From mneedlem at ufl.edu Wed Apr 2 12:45:15 2014 From: mneedlem at ufl.edu (Mark Needleman-UF) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 12:45:15 -0400 Subject: [Asis-standards] FW: NISO Newsline April 2014 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <010601cf4e92$ec9456d0$c5bd0470$@ufl.edu> This may be of interest Mark From: newsline at list.niso.org [mailto:newsline at list.niso.org] On Behalf Of Cynthia Hodgson Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 11:58 AM To: newsline at list.niso.org Subject: NISO Newsline April 2014 Read this newsletter online at: http://www.niso.org/publications/newsline/2014/newslineapr2014.html NISO: How the information world connects NISO Home NISO Newsline Archives News and Events Specs and Standards NISO Publications NISO/BISG Forum Headshot of NISO Eexecutive Director, Todd Carpenter April 2014 One of the misperceptions that NISO often faces is that we are strictly a US-based organization. Obviously, our name beginning with "National" does reinforce people's thoughts in this regard. However, NISO and our work are deeply international and broadly applied around the world. Our membership is not strictly American?in fact about 20% of our membership is based outside of the US. Importantly, NISO is deeply engaged at a variety of international levels on standardization and technological issues in our community. We participate in more than 20 international groups and meetings per year, both in person and virtually. These range from general industry meetings to international standardization efforts and specific project meetings. These activities help to tie together the important work taking place worldwide and to advance the interoperability of our information landscape. I expect that in the coming months some of the work incubating at the Research Data Alliance , JISC , Force11 , and the Linked Content Coalition will move higher on the priority lists of the NISO community. One of the international roles NISO performs is to work via ANSI to represent US interests on the ISO technical committee for Information and Documentation (TC46) . We also serve the broader information community in the role of Secretariat of the TC46 subcommittee on Identification and Description (SC9) . As I mentioned last month, NISO will be hosting the international community at the plenary week of TC46 meetings in Washington in partnership with the Library of Congress on May 5-9, 2014?and with the generous support of our meeting sponsors: Bowker (premier sponsor), CrossRef , OCLC , and SAGE . There are still a few days left to register . During that week, NISO will be hosting a gala reception at the National Archives to welcome the ISO community. We are also taking the opportunity to celebrate NISO's 75th Anniversary. When we were founded by a team of visionaries back in 1939, I doubt any in the room could have foreseen the information exchange community of today, where a significant portion of content is created and distributed digitally and the collections of many institutions have been scanned and are also accessible online. These visionaries might have recognized the important role that standards would play in that exchange, but it's doubtful they could have envisioned the complexity and nuance of those developments. I do hope that we are honoring that team of pioneers and their contributions through the work that we are now engaged in. Finally, yesterday brought some interesting news, and not just of the April Fool's variety. Innovative Interfaces, Inc. , announced on Tuesday that it had acquired Polaris Library Systems . This trend of consolidation continues to impact our community and while there likely will be synergies and efficiencies under III's adept leadership, the potential options libraries may have in terms of service offerings and management approaches is dwindling. In the longer term, will the private equity firms that now control the majority of the library systems market be interested in making the significant development investments that will be needed in the coming decade to advance efforts like BIBFRAME? Will that kind of investment and service improvement (if they can be realized) be sufficient to maintain their long-term investment goals in the library community? I don't know, but we will have to wait and see how this and other consolidations impact those development efforts. I hope to see some of you as we celebrate hosting the ISO community along with our own 75th Anniversary in Washington, DC next month. Todd Carpenter?s Signature Todd A. Carpenter Executive Director NISO Reports ? Demand-Driven Acquisition of Monographs Draft Recommended Practice Available for Public Comment ? Annual Year in Review Issue of Information Standards Quarterly Published ? April Webinar: Back from Marrakesh: Implementing an Accessible Content World ? April Virtual Conference: Dealing with the Data Deluge: Successful Techniques for Scientific Data Management ? May Webinar: Getting to the Right Content: Link Resolvers and Knowledgebases ? Joint NISO/NASIG May Webinar: Playing the Numbers: Best Practices in Acquiring, Interpreting