
include a "pre-scoping proposal" that defines a general
framework for all future versions of OpenURL. This proposal will identify the list of core entities (such as referents,
resolvers, requesters, etc.) and descriptors (i.e. ways in
which entities can be identified or described). A "referenttype" proposal for journals, books and conference proceedings is also being discussed. The committee is working
towards the specification for Version 1.0 of the Standard.
There is agreement on an initial set of scoping agreements.
The main points are: a definition of a transportable metadata format and container syntax, one resolver and one
referent, an extensibility mechanism and a versioning
mechanism, and a defined URL format for metadata.
Eric Van de Velde, the chair of the Open URL committee has
set up a website for the official record (http://library.
caltech.edu/openurl/Record.htm) and for working documents (http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/Working_Documents.htm). The committee will next meet January 24-25,
2002 at CNRI in Washington.
Networked
Reference Services
Standard Launched
The Standards Development committee has established a
new NISO standards committee tasked to develop standards to enable interoperable, networked reference services.
Digital reference services are a new and rapidly growing
extension of the traditional "behind the desk" reference service offered by virtually all libraries. Digital reference,
whether delivered via real-time chat or asynchronous email, lets library customers submit questions and receive
answers via electronic means.
The Committee will develop:
• A question processing transaction protocol for interchange
of messages between digital reference domains. This will
support processing and routing of questions and responses
and packaging of other information to be exchanged.
• A metadata element set to identify and describe key
components of both question and answer data and
institutional and personal data.
The committee is expected to conduct experimentation,
testing and/or research in both areas prior to release of the
proposed draft standard.
The Networked Reference Services Committee (Committee
AZ) will be chaired by Sally H. McCallum (Library of
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McCallum intends to form the
committee into two teams to deal with question processing
transaction protocol and networked reference metadata
N I S O
N E W S
A N D
element sets. The committee will be appointed in early
2002. Details on the committee's work will be featured on
the NISO website.
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NISO’s New Website:
a guided tour
this community. The membership section of the new NISO
web site explains the benefits and opportunities inherent
in NISO membership and allows voting members to access
private sections where NISO business is conducted.
In the last issue of ISQ, we told you that the new NISO
web site had just been unveiled. Now, we’d like to give
you a guided tour. The aim of this recently redesigned site
is to help all members of the standards community find,
learn about, and use standards information. The NISO
web is the place to visit for all manner of things "standard"
in the information industry.
The new web site is actively used. Let us know what
you think and send your suggestions for more features and
services.
Basic navigation from all pages on the site includes links
to sections about NISO as an organization, about all of
NISO’s standards, about the standards process, about
NISO membership, about the standards universe and
NISO’s place in this universe, and about updates important to the NISO community. Each of these sections provides much detailed focused information on NISO’s activities and the organization in general. Quick links on all
web pages will also connect users to the NISO calendar, a
site search capability, contact information and
a mechanism for subscribing to NISO-L, an email distribution list that will help you keep up to date on NISO activities. The home page gives users a quick update on what’s
new at NISO as well as linking to more complete current
news and the NISO calendar. We also highlight some of
our most popular standards and give users a direct link to
all NISO standards and to the NISO Press.
The Standards section of the new web site lists all
approved and published standards with a brief abstract
and links to the freely available PDF version and to order
information for the printed version of the standard. NISO
is the only standards group that offers freely downloadable standards on the web. A reference box on this page
links users to standards by category: standards in development, standards out for balloting, draft standards in
trial use, and standards by subject area. In addition, users
can find information on Standards Committees, their
membership, their progress and their working drafts. The
Standards Development Pipeline section shows users
where each standard is in the development cycle.
One entire section of the new web site is devoted to understanding how standards are created. Users can also access
the operating procedures development and will find a
form for submitting a suggestion for a new standard.
