[Asis-standards] Upcoming votes

Wed Sep 11 14:22:24 EDT 2013

Folks since the ASIST meeting is coming up in November, I thought I would
send out a list of all of the upcoming votes that are listed - even though
many of them are not due for awhile - if there are any issues we can discuss
them in Montreal

Because of the size and number of attachments Ill be sending them out in
multiple messages

Mark

1)  ISO/DIS 21127, Information and documentation - A reference ontology for
the interchange of cultural heritage information

This is a revision to the first edition of the standard that provides a
conceptual basis for the mediation of information between cultural heritage
organizations such as museums, libraries and archives. It specifies an
ontology for cultural heritage information: a formal representation of the
conceptual scheme, or "world view", underlying the database applications and
documentation systems that are used by cultural heritage institutions.

Changes from the first edition include new classes and properties and minor
rewrites for clarification and to correct errors. The revised document is
intended to be backwards-compatible with the previous version, although it
does make some additions/changes to elements. 

If this standard is approved, it may proceed directly to publication. If it
is not approved or the Working Group decides to make substantive changes
based on comments received, an FDIS ballot may be issued.

Your voting options are:

Yes - approve for publication [comments optional and should be editorial]
No - do not approve for publication [comments required and should be
substantive]
Abstain from voting [comments optional]

Vote not due until December - need comments and a vote by 12/15

2)     ISO/DIS 18626, Information and documentation - Interlibrary Loan
Transactions

This is a ballot for the new TC46/SC4 standard, ISO/DIS 18626, Information
and documentation - Interlibrary Loan Transactions. 

This International Standard specifies the transactions between libraries or
libraries and other agencies to handle requests for library items and
following exchange of messages. This standard is intended to at first
supplement and eventually succeed the existing international ILL standards
ISO 10160, ISO 10161-1 and ISO 10161-2, which are based on the outdated open
systems interconnection model. The introduction of the draft standard
provides some background on the relationship of the new standard to the
previous one.

If this draft is approved, it can go directly to publication. If substantive
comments are received and accepted by the Working group, another FDIS draft
may be submitted for ballot prior to publication.

Your voting options are:
Yes - approve this standard for publication (comments should only be
editorial)
No - do not approve this standard for advancement to the DIS stage (comments
are required and at least one comment should be substantive)
Abstain from voting (comments optional)

Note - I am a member of the ISO committee developing this standard so it
would be really helpful to have other folks review the document - I have a
couple of concerns about the draft that I have communicated to the editors
and Im trying to get a later draft than what's available on the NISO site to
see if those concerns have been addressed

Comments and vote recommendation needed by 11/15

3)  ISO/DIS 32000-2, Document management - Portable Document Format- Part 2:
PDF 2.0

This is a liaison ballot from ISO/TC 171, Document management applications,
Subcommittee SC 2, Application issues, Working Group 8, PDF, in cooperation
with TC130, Graphic technology, and TC46 SC11, Archives/records management
for the ballot of: ISO/DIS-32000-2, Document management - Portable document
format - Part 2: PDF 2.0.

This International Standard specifies a digital form for representing
electronic documents to enable users to exchange and view electronic
documents independent of the environment in which they were created or the
environment in which they are viewed or printed. The Adobe Systems version
PDF 1.7 is the basis for ISO 32000 Part 1. This document is ISO 32000 Part 2
which is a self contained replacement for Part 1 and specifies PDF 2.0. This
is an ISO standard for the full function PDF; there are several other
standards for specific applications of PDF that have evolved where limiting
the use of some features of PDF and requiring the use of others, enhances
the usefulness of PDF (e.g., PDF/A and PDF/X).

Since TC46 is a liaison organization for this ballot, we can only recommend
a vote and provide comments. The U.S. vote will be submitted by AIIM. If
approved, the standard will proceed directly to publication. If not approved
or if the Working Group gets comments requiring substantive changes, an FDIS
ballot may be issued.

Your voting options are:
Yes -- approve for publication [comments optional and should only be
editorial]
No -- do not approve for publication [comments required and should be
substantive]
Abstain -- from voting [comments optional]

Comments and a vote recommendation needed by 11/10

4)   ISO/CD 7098, Information and documentation -- Romanization of Chinese

This is a ballot for ISO/CD 7098, Information and documentation --
Romanization of Chinese. It explains the principles of romanization of
Modern Chinese Putonghua, the official language of the People's Republic of
China as defined in the Directives for the promotion of Putonghua,
promulgated in 1956-02-06 by the State Council of China.