and Applying Usage Statistics ? New on the NISO Website New Specs & Standards ? ARMA International Recruiting Volunteers for New Technical Report Project on Retention Management for Records and Information ? ISO/TR 18128:2014, Information and documentation ? Risk assessment for records processes and systems ? OASIS Approves Data 4.0 Standards for an Open, Programmable Web ? W3C Recommendation, Metadata API for Media Resources 1.0 ? W3C Working Group Note, Linked Data Platform Use Cases and Requirements ? W3C First Public Working Draft, Annotation Use Cases Media Stories ? International ISBN Agency New Database and Website ? DataCite, re3data.org, and Databib Announce Collaboration ? North American Working Group To Revise Model License ? Digital Preservation File Format Policies of ARL Member Libraries: An Analysis ? Metadata Matters ? Name Identification Using the ISNI: An Interview with Laura Dawson ? Open Access: Progress, Possibilities, and the Changing Scholarly Communications Ecosystem NISO Reports Demand-Driven Acquisition of Monographs Draft Recommended Practice Available for Public Comment NISO is seeking comments on the draft recommended practice Demand-Driven Acquisition of Monographs (NISO RP 20 201x). Launched in June 2012, the NISO Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) Working Group was charged with developing a flexible model for DDA (also referred to as patron-driven acquisition) that works for publishers, vendors, aggregators, and libraries. The draft Recommended Practice discusses and makes recommendations about key aspects of DDA, goals and objectives of a DDA program, choosing parameters of the program, profiling options, managing MARC records for DDA, removing materials from the consideration pool, assessment of the program, providing long-term access to un-owned content, consortial considerations for DDA, and public library DDA. The draft recommended practice is open for public comment through April 24, 2014. To download the draft or submit online comments, visit the Demand-Driven Acquisition Working Group webpage. Annual Year in Review Issue of Information Standards Quarterly Published The Spring 2014 issue of Information Standards Quarterly magazine providing a summary of the 2013 standards development work conducted by NISO and by the international ISO Information and Documentation committee (TC46) has been published in open access on the NISO website. NISO provides this Year in Review issue on an annual basis to keep readers apprised of all the accomplishments of our community in the past year. In addition to the NISO and TC46 Year in Review articles and the annual reference listing of all of NISO's published standards, recommended practices, and technical reports, the issue includes a timeline with milestones over the past five years in celebration of NISO's 75th anniversary this summer. Information Standards Quarterly is available electronically in open access from the NISO website at: www.niso.org/publications/isq/. ISQ is also available in print format by subscription or in print on demand. April Webinar: Back from Marrakesh: Implementing an Accessible Content World In the fall of 2013, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) agreed to a landmark treaty in Marrakesh, Morocco to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled. This treaty outlined for the first time a set of principles regarding the rights of the print-disabled to have all content made equally accessible for them. The opportunities afforded by digital content distribution to provide accessibility functionality built-in from the start of a publisher's production process and then be carried throughout the distribution process are tremendous. NISO's April 9 webinar Back from Marrakesh: Implementing an Accessible Content World?to be held from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. EDT?will provide an overview of the treaty, discuss its potential implications, and describe how standardized technology can facilitate access to the visually-impaired community. Topics and speakers are: ? Setting the Standards: Identifying Rights for Print-Disabled and Visually Impaired ? George Kerscher, Secretary General, DAISY Consortium, and President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) ? Making History in Marrakesh: How the Blind Led Everyone Else ? Thiru Balasubramaniam, Geneva Representative, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) ? Walking the Walk: A Publisher's Perspective on Moving from Aspiration to Reality in Making Content Accessible ? Paul Belfanti, Director, Content Architecture, Enterprise Architecture & Core Platforms, Pearson Education Visit the event webpage to register and for more information. April Virtual Conference: Dealing with the Data Deluge: Successful Techniques for Scientific Data Management With the expansion of digital data collection and the increased expectations of data sharing, researchers are turning to their libraries or institutional repositories as a place to store and preserve that data. Many institutions have created such data management services and see the data curation role as a growing and important element of their service portfolio. NISO's April 23 virtual conference Dealing with the Data Deluge: Successful Techniques for Scientific Data Management?to be held from 11:00 am to 5:00 p.m. EDT? will explore some of the practical lessons from those who have implemented data management and developed best practices, as well as provide some insight into the evolving issues the community faces. Topics and speakers are: ? Keynote Speaker ? Jan Brase, Ph.D., German National Library of Science and Technology ? Guidelines and Resources for Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Data Access Plans ? Jared Lyle, Director of Data Curation Services, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan ? Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles: Implementation and Compliance in the Dataverse Repository ? Merce Corsas, Ph.D., Director of Data Science, Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), Harvard University ? Purdue University Research Repository (PURR): A Commitment to Supporting Researchers ? Michael Witt, Head, Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2); Associate Professor of Library Science, Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) ? The Roles of Data Citation in Data Management ? Christine L. Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies, UCLA ? Is This Data Fit for My Use? The Challenges and Opportunities Data Provenance Presents ? Adriane Chapman, MITRE ? A Durable Space: Technologies for Accessing Our Collective Digital Heritage ? David Wilcox, Product Manager, DuraSpace ? The SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) Project: A Joint Initiative of ARL, AAU, and APLU ? Judy Ruttenberg, Program Director for Transforming Research Libraries, Association of Research Libraries (ARL) For more information and to register, visit the event webpage . May Webinar: Getting to the Right Content: Link Resolvers and Knowledgebases Link resolvers have become an important element of providing access to full-text electronic content and are now ubiquitous in both the library and publishing community. These systems work well enough a majority of the time. However, they are not entirely problem free and, as a result, users may not always obtain access to information which their institutions have licensed for them. The management of the large volumes of linking data necessary to support these services is a problem in scale as well as in detail. NISO's May 14 webinar Getting to the Right Content: Link Resolvers and Knowledgebases?to be held 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. EDT?will review several recent projects that have worked to improve the reliability of these systems. Topics and speakers are: ? KBART: A Recommended Practice to Increase Accessibility and Discovery ? Christine Stohn, Product Manager, Ex Libris ? Building the Global Open Knowledgebase ? Kristen Wilson, Associate Head of Acquisitions & Discovery / GOKb Editor, North Carolina State University Libraries ? What We Learned about OpenURL in NISO's IOTA Initiative ? Adam Chandler, Electronic Resources User Experience Librarian, Cornell University For more information and to register, visit the event webpage . Joint NISO/NASIG May Webinar: Playing the Numbers: Best Practices in Acquiring, Interpreting, and Applying Usage Statistics In a time of shrinking budgets and growing reliance on electronic resources, the collection and analysis of usage statistics has become a staple of the library world. But while usage statistics may be ubiquitous, many librarians still struggle with the best methods of interpreting the data. The ability to effectively understand and apply usage data is an important skill for librarians to master as they attempt to analyze their collections and justify their expenses to administrations. NISO and NASIG's joint webinar Playing the Numbers: Best Practices in Acquiring, Interpreting, and Applying Usage Statistics?to be held on May 21 from 1:00 to 2:30 EDT?will highlight the ins and outs of the latest COUNTER Code of Practice, as well as discuss the process of analyzing the data once harvested. Topics and speakers are: ? COUNTER Update: Release 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for e-Resources ? Peter Shepherd, Project Director, COUNTER ? Integrating COUNTER Statistics within the Information Workflow ? Oliver Pesch, Chief Product Strategist and Senior Vice President, EBSCO Information Services ? TERMS: Techniques for Electronic Resources Management: Integrating Usage Data ? Jill Emery, Collection Development Librarian, Portland State University Library For more information and to register, visit the event webpage . New on the NISO Website ? The Infrastructure of Open Access Part 1: Knowing What is Open, March 5 webinar presentation slides ? The Infrastructure of Open Access Part 2: Toward a Functioning Business Ecosystem, March 12 webinar presentation slides ? Demand-Driven Acquisition Recommended Practice, March 10 open teleconference recording ? International ISBN Agency report to TC46 for Washington, DC meeting ? International ISMN Agency report