Because NISO understands the global nature of the
information industry, users will also find material on the
international standards community and NISO’s place in
NISO, BIC,
and IDF Seminar
In December, NISO joined with Book Industry
Communication (BIC) and the International DOI
Foundation to sponsor a seminar on the developing standards infrastructure for electronic publishing. The event
was timed to coincide with the Online Information show
held annually in London. Three important standards initiatives, ONIX, OpenURL and DOI, were highlighted during the program.
The ONIX standards for product information is now being
expanded to cover electronic content and serials, and aims
to provide a continuum of information from publishers'
content management systems to end user without the need
for rekeying and multiple cataloguing. The Open URL, currently being developed as a standard by NISO, enables
users of electronic content to be seamlessly guided to the
appropriate copy of the product they seek. The Digital
Object Identifier is now enabling multiple resolution of
DOIs providing the key to a host of new services and applications in several sectors of publishing, including ebooks,
educational (learning objects), academic and professional
how. In addition to discussing each of these developments,
the session described the connections between these key
developments: how DOIs can be used in conjunction with
OpenURL, and how the metadata associated with DOIs is
related to ONIX standards. The speakers also discussed
new standards in the pipeline that build on existing work to
facilitate automated trading in digital rights, quicker costeffective access to electronic materials and customization of
content to the needs of users.
Speakers included Herbert van de Sompel, Director
of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library,
Jenny Walker, Sales and Marketing Director of Ex Libris
Inc, Norman Paskin, Director of the International DOI
Foundation and consultants David Martin and
Tim Devenport. A link from the NISO website will take
you to the meeting presentations.
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NISO Events
at ALA Midwinter
We hope you’ll visit the NISO booth (# 3213) at ALA
Midwinter and attend several of the standards meetings.
Here’s a sample of what’s going on:
rights of publishers, responsibilities of libraries and needs
of scholars be balanced? What new standards will be
needed to support digital archival repositories? This program will highlight three recent initiatives in archiving
electronic publications:
NISO and the LAMA Building and Equipment
Section: Putting our ideas to work
Dale Flecker, Associate Director for Planning and Systems,
Harvard University Library will present an overview of
work done on Harvard University's planning grant sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to study
archiving electronic journals.
NISO and the Building and Equipment Section of LAMA,
invite you to attend an ideas forum on Saturday, January
19th from 3-4:30pm, Monteleone Hotel, Cabildo Room. The
focus of this meeting is to identify the best ideas for possible development as national standards, guidelines, or best
practices in the area of library building and equipment.
George Barnum, Electronic Collection Manager from the
United States Government Printing Office’s Library
Programs Service (SL) will describe OCLC's Web
Document Digital Archive, a joint project with the
Government Printing Office to archive electronic government publications.
Seating will be limited and reservations are recommended. Contact Shawn Tonner ([email protected]),
Chair of the LAMA Building & Equipment Section and
member of the NISO Standards Development Committee
to make your reservation.
Karen Hunter, Senior Vice President, Strategy for Elsevier
Science will discuss the Yale Library/Elsevier Science
Digital Preservation Collaboration.
ACRL Publisher/Vendor Relations Discussion
Group: Open URL and SFX - Implications for
Science Libraries
Science Libraries now face the double problem of trying to
provide patrons with electronic resources while at the
same time attempting to have a clear path to these databases. Too often users experience the frustration of having
a dead link to a resource that they do not have the right to
access. Fortunately there is the new Open URL standard
and an application of that standard, SFX, that can help to
ease this process.
Eric Van de Velde, the chair of the NISO Open URL
Committee, will speak about the work of this committee,
its formation, expected outcomes, and implications for
libraries. Jenny Walker, Director of Sales and Marketing of
the Information Services Division of Ex Libris, will speak
about their application of the Open URL standard as a
product called SFX, which delivers linking services and
allows libraries to customize their links that integrate their
information resources. A discussion and opportunity to
ask questions will immediately follow their presentations.
This meeting, chaired by Tom Auger and Catherine
Soehner will take place on Sunday, January 20 from 9:3011:00am.
