[Asis-standards] Fwd: FW: NISO Publishes Maintenance Revisions of Dublin Core and SUSHI Standards

[Mark Needleman]

FYI

mark



On 3/5/13 12:17 PM, "Cynthia Hodgson" <chodgson at NISO.ORG> wrote:

>The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the
>publication of maintenance revisions of two widely used standards: The
>Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2012) and The
>Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol
>(ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2013). Both standards were revised to make very minor
>updates. The Dublin Core standard defines fifteen metadata elements for
>resource description in a cross-disciplinary information environment and
>is
>used as the basis for most metadata standards in use today. The SUSHI
>Protocol defines an automated request and response model for the
>harvesting
>of electronic resource usage data and is required for conformance with the
>COUNTER Code of Practice.
>
>"The DCMI Usage Board approved a change to the usage comment for the
>'subject' element to eliminate some ambiguity with the 'coverage'
>element,"
>explains Thomas Baker, Chief Information Officer for the Dublin Core
>Metadata Initiative, the maintenance agency for the Dublin Core standard.
>"The new version of the ANSI/NISO standard corresponds to version 1.1 of
>the
>specification on the DCMI website."
>
>"The SUSHI Standing Committee initiated this revision of the standard to
>make two minor updates," states Oliver Pesch, Chief Strategist for EBSCO
>Information Services and Co-chair of the SUSHI Standing Committee. "An
>additional error code was added and the appendix about security
>considerations was updated to reflect technology changes and experience
>gained since the initial implementation of the SUSHI protocol."
>
>"Standards do not drop into a black hole once they are published," states
>Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. "They must be supported and
>regularly reviewed to ensure they are kept up-to-date. Both the Dublin
>Core
>and the SUSHI standard receive ongoing oversight from their respective
>Maintenance Agency and Standing Committee. The maintenance revisions just
>published are examples of how the standards are revised to address even
>minor issues found during implementation."
>
>Both standards are available for free download from the NISO website;
>Dublin
>Core at www.niso.org/standards/z39-85-2012 and SUSHI at
>www.niso.org/standards/z39-93-2013/. Additional information on the use of
>the Dublin Core standard is available from the DCMI website at
>www.dublincore.org. SUSHI FAQs, schemas, and implementation information
>are
>available at www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi.
>
>About the National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
>NISO 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
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>association accredited by the American National Standards Institute
>(ANSI).
>More information about NISO is available on its website: www.niso.org.
>