to TC46 for Washington, DC meeting ? SERU Registry Updates ? New libraries/consortia (Grand Valley State University, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oberlin College Library, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, University of Wisconsin Colleges, University of Wisconsin [multiple locations]); new publishers/content providers (Eleven International Publishing, NA Publishing, Inc., Textiles Intelligence, Ltd.) New Specs & Standards ARMA International Recruiting Volunteers for New Technical Report Project on Retention Management for Records and Information This forthcoming ARMA International technical report will cover elements essential to the structuring of a records and information management (RIM) program's retention and disposition component including: authority and responsibility; identifying and classifying records for retention purposes; and methods for determining retention periods for all records. The existing ARMA International publication, Retention Management for Records and Information, was originally released in 2005 and is currently available as a guideline. This project will allow a review of that publication and enable revisions to be made as appropriate. Volunteers interested in joining this project should e-mail standards at armaintl.org with the subject line "Join Retention Management Workgroup." ISO/TR 18128:2014, Information and documentation ? Risk assessment for records processes and systems This new technical report is intended to assist organizations in assessing risks to records processes and systems so they can ensure records continue to meet identified business needs as long as required. The report: a) establishes a method of analysis for identifying risks related to records processes and systems; b) provides a method of analyzing the potential effects of adverse events on records processes and systems; and c) provides guidelines for conducting an assessment of risks related to records processes and systems, and) provides guidelines for documenting identified and assessed risks in preparation for mitigation. OASIS Approves Data 4.0 Standards for an Open, Programmable Web The Open Data Protocol (OData) 4.0 and the OData JSON Format 4.0 are REST-based standards that simplify the querying and sharing of data across applications for re-use in the enterprise, cloud, and mobile devices. With OData, information can be accessed from a variety of sources including relational databases, file systems, content management systems, and traditional web sites. OData 4.0 and the OData JSON Format 4.0 are now official OASIS Standards, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. W3C Recommendation, Metadata API for Media Resources 1.0 This specification defines an API to access metadata information related to media resources on the Web. The overall purpose is to provide developers with a convenient access to metadata information stored in different metadata formats. The API provides means to access the set of metadata properties defined in the Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 specification. These properties are used as a pivot vocabulary in this API. The core of this specification is the definition of API interfaces for retrieving metadata information in synchronous and asynchronous modes. It also defines interfaces for structured return types along with the specification of the behavior of an API implementation. W3C Working Group Note, Linked Data Platform Use Cases and Requirements To foster the development of the Linked Data Platform specification, this document includes a set of user stories, use cases, scenarios, and requirements that motivate a simple read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to web resources that describe their state using RDF. The starting point for the development of these use cases is a collection of user stories that provide realistic examples describing how people may use read-write Linked Data. The use cases themselves are captured in a narrative style that describes a behavior, or set of behaviors, based on and using scenarios from these user stories. W3C First Public Working Draft, Annotation Use Cases This document was published by the W3C Digital Publishing Interest Group, in coordination with the Open Annotation Community Group, as a First Working Draft describing the set of use cases generated for Annotation and Social Reading. The initial version of this document focuses on books and, at this time, does not include requirements specific to magazines or newspapers. Comments regarding this document should be sent to public- digipub at w3.org (subscribe , archives ). Media Stories International ISBN Agency New Database and Website EDItEUR Newsletter, March 2014 The International ISBN Agency announced the release of its brand new modernized website. The web portal is more informative and intuitive than the previous site, and the accompanying database and ISBN management system available to the 150 national ISBN agencies around the world have also been overhauled with improved functionality and greater ease of use. (Read the full story. ) NISO Note: NISO is the Secretariat for ISO TC46/SC9 , the committee with responsibility for the ISBN standard. DataCite, re3data.org, and Databib Announce Collaboration re3data.org press release, March 25, 2014 "Databib and "re3data.org ? Registry of Research Data Repositories" are pleased to announce their plan to merge their two projects into one service that will be managed under the auspices of DataCite by the end of 2015. The aim of this merger is to reduce duplication of effort and to better serve the research community with a single, sustainable registry of research data repositories that incorporates the best features of both projects." (Read the full story. ) NISO Note: To learn more about data management, attend NISO's April 23 virtual conference Dealing with the Data Deluge: Successful Techniques for Scientific Data Management . North American Working Group To Revise Model License Center for Research Libraries news release, March 13, 2014 "Libraries today must be strongly proactive in shaping the licenses that govern their campuses' electronic information resources. A multi- organizational effort is now underway to strengthen libraries' negotiating position in the e-resources marketplace. In 1997, the LIBLICENSE project (then at Yale Library and since 2011 at the Center for Research Libraries) cleared a path for librarians by creating the LIBLICENSE Model License. Now, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a vigorous overhaul of the Model License is in progress under the auspices of the Center for Research Libraries." (Read the full story. ) NISO Note: For an alternative to a license, see NISO's Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (SERU) recommended practice (NISO RP-7-2012). Association of Research Libraries, California Digital Library, Council on Library and Information Resources, Emory University Library, and Yale University Library are NISO members. Digital Preservation File Format Policies of ARL Member Libraries: An Analysis D-Lib Magazine, March/April 2014, 20 (3/4); by Kyle Rimkus, Thomas Padilla, Tracy Popp and Greer Martin "While concerted efforts have been made in the library community to encourage common standards, digital preservation policies regularly vary from one digital library service to another. In the interest of gaining a broad view of contemporary digital preservation practice in North American research libraries, this paper presents the findings of a study of file format policies at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions. It is intended to present the digital preservation community with an assessment of the level of trust currently placed in common file formats in digital library collections and institutional repositories." (Read the full story. ) NISO Note: NISO members mentioned in this article: Association of Research Libraries, Cornell University Library, Florida Virtual Campus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), OCLC, and University of Michigan Library. Metadata Matters IPG Blog, March 7, 2014; by Graham Bell "With online sales becoming yet more dominant, and sales through the high street shrinking further, data about your product?as opposed to the product itself?becomes your primary contact with the customer and reader. And yet, when judging a recent set of entries to an industry award, I noted that only one out of 14 otherwise excellent submissions specifically mentioned metadata quality. This is odd, and it shows that comprehensive, accurate, timely metadata still isn't a given." (Read the full story. ) NISO Note: A number of NISO initiatives are focused on improvements to metadata including Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics , Knowledge Base and Related Tools , Open Access Metadata and Indicators , and the Open Discovery Initiative . Name Identification Using the ISNI: An Interview with Laura Dawson The Scholarly Kitchen, March 12, 2014; by Todd A. Carpenter "As online systems for discovering and distributing content have grown, so too has the need for unambiguous identification of people and the parties exchanging that content. Several systems have been in development in the past couple of years, notably the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) and the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) system. How these two systems relate, engage each other, and serve community needs isn't always clear. In hopes of alleviating some of the confusion, I sat down with Laura Dawson from Bowker to discuss the International Standard Name Identifier, how it relates to ORCID, and other issues surrounding identity management systems. This is a summary of that conversation." (Read the full story. ) NISO Note: NISO is the Secretariat for ISO TC46/SC9 , the committee with responsibility for the ISNI standard. The I? (Institutional Identifiers) recommended practice (NISO RP-7-2013) is available from the NISO website . NISO members mentioned in this article are: Bowker, ProQuest, OCLC, Jisc Collections, Ringgold, and the British Library. Open Access: Progress, Possibilities, and the Changing Scholarly Communications Ecosystem Online