[Asis-l] NISO Releases Draft Technical Report, Issues in Vocabulary Management, for Public Comment

[NISO Announce]

Baltimore, MD - June 19, 2017 - The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) seeks comments on a new draft Technical Report, Issues
in Vocabulary Management
<http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/18054/TR-06-201x_Issues_in_Vocabulary_Management.pdf>.
This document is one outcome from the NISO Bibliographic Roadmap
Development Project, which was conducted beginning in 2013 with funding
from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Bibliographic Roadmap work
examined requirements for usability and adoption of advanced bibliographic
exchange in a global network environment and its final report
<http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/13327/NISO_14007BibliographicRoadmapDevelopmentDoc_FINAL4.pdf>,
published in April 2014, prioritized several areas of potential future
work, including those included in this technical report: policies
supporting vocabulary use and reuse; documentation for vocabularies; and
requirements for preservation of RDF vocabularies.

As interest in the new environment for sharing bibliographic information
grows, questions about appropriate policies and the supporting
infrastructure come to the fore. The intent of this Technical Report is to
provide a background on vocabulary management for those operating in the
current transitional environment, where there may be less knowledge of
policies and social constructs and less practical experience in moving
forward using a common infrastructure. The technical report is also
intended to position general recommendations for future gap-filling work.

"The goal of discussing all of these activities is to highlight the
importance of stability in the vocabulary environment, particularly
regarding the need for interoperability as descriptive information moves
into the Linked Open Data environment," notes Diane Hillmann, Principal of
Metadata Management Associates LLC and co-chair of the Use and Reuse
working group. "These issues are not new and we see the recent upswing of
interest in linked data feeding interest in this area. We hope that this
technical report will promote further solutions work."

"The NISO community consists of librarians, publishers, and system and
service providers, and of course the document is written for them,"
comments Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director for Programs. "But beyond
these groups we hope the document may also help the many individuals and
groups building and sharing bibliographic and other descriptive data, as
well as knowledge managers within a variety of organizations using
vocabularies to solve problems."

The NISO Issues in Vocabulary Management technical report is available for
public comment from June 19 to July 19, 2017. To download the draft
document or submit comments, visit the NISO project page at
http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/BibliographicRoadmap/. All input is welcome.

*About NISO*
NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance
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/>.