NISO/BISG Program:
Archiving Electronic Publications
As more and more publications are issued in electronic
formats only, the question of how to ensure long-term
access to them becomes increasingly pressing. Can costeffective models for archiving be developed? How can
This meeting will take place on Sunday, January 20 from
4:30-6:00pm, in the Hotel Monteleone, Iberville Room.
NISO/NFAIS
Linking Workshop
A workshop titled "Your Content and Mine: Enhancing
Customer Access" co-sponsored by NFAIS and NISO will
be held on Sunday, February 24, 2002, 1-5:00pm, in
conjunction with the annual NFAIS Conference in
Philadelphia. There is a growing demand for fully integrated information services, which include the ability to
link between citations and electronic content regardless of
publisher, format, or service. This program will update
your understanding of the state-of-the-art of reference
linking and inform you about initiatives to offer extended
linking services.
The half-day program will feature Ed Pentz of Crossref
who will give an overview of linking issues; Howard
Ratner of Nature who will discuss linking from a publisher’s perspective; Dale Flecker of Harvard who will address
the issue of finding the appropriate copy; and Miriam
Blake of Los Alamos National Labs who will present a
demonstration of SFX as it is being used at her institution
to extend user services.
For more information or to register for the program,
visit the NISO website or contact NFAIS:
1518 Walnut Street, Suite 307
Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403
Voice: 215-893-1561
Fax: 215-893-1564
[email protected]
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This is a capsule report on each active NISO Standards Committee or standard-in-development.
This list does not include current, approved standards not being revised.
To learn more about each activity go to: http://www.niso.org/standard.html
Status
Development
Development
Development
Development
Development
Development
Development
Development
Development
Committee
SC OO
SC AQ
SC AT
SC AU
SC AV
SC AW
SC AX
SC AY
SC AZ
M E E T I N G
Standard
Revision of Z39.29, Bibliographic References
Performance Specifications for the Digital Talking Book
Circulation Interchange Protocol
Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images
National Z39.50 Profile for Library Application
Revision of Z39.18, Scientific and Technical Reports
Open URL
Revision of Z39.7, Library Statistics
Networked Reference Services
C A L E N D A R
For additional information on any of the events listed contact [email protected]
JANUARY 2002
FEBRUARY 2002
January 18-23
American Library Association
Midwinter Meeting
New Orleans, LA
January 19
NISO/LAMA Building and Equipment
Section
a call for standards and guidelines for
library buildings and equipment
January 20
NISO/BASIC Program
New Orleans, LA
January 21
NISO Board of Directors
New Orleans, LA
January 21
NISO NCIP Status Update
New Orleans, LA
January 21
NISO AVIAC Meeting
New Orleans, LA
January 24-25
Open URL, SC AX, CNRI
Reston, VA
February 7-8
ISBN Revision WG
Ottawa, Canada
February 4-6
SC AT-NCIP Committee
Carlsbad, CA
February 11
AAP/PSP Workshop on Usage Statistics
Washington, DC
February 24
NISO Linking Workshop
Philadelphia, PA
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S T A N D A R D S
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Standards development is not static. NISO standards are reviewed regularly and revised to keep them responsive to implementors’ needs. The following summary details the state of the standards that are now on NISO’s agenda. This comprehensive report on NISO’s standards program appears in the January issue of ISQ to keep you informed of the scope and
status of NISO’s program on an annual basis. If you have any questions on the following reports contact the NISO office at
301-654-2512 or via email: [email protected] or visit the Standards section of the NISO website (www.niso.org).
NISO Standards Being Revised
The following standards are published and approved NISO standards that are now at some stage of revision. Information
noted includes: the designation of the standard and its title, the designation of the Standards Committee assigned to
complete the revision (for example, SC OO), the name of the committee chair and email address, the corresponding or related international standards (for example, ISO 4), and notes on the status of the revision process. DSFTU stands for Draft
Standard for Trial Use.
DESIGNATION
TITLE
STATUS
ANSI/NISO Z39.7-1995
ISO 2789 SC AY
Library Statistics
In development
Chair: Denise Davis, email: [email protected]
ANSI Z39.29-1977
ISO 690
SC OO
Bibliographic References
DSFTU to be released in 2002.