Searcher, March/April 2014; by Abby Clobridge "By all accounts, we're past the tipping point with open access (OA). During the past 10 years, open access has moved from the domain of disruptive technology to an increasingly adopted approach to research dissemination. Within the publishing world, OA journals are becoming so widely accepted, even some long- established players are moving OA from the sidelines to the heart of their strategies for the future. Universities in countries around the world have passed open access policies and are incorporating OA into the way in which they capture, collect, and disseminate researcher output. Increasing numbers of research funding organizations and national governments are pushing for public access, open access, and open data. But even with policies springing up all over the world, a growing number of high-quality open access journals and an increasingly mature repository infrastructure, misconceptions about open access still abound." (Read the full story. ) NISO Note: NISO's two-part March webinar on Open Access Infrastructure discussed many of the issues and developments in OA. View the slide presentations for Part 1: Knowing What is Open and Part 2: Toward a Functioning Business Ecosystem . 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KBART Teleconference Welcome CARLI Calendar April 9 Back from Marrakesh: Implementing an Accessible Content World NISO Webinar April 14 KBART: KnowledgeBases and Related Tools NISO Open Teleconference April 23 Dealing with the Data Deluge: Successful Techniques for Scientific Data Management NISO Virtual Conference May 14 Getting to the Right Content: Link Resolvers and Knowledgebases NISO Webinar May 21 Playing the Numbers: Best Practices in Acquiring, Interpreting, and Applying Usage Statistics NISO/NASIG Webinar June 11 Fragmented Publishing: The Implications of Self-Publishing NISO Webinar June 16 Recap of ISO TC46 Meeting in Washington, DC, May 5-9, 2014 NISO Open Teleconference June 18 Transforming Assessment: Alternative Metrics and Other Trends NISO Virtual Conference June 26 - July 1 NISO @ ALA Annual 2014 Las Vegas June 27 NISO/BISG 8th Annual Forum: The Changing Standards Landscape Las Vegas Other Events of Interest April 4 - 6 UKSG Annual Meeting Harrogate, London, UK April 7 - 9 Computers in Libraries Washington, DC April 7 - 11 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2014) Seoul, Korea April 8 - 10 London Book Fair Earl's Court, London, UK May 1 - 2 American Society for Indexing 2014 Conference Charleston, SC May 1 - 4 NASIG Annual Conference Ft. Worth, TX May 2 - 5 Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting San Antonio, TX May 5 - 9 41st ISO TC46 Meeting Week Washington, DC News from NISO Members: Events & Education AIIM Webinar: The CIO's Perspective: Aligning IT, Records Management, and Legal for Successful Information Governance PLA Offering Three Preconferences for Public Library Staff at ALA Annual Conference Copyright Discussed on Next American Libraries Live Episode ALCTS Virtual Preconferences Coming in June ALA President Barbara Stripling's Free Webinar Series to Continue with 'Strategic Library Partnerships' LITA Preconferences to be held at ALA Annual LITA Web Course Available: Getting Started with GIS ASIS &T Researching Data Access and Preservation Summit, March 26-28, 2014, San Diego, California ARL Membership to Convene May 6-8 in Columbus, Ohio ARL-SAA Digital Archives Specialist Courses at U Alberta: Early-Bird Deadline Approaching Emerging Trends in Digital Stewardship to be Explored in Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, IMLS Sponsor Symposium Music Library Association April 17 Webinar: RDA for Music: Popular Music, Jazz, & World Music Audio Recordings National Archives Office of the Federal Register Hosts First PKI Conference: Conference Promotes Digitization of Federal Register Submissions Webinars discussing Swets and Ex Libris Partnership to Offer Streamlined Acquisitions to be held on April 8 , April 23 , and May 1 VTLS-Sponsored American Libraries Live Episode Available Online Information Resources Library and Information Science: A Guide to Key Literature and Sources published by ALA Editions New E-Book Examines Tablet Computers in the Academic Library Web Metrics for Library and Information Professionals Published by Facet Publishing El-Sherbini for her book RDA: Strategies for Implementation wins ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award Delivering Research Data Management Services: Fundamentals of Good Practice Published by Facet Publishing Strategies to Sustain Digitized Special Collections: Ithaka S+R/ARL Web Seminar Video and Q &A Online ARL Library Assessment Forum Highlights Value of Library Spaces ? Slides Online Using ARL Statistics in Budget Justification Analysis: An Example from U Florida Linked Open Data in the Cultural Heritage World: Issues for Information Creators and Users The Ithaka S+R 2013 US Library Survey is Now Available Jisc Collections Project Report: Who Are the winners? E-book Consortial Purchasing NARA's FY 2014-2018 Strategic Plan Awards & Grants American Library