[Asis-standards] One More Upcoming NISO Vote

[Baden Hughes]

Hi Mark

This consolidation of many minor and continuous improvements and
reformatting is definitely an improvement over the earlier 2004 version.

My particularly biased perspective on this is actually about
mapping/comparison of other similar national standards for library metrics
and statistics and cross walk reporting against them for international
comparison purposes, and the restructuring is going to make that work a lot
easier.

So I think we should vote YES.

Baden

On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Mark Needleman <mneedlem at ufl.edu> wrote:

>
> Folks
>
> there is one more NISO standard Coming up for review in March:
>
>  NISO Z39.7-201x, Information Services and Use: metrics & statistics for
> libraries and information providers -- Data Dictionary
>
> This is a ballot to approve NISO Z39.7-201x, Information Services and Use:
> metrics & statistics for libraries and information providers -- Data
> Dictionary.
>
> This is a revision to the 2004 edition of the standard. This standard is
> now continuously maintained by the Z39.7 Standing Committee. That means
> that comments and change requests can be sent continuously to the
> committee, which considers them at least twice per year. When a sufficient
> number of changes have been accepted (and/or the standard reaches its
> regular review period), the proposed revision is balloted.
>
> In general, the changes to the standard are:
>
> The accepted comments and additional changes made by the Z39.7 Standing
> Committee to reflect changes in cited statistics surveys and new statistics
> to reflect changes for electronic documents and related services were
> added. One notable change is the integration of the former Appendix
> regarding Methods of Measurement into the body of the standard. The 2012
> version is an aggregation of all the changes made since the standard was
> transferred to continuous maintenance. After using the online data
> dictionary, it became more apparent that document layout and organization
> were not fully complete. Some sections have been cleaned up, reformatted,
> and better organized (resulting in many very small changes made throughout
> the document). Also, the e-metrics have been integrated to make them easier
> to use.
>
> Your voting options are:
> Yes - approve the revision (comments are optional)
> No - do not approve the revision (comments are required)
> Abstain from voting (comments are required)
>
> Comments and a recommendation for a vote needed by 3/15
>
> I have attached the draft standard document to this note
>
> Mark
>
>
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