SC chair: M.E. Brennan, email: [email protected]
ANSI/NISO Z39.18-1995
ISO 5966
SC AW
Scientific and Technical Reports—
Organization,Elements, and Design
In development
Chair: Kurt Molholm, email: [email protected]
ANSI/NISO Z39.50-1995
ISO 23950
Information Retrieval (Z39.50):
Maintenance revision to be released in 2002.
Service Definition Protocol Specification
New NISO Standards in Development
Listed below are new standards now in development by NISO. Information noted includes: the designation of the standard
and its title, the designation of the Standards Committee assigned to develop the standard (for example, SC AL), and notes
on the status of the development process. Email addresses for committee chairs are noted. Refer to the NISO
website and Information Standards Quarterly for reports on committee activities.
DESIGNATION
TITLE
STATUS
SC AJ
Z39.80-199x
Format for Downloading
Records from Bibliographic and
Abstracting Indexing Databases
DSFTU to be released in 2002.
SC AP
Book Item and Component Identifier
DSFTU released in 2000.
SC AQ
Digital Talking Book
To be approved in 2002. In review. Chair: Michael Moodie, email: [email protected]
SC AT
Z39.83-200x
Circulation Interchange Protocol
DSFTU released in 2000.
Chair: Patricia Stevens, email: [email protected]
SC AU
Technical Metadata for
Digital Still Images
DSFTU to be released in 2002
Co-Chair: Robin Dale, email: [email protected]; Oya Rieger, email: [email protected]
SC AV
National Z39.50 Profile for
Library Applications
To be balloted in 2002. Chair: William E. Moen, email: [email protected]
SC AX
OpenURL
In development. Chair: Eric Van de Velde, email: [email protected]
SCAZ
Networked Reference Services
Established in January 2002.
In development. Chair: Sally H. McCallum, email: [email protected]
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Published and Approved NISO Standards
The following NISO standards are approved and published. Information noted includes: the designation of the standard
and its title, the corresponding or related international standards (for example, ISO 2709), and the year when the standard
is scheduled for its regular five year review. The notation R2000 indicates that the standard was reaffirmed in 2000.
DESIGNATION
ANSI/NISO Z39.2-1994 (R2001)
ISO 2709
TITLE
Information Interchange Format
STATUS
Five year review: 2006.
ANSI/NISO Z39.9-1992 (R2001)
ISO 3297
International Standard Serial Numbering (ISSN)
Five year review: 2006.
ANSI/NISO Z39.14-1997
Guidelines for Abstracts
Five year review: 2002.
ANSI/NISO Z39.19-1993 (R1998)
ISO 2788
Guidelines for the Construction, Format,
and Management of Monolingual Thesauri
Five year review: 2003.
ANSI/NISO Z39.20-1999
ISO 9230
Criteria for Price Indexes
for Printed Library Materials
Five year review: 2004.
ANSI/NISO Z39.23-1997
Standard Technical Report Number and Creation
Five year review: 2002.
ANSI/NISO Z39.26-1997
Micropublishing Product Information
Five year review: 2002.
ANSI/NISO Z39.32-1996
ISO 5123
Information on Microfiche Headers
Five year review: 2002.
ANSI/NISO Z39.41-1997
Printed Information on Spines
Five year review: 2002.
ANSI/NISO Z39.43-1993 (R2001)
Standard Address Number (SAN)
Five year review: 2006.
ANSI/NISO Z39.47-1993 (R1998)
Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character
Set for Bibliographic Use (ANSEL)
Five year review: 2003.
ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997)
ISO 9706
Permanence of Paper for Publications
and Documents in Libraries and Archives
Five year review: 2002.
ANSI/NISO Z39.53-2001
ISO 639-2
Codes for the Representation of Languages for
Information Interchange
Five year review: 2006
ANSI/NISO Z39.56-1996
Serial Item Contribution Identifier
Five year review: 2002.