Association Presents Madison Award to NSA Oversight Group Maxwell's Complete Handbook for RDA wins 2014 ABC-CLIO Library Publishing Award IMLS, Sloan Foundation Jointly Award SHARE $1 Million to Develop Notification Service Library Journal and NoveList Announce the LibraryAware Community Award Recipients Modern Language Association and Columbia University Libraries Awarded Grant for the Development of Humanities CORE Organization Announcements ATLA Board Members Elected for 2014-2017 CLIR Appoints New Members to Digital Library Federation Advisory Committee SAA Council Creates Committee on Public Awareness Policy & Legislation American Library Association, Internet Archive Support Civil Liberties in Amicus Brief Library Copyright Alliance Comments on EU Consultation on Copyright Rules Product & Project Announcements McGraw-Hill Professional Delivers Premier Content to Public and School Libraries Worldwide via the 3M Cloud Library ProQuest Completes Digitization of NAACP Papers Vienna Academy Improves Research Outcomes for Arts Scholars EBL Unveils the New LibCentral The Summon? Service Goes Responsive The Historical Irish Times ? and a lot of Other Irish Research Options at Your Fingertips Gale Connects Customers with Rare Pieces of History with the Launch of Several New Collections Gale Expands Product Strategy and Bolsters Publishing Program to Address Critical Library Needs Wiley Participating in Copyright Clearance Center's Republication Service Copyright Clearance Center Launches MOOC Content Licensing Solution Research Solutions Licenses Data from CrossRef.org, Bolsters Efficiency in Systems and Business Processes Document Delivery Performance Bolstered with Reprints Desk's Completed CrossRef Digital Object Identifier Project EBSCO and ER &L Partner to Provide Library Research Fellowship EBSCO Information Services to Provide Rosetta Stone Language-Learning Resources to Libraries Emerald Supports Free Access to Research for UK Public Emerald Collaborates with Kudos to Boost Research Impact Ex Libris Releases Version 9 of Voyager For Libraries: Index Data's MasterKey Express ? putting Free Open Content to Work Innovative Acquires Polaris Library Systems Innovative and Bibliotheca Announce Strategic Alliance Focused on Integration of Technology Solutions for Libraries JSTOR Launches Hebrew-Language Journal Collection Jisc Collections Pilot Projects for Extending Licences to Scholarly Content Latest News on Knowledge Unlatched Pilot World Digital Library Reaches Milestone as 10,000 Items Now Accessible NetAdvance and OCLC to add Japanese-Language Content to WorldCat New WorldShare Interlibrary Loan features Include IFM Indicator, Changes to Batch Processing and Renewal Workflows Version Tracking ? PLOS Participates in the CrossMark Program From CrossRef PLOS' New Data Policy: Part Two Elsevier Announces Launch of Program to Include Cited References for Archival Content in Scopus Elsevier Publishes Five New Immunology Books Elsevier Publishes Five New Books on Toxicology Mendeley Readership Statistics Available in Scopus SAGE and CQ Press Launch the Ultimate Political Database and Data Manipulation Tool, U.S. Political Stats New Sage 100 ERP 2014 Enables Businesses to Increase Revenue and Improve Customer Service SAA Publications Board Announces Next Nineteen Titles in the Series Trends in Archives Practice Reuters Launches Reuters Access, Making Its Best Archival Photos and Footage Available Through a New E-commerce Website Reuters to Roll Out RLO Streaming Video Coverage VTLS Enjoys Success and Growth in 2013 Customer Announcements CLIC Selects ProQuest Intota Library Services Platform as its Next Shared System Georgia Public Library Service to Offer NoveList Select University of Western Australia Selects Ex Libris Alma University of Oklahoma Selects Ex Libris Alma The Tor Vergata University of Rome Joins the Italian Alma Early Adopter programme Durham University Selects Ex Libris Primo for the University Library and Heritage Collections The Institute of Education (University of London) Chooses Ex Libris Primo Four Institutions Join the Alma Early-Adopter Program in Italy Missouri's MOBIUS and Colorado's Prospector Announce Library Materials Sharing Agreement Using Innovative's INN-Reach Four County Library System (NY) Selects SkyRiver Cataloging Utility Escondido Public Library and Technology Center Selects Sierra Library Services Platform Ohio University Libraries Upgrade to Sierra Library Services Platform Duquesne University Libraries Select Sierra Library Services Platform Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) Upgrades to Sierra Library Services Platform Library Support for Portico Expands Across Europe Scottsdale Public Library Chooses Polaris Library Systems as New ILS Vendor CARL ?X Selected as the Next Generation ILS by Metropolitan Library System Copyright ? 