This revision will be the 3rd edition of the standard. At the 38th plenary
meeting of ISO/TC 46 (6 May 2011, Sydney), Chinese delegates proposed to
further update ISO 7098:1991 to reflect current Chinese Romanization
practice and new development not only in China, but also in the world.

Where possible, please find someone familiar with Chinese and its
romanization to provide a review/comments on this draft standard.

Your voting options are:
Yes - approve for advancement to the Draft International Standard stage
(comments optional)
No - do not approve for advancement to DIS stage (comments optional)
Abstain from voting (comments optional, but reason for abstention
recommended).

Comments and a vote recommendation needed by 10/20

5)  Revision of ISO 2108, International Standard Book Number

This call for participation is being issued in accordance with Resolution 5
from the TC46/SC9 plenary meeting of 5 June 2013 in Paris, which said:

"At the request of the International ISBN Agency, ISO/TC 46/SC9 resolves to
revise ISO 2108, International Standard Book Number. ISO/TC 46/SC9 requests
the members to nominate experts to serve on the Working Group by 31 October,
2013 and resolves to appoint Stella Griffiths as convener."

The main issues identified for the revision are related to the use (and
mis-use) of the ISBN for e-books. For additional information, see the
referenced document to this ballot, which is the report that the ISBN Agency
submitted for the Paris meeting.

This call is for U.S. nominees to the Working Group. Individuals located in
other countries that are interested in participating need to go through
their country's member body in TC46/SC9 to be nominated.

You can nominate yourself or someone else. If nominating someone else,
please get that person's agreement to participate on this Working Group
before nominating. Participation is generally done via e-mail and
teleconference or videoconference. Occasionally, the WG may meet in person
in conjunction with a TC46 meeting week, but attendance at the in-person
meetings is not required for participation. (The 2014 TC46 in-person meeting
will take place in Washington, DC.)

Your vote options are:
Yes - I want to participate or nominate someone to participate (include name
and contact information of the nominee in the comments)
No - I do not want to participate or nominate anyone.
Abstain from voting. 

If anyone wants to volunteer or knows of someone who would be suitable to
participate in this working group let me know by

1015 **( before ASIST Meeting)***

6)     Revision of ISO 5127, Information and documentation - Vocabulary

This is a ballot to call for additional participants to the working group
that is revising ISO 5127, Information and documentation -- Vocabulary. On
the CD ballot for the revision, there were extensive comments and the
Working Group is looking for more help in addressing all the issues and
suggestions.

As noted in the resolution at the TC46 meeting in Paris:
RESOLUTION 2013-04: Revision of ISO 5127
ISO/TC 46 approves the recommendation of WG 4 following the positive vote on
ISO CD 5127 on the revision of the standard "Information and documentation -
Vocabulary" and agrees to advance the draft to the DIS development stage.
However in preparing the DIS, WG 4 is instructed to:
-- take full account of the many comments that were made during the vote on
the CD;
-- restore the French translation of each English term defined in the CD as
it is already the case in the ISO 5127 standard currently in force;
-- establish a contact with ISO/TC 37 to check the compatibility of the
future DIS with the terminology standards of ISO/TC 37; 
-- encourage other experts, including English, French and German speakers,
especially those who made the comments on the CD, to participate in the
on-going work of the group.

SAC (China) has been appointed as Secretariat of WG 4 and Ms LIU Chunyan as
its Convenor.

Annette Reilly (Society for Technical Communications) is on the Working
Group. We are hoping for at least one additional U.S. representative to help
on this project.

This call is for U.S. nominees to the Working Group. Individuals located in
other countries that are interested in participating need to go through
their country's member body in TC46/SC9 to be nominated.
You can nominate yourself or someone else. If nominating someone else,
please get that person's agreement to participate on this Working Group
before nominating. Participation is generally done via e-mail and
teleconference or videoconference. Occasionally, the WG may meet in person
in conjunction with a TC46 meeting week, but attendance at the in-person
meetings is not required for participation. (The 2014 TC46 in-person meeting
will take place in Washington, DC.)

Your vote options are:
Yes - I want to participate or nominate someone to participate (include name
and contact information of the nominee in the comments)

No - I do not want to participate or nominate anyone.

Abstain from voting.

I may have sent this out previously - if not I apologize

If anyone wants to volunteer or knows of someone who would be suitable to
participate in this working group let me know by

9/23

There is no document that was attached to this ballot - I will send the
other documents out in this and some following messages

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