ANSI/NISO Z39.62-2000
Eye Legible Information on Microfilm
Leaders and Trailers
Five year review: 2005.
ANSI/NISO Z39.64-1989 (R1995)
East Asian Character Code (EACC)
Five year review: 2002.
ANSI/NISO Z39.66-1992 (R1998)
Durable Hard-Cover Binding for Books
Five year review: 2003.
ANSI/NISO Z39.71-1999
ISO 10324
Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items
Five year review: 2004.
ANSI/NISO Z39.73-1994 (R2001)
Library Shelving
Five year review: 2006.
ANSI/NISO Z39.74-1996
Guides to Accompany Microform Sets
Five year review: 2002.
ANSI/NISO Z39.76-1996
Data Elements for Binding Library Materials
Five year review: 2002.
ANSI/NISO Z39.77-2001
Guidelines for Information About Preservation Products Five year review: 2006.
ANSI/NISO/LBI Z39.78-2000
Library Binding
Five year review: 2005.
ANSI/NISO Z39.79-2001
Environmental Conditions for Exhibiting
Library and Archival Materials
Five year review: 2006.
ANSI/NISO Z39.82-2001
Title Pages of Conference Publications
Five year review: 2006.
ANSI/NISO Z39.84-2000
Syntax for the Digital Object Identifier
Five year review: 2005.
ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2001
The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
Five year review: 2006
ANSI/NISO/ISO 12083: 1994
Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup
U.S. adoption of ISO 12083. Replaces ANSI/NISO Z39.59-1988.
Five year review: 2002.
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NISO Technical Reports are not consensus documents. The reports can be commissioned by NISO or based on a proposed
standard that did not result in consensus.
DESIGNATION
TITLE
NISO TR01-1995
Environmental Guidelines for the Storage of Paper Records
NISO TR02-1997
Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices
NISO TR03-1999
Guidelines for Alphabetical Arrangement of Letters and Sorting of Numerals and Other Symbols
Withdrawn NISO Standards
In accordance with ANSI Procedures all American National Standards that are not revised or reaffirmed within ten years following ANSI BSR approval are automatically administratively withdrawn. These standards are no longer official ANSI American
National Standards and are withdrawn as active standards. These standards are available from the NISO office.
DESIGNATION
TITLE
DESIGNATION
TITLE
ANSI Z39.1-1977
Periodicals: Format and Arrangement
ANSI Z39.35-1979
ANSI Z39.4-1984
ISO 999
Basic Criteria for Indexes
Replaced by NISO Technical Report TR02-1997
System for the Romanization of Lao,
Khmer, and Pali
ANSI Z39.37-1979
System for the Romanization of Armenian
ANSI Z39.5-1983
ISO 4
Abbreviations of Titles of Publications
ANSI Z39.39-1979 (R1988)
Compiling Newspaper and Periodical
Publishing Statistics
ANSI Z39.6-1983
Trade Catalogs
ANSI Z39.40-1979 (R1987)
Compiling U.S. Microform Publishing Statistics
ANSI Z39.8-1977 (R1982)
Compiling Book Publishing Statistics
ANSI Z39.42-1980
ANSI Z39.10-1971 (R1977)
Directories of Libraries and
Information Centers
Serial Holdings Statements at the
Summary Level. Replaced by Z39.71-1999
ANSI Z39.44-1986
ANSI Z39.11-1972 (R1989)
System for the Romanization of Japanese
Serial Holdings Statements
Replaced by Z39.71-1999
ANSI Z39.12-1972 (R1984)
ISO/R233
System for the Romanization of Arabic
ANSI Z39.45-1983
Claims for Missing Issues of Serials
ANSI Z39.13-1979 (R1984)
Describing Books in Advertisements, Catalogs,