2014 National Information Standards Organization 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302, Baltimore, MD 21211 Phone: 866.957.1593 Fax: 410.685.5278 E-mail: nisohq at niso.org Newsline editor: Cynthia Hodgson For permission to photocopy or use material electronically from Newsline, ISSN 1559-2774, please access www.copyright.com or contact Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978.750.8400. CCC is a not-for-profit organization that provides licenses and registration for a variety of users. Subscribe to NISO Newsline Unsubscribe from NISO Newsline From mneedlem at ufl.edu Sun Apr 13 16:03:33 2014 From: mneedlem at ufl.edu (Mark Needleman) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:03:33 -0400 Subject: [Asis-standards] ISO vote Message-ID: Folks since I didn't hear any opposition i just cast a YES vote to advance ISO/CD 15489-1, Information and documentation ? Records management ? Part 1: General to Draft International Standard status if anyone has any problems with this we have until Monday 4/14/2014 at midnight to change our vote mark From mneedlem at ufl.edu Tue Apr 15 08:56:06 2014 From: mneedlem at ufl.edu (Mark Needleman-UF) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:56:06 -0400 Subject: [Asis-standards] NISO vote Message-ID: <005201cf58aa$11177bb0$33467310$@ufl.edu> Folks Hearing no objections or comments I voted YES on NISO Z39.99-201x, ResourceSync Framework Specification v.1.0 to be approved as an American National Standard - with the following comment: We understand that the nature of the problem being addressed may require the complexity built in to this standard - but have concerns about how difficult it may make building implementations. Perhaps a non-normative implementation guide could be created to assist implementer's in building implementations since the sheer size and complexity of the standard may make that difficult by just using the standards document itself If anyone has any comments or objections we have until tomorrow night to change our vote mark From MNeedleman at flvc.org Fri Apr 18 08:41:58 2014 From: MNeedleman at flvc.org (Mark Needleman) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:41:58 +0000 Subject: [Asis-standards] more ISO votes Message-ID: Some more ISO documents requiring votes - all relevant docuemnts are attached to this note mark -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) ISO/DIS 5127, Information and documentation -- Vocabulary This standard provides the basic terminologies and their definitions in the field of information and documentation, which promotes knowledge sharing and information exchange in the domain of information and documentation. Since this standard provides the key definitions that other standards in the TC46 portfolio will often refer to, you are encouraged to thoroughly review this draft. The previous committee draft received extensive comments and this new draft has numerous changes. If this draft receives sufficient approval and no substantive changes are needed as a result of the comments, it could go directly to publication. 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) Comments and a recommendation for a vote needed by 5/1 2) New Work Item Proposal TC46/SC10/N23, Information and documentation - Holdings Management This is a new work item proposal from TC46/SC10 to develop a new international technical report called Information and documentation - Holdings Management. This report will provide recommendations for the storage and exhibition of documents, books and other archive and library materials. If the US sends in an Approve vote for this new project, we are required to also provide comments on the "market need" for this standard and to nominate at least one expert to the working group. If you vote Yes, please provide your comments on the "market need". If you wish to nominate an expert, please include the name and contact information in your comments. You may nominate yourself or someone else. If you nominate someone else, please get their agreement to be on this Working Group before you nominate them. Your voting options are: Yes - approve the creation of this new project (Comments required regarding market relevance; expert nomination is optional.) No - do not approve this new project (Comments required on reasons why not.) Abstain from voting (comments optional) Comments and a recommendation for a vote needed by 5/7. If anyone would like to be nominated as an expert for this work (or knows of someone who should be nominated) please get their contact information to me) - note that if we vote YES or NO comments explaining our resoning are required 3) New Work Item Proposal TC46/SC10/N24, Information and documentation - Management of the environmental conditions for cultural collections This is a new work item proposal from TC46/SC10 to develop a technical report on Information and documentation - Management of the environmental conditions for cultural collections. A copy of the new work item proposal is available for download from the ballot webpage and the link in the announcement e-mail. If the US sends in an Approve vote for this new project, we are required to also provide comments on the "market need" for this standard and to nominate at least one expert to the working group. If you vote Yes, please provide your comments on the "market need". 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