[Asis-l] NISO Releases Altmetrics Definitions and Use Cases for Public Comment

[NISO Announce]

Baltimore, MD - March 22, 2016 - The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) seeks comments on the draft Altmetrics Definitions and
Use Cases document, NISO RP-25-201X-1. The draft is an output of the NISO
Altmetrics Initiative, a two-phase project aiming to address limitations
and gaps that may hinder the adoption of altmetrics, an expansion of tools
available for measuring scholarly impact of research in the knowledge
environment. Draft output from one NISO altmetrics working group studying
data quality <http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/> was
released for comment earlier this month, and further draft outputs from a
third working group addressing specific output types, including data
metrics and use of persistent identifiers, will be released soon.

"The Definitions and Use Cases document is short, but encapsulates the many
discussions the working group held to review and hash out definitions from
many diverse sources of information in the altmetrics field," remarks Robin
Chin Roemer, Instructional Design & Outreach Services Librarian at the
University of Washington Libraries, and co-chair of Working Group A
(Definitions & Use Cases), the group that developed this document. "We also
include a statement about the role that alternative assessment metrics
plays in research evaluation, to help place the document in context and
advise on altmetrics' possible applications."

"Use cases for altmetrics are driven by different stakeholders in the
research ecosystem," adds Michael Habib, a consultant working in scholarly
communication, publishing, and library markets and co-chair of Working
Group A (Definitions & Use Cases). "The NISO document means to highlight
the different ways in which the stakeholders collect, develop, and consume
altmetrics, and to explain and contextualize commonalities between
stakeholders' needs, goals, and usages."

"Members of the working group and NISO are interested in receiving wide
feedback on this draft document, to be incorporated into the final version
to be published by NISO later this spring," comments Nettie Lagace, NISO
Associate Director for Programs. "Working Group A's output lies the
groundwork for the other two working groups in that the definition of terms
used allows different stakeholders in this space to understand when they
are talking about the same thing. In addition, the development of use cases
and their relationship to stakeholder groups clarifies requirements and
priorities for further development."

The draft Recommended Practice is open for public comments through April
20, 2016. To download the draft or submit online comments, visit the NISO
Altmetrics Initiative web page at
http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/

*About NISO*
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of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and
effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in
research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website <http://www.niso.org/>.
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