Promotional Materials, and Book Jackets
ANSI Z39.46-1983
ISO 3388
Patent Documents—Identification of
Bibliographic Data
ANSI Z39.49-1985
Computerized Book Ordering
ANSI Z39.52-1987
Standard Order Form for Multiple Titles of
Library Materials
ANSI Z39.57-1989 (R1995)
Holdings Statement for Non-Serial Items
Replaced by Z39.71-1999
ANSI Z39.58-1992
Common Command Language
ANSI Z39.59-1988
Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup
Replaced by ANSI/NISO/ISO 12083: 1994
ANSI/NISO Z39.61-1987
Recording, Use, and Display of Patent
Application Data in Printed and Computer
Readable Publications and Services
ANSI Z39.15-1980 ISO 1086 Title Leaves of a Book
ANSI Z39.16-1979 (R1985)
Preparation of Scientific Papers for
Written or Oral Presentation
ANSI Z39.24-1976
Romanization of Slavic Cyrillic Characters
ANSI Z39.25-1975
Romanization of Hebrew
ANSI Z39.30-1983
Order Form for Single Titles of Library
Materials in 3-Inch by 5-Inch Format
ANSI Z39.31-1983
ISO 2384
Format for Scientific and
Technical Translations
ANSI Z39.33-1977 (R1988)
Development of Identification Codes for
Use by the Bibliographic Community
ANSI/NISO Z39.63-1989
ISO 8459-1
Interlibrary Loan Data Elements
ANSI Z39.34-1977 (R1983)
Synoptics
ANSI/NISO Z39.67-1993
Computer Software Description
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3M
Jerry Karel, Susan Boettcher (Alt)
Follett Corporation
D. Jeffrey Blumenthal, Don Rose (Alt)
National Library of Medicine
Betsy L. Humphreys
American Association of Law Libraries
Robert Oakley, Mary Alice Baish (Alt)
Fretwell-Downing Informatics
Robin Murray
Nylink
Mary-Alice Lynch, Jane Neale (Alt)
American Chemical Society
Robert S. Tannehill, Jr.
Gale Group
Katherine Gruber, Justine Carson (Alt)
OASIS
TBA
American Library Association
Paul J. Weiss
Gaylord Information Systems
William Schickling, Linda Zaleski (Alt)
OCLC, Inc.
Donald J. Muccino
American Society for Information Science
and Technology (ASIS&T)
Mark H. Needleman
GCA Research Institute
Jane Harnad
Openly Informatics
Eric Hellman
H. W. Wilson Company
Ann Case
ProQuest Information and Learning
Todd Fegan, James Brei (Alt)
IBM
David M. Choy, Chuck Brink (Alt)
Recording Industry Association of America
Linda R. Bocchi, Michael Williams (Alt)
American Society of Indexers
Judith Gibbs, Jacqueline Radebaugh (Alt)
American Theological Library Association
Myron B. Chace
Armed Forces Medical Library
Diane Zehnpfennig, Emily Court (Alt)
Information Use Management &
Policy Institute (FSU)
Charles McClure, John Carlo Bertot (Alt)
ARMA International
Diane Carlisle
Infotrieve
Jan Peterson
Art Libraries Society of North America
(ARLIS/NA)
David L. Austin
Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
Gerald M. Kline, Sandra Westall (Alt)
Association for Information and Image
Management (AIIM)
Betsy A. Fanning
Association of Jewish Libraries
Caroline R. Miller, Elizabeth Vernon (Alt)
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Duane E. Webster, Julia Blixrud (Alt)
Institute for Scientific Information
TBA
The International DOI Foundation
Norman Paskin
Library Binding Institute
Donald Dunham
The Library Corporation
Mark Wilson, Nancy Capps (Alt)
BiblioMondo
Martin Sach
Library of Congress
Winston Tabb, Sally H. McCallum (Alt)
Book Industry Communication
Brian Green
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Richard E. Luce
Broadcast Music, Inc.
Edward Oshanani, Robert Barone (Alt)
Lucent Technologies
M. E. Brennan
Cambridge Information Group
Michael Cairns, Matthew Dunie (Alt)
Medical Library Association
Nadine P. Ellero, Carla J. Funk (Alt)
Checkpoint Systems
Emmett Erwin, Paul Simon (Alt)
MINITEX
Cecelia Boone, William DeJohn (Alt)
College Center for Library Automation
J. Richard Madaus, Ann Armbrister (Alt)
Modern Language Association
Daniel Bokser, Cameron Bardrick (Alt)
Congressional Information Service, Inc.
Robert Lester
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
William M. Baker, Axel aus der Muhlen (Alt)
devine, inc.
Robert Boissy
Music Library Association
Lenore Coral, Mark McKnight (Alt)
Elsevier Science Inc.
Anthony Ross, John Mancia (Alt)
National Agricultural Library
Gary K. McCone
Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.
Verne Coppi, Cindy Miller (Alt)
National Archives and Records Administration
Mary Ann Hadyka
epixtech, inc.
John Bodfish, Ricc Ferrante (Alt)
National Federation of Abstracting and
Information Services (NFAIS)
Marion Harrell
Ex Libris
James Steenbergen, Carl Grant (Alt)
Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG)
Lennie Stovel, Joan Aliprand (Alt)
SIRS Mandarin, Inc.
Leonardo Lazo, Harry Kaplanian (Alt)
SIRSI Corporation
Greg Hathorn, Slavko Manojlovich (Alt)
Society for Technical Communication
Annette Reilly, Kevin Burns (Alt)
Society of American Archivists
Lisa Weber
Special Libraries Association
Marcia Lei Zeng
Triangle Research Libraries Network
Jordan M. Scepanski, Mona C. Couts (Alt)
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Beverly P. Lynch
Chair
UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
Jose-Marie Griffiths
University of Pittsburgh
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Fax: 310-206-6293
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Term: chair term 7/01-6/03
Phone: 412-624-9331
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Term: expires 6/30/04
Jan Peterson
Infotrieve
3045 Moore Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Fax: 310-234-9582
E-mail: [email protected]
Term: vice chair term: 7/01-6/03
chair term: 7/03-6/05
Donald J. Muccino
OCLC, Inc.
Phone: 614-764-6034
Fax: 614-718-7078
E-mail: [email protected]
Term: expires 6/30/03
Priscilla Caplan
Florida Center for Library Automation
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Fax: 352-392-9185
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Term: expires 6/30/03
Patricia R Harris
NISO
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Richard E. Luce
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Term: expires 6/30/02
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Library of Congress
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Elsevier Science
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Z39.85-2001 The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
Metadata is structured information that describes, explains, locates, or
otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use or manage an information
resource. The Dublin Core was originally developed to be simple and
concise, and to describe Web-based documents. The current standard
defines fifteen metadata elements for resource description in a crossdisciplinary information environment.
NISO Press, 2001 16 pp. ISBN: 1-880124-53-X Price: $39
Metadata Made Simpler by Gail Hodge
This introduction to metadata will help you understand what metadata
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offers. Dublin Core, GILS, metadata creation and mapping are
covered. A list of Web resources and glossary are included.
NISO Press, 2001 12 pp. ISBN: 1-880124-50-5 Price: $20
Z39.78-2000 Library Binding
Binding is the first line of defense in library preservation and can
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NISO Press, 2000 40 pp. ISBN: 1-880124-43-2 Price: $59
Z39.82-2001 Title Pages for Conference Publications
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so research results can be easily found and shared.
NISO Press, 2001 24 pp. ISBN: 1-880124-42-2 Price: $39
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Details the information to feature in catalogs and promotional literature describing products used to store, bind, or repair library materials. This information applies to the full items library's buy including
books, pamphlets, sound recordings, videos, films, CDs, manuscripts,
maps, and photographs.
NISO Press, 2001 48pp. ISBN: 1-880124-49-1 Price: $49
Z39.79-2001 Environmental Conditions for Exhibiting Library
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Explains how to exhibit and display library and archival items—
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NISO Press, 2001 36 pp. ISBN: 1-880124-44-0 Price: $49
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