[Asis-standards] Upcoming votes
Mark Needleman
needleman_mark at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 16 09:56:32 EST 2015
Folks
in case you don't have anything to do over the holidays there are a few votes coming up in Early January:
Relevant documents attached to this note
1) New Work Item Proposal ISO 18461 key indicators for museums
This is a TC46/SC8 new work item proposal to develop a new standard Key indicators for museums” .
An International Standard “Key indicators for museums” is planned as follow-up to ISO 18461"Information and documentation - International museum statistics". It aims at offering a broad selection of tested indicators for evaluating the performance of museums of all types and subjects.
The measures described in the Standard should be adequate for use in the internal management, for reporting to stakeholders and, with care, for comparison between museums of similar tasks and structure.
If the US votes to approve this as a new project, we are expected to name at least one expert who will work on this standard's development. If you would like to nominate someone, please include the name and contact information in your comments, we are now also required to provide particular information when adding Experts to working groups: The Expert’s full name and e-mail address, a salutation (Dr., Ms., etc.) as well as one of the following Stakeholder Categories:
Industry and Commerce
Government
Consumers
Labour
Academic and Research Bodies
Standards Application
Non-governmental Organization (NGO)
Please obtain that person's agreement in advance to work on this project.
We are also required to provide a justification statement for why we think this is or is not a worthwhile/useful project (depending on whether we vote yes or no). Please provide such a statement in the comments for your Affirmative or Negative vote. Consider whether you think this standard will be used in the U.S.
Your voting options are:
YES - approve this as a new project (comments required on justification statement; nominate expert(s) if you have one; comments on the working draft are encouraged but optional)
NO - do not approve this as a new project (comments required on why)
ABSTAIN from voting (comments optional)
Comments Due: 1/5/2016 ( i believe i sent this one out already) - If tou want to or know someone who would make a good member of this committee let me know - assuming the work item is approved
2) ANSI/NISO Z39.2-1994 (R2009) Information Interchange Format
This ballot is for the periodic review of the published standard ANSI/NISO Z39.2-1994 (R2009) Information Interchange Format. This standard was last reviewed and reaffirmed in 2009. A copy of the Z39.2 standard is available for download from the ballot webpage or the link in the announcement email.
In accordance with NISO procedures, all review ballots are accompanied by a recommendation from the responsible leadership committee. NISO's Content and Collection Management Topic Committee recommends a vote to REAFFIRM the standard.
As a member of the voting pool, you are required to vote on this ballot (one vote per organization). Please cast your ballot with one of the following voting options:
YES - Approve the Reaffirmation of the standard (comments optional)
NO - Do not approve the Reaffirmation of the standard (comments required)
Notes:
As described in its Foreword, ANSI/NISO Z39.2 is a standard critical to the implementation of automation for storing, transferring, and retrieving bibliographic information, but its original purpose was to define a format for the interchange of bibliographic records on magnetic tape. It now supports many types of data and may be used by different types of media but remains very specific in its application.
After full discussion on this topic, NISO's Content and Collection Management Topic Committee (CCM) believes that developments in the fields of linked data and related areas will warrant future standardization in information interchange to define similar and related functions to those described in Z39.2, but that current efforts are not yet sufficient to require a revision (or re-creation).
In addition, CCM believes that future standardization of activities in this area will require a "ground up" effort rather than the application of incremental changes to the Z39.2 standard, whose very specific definitions and format it believes could not be modified very well to fit the practical application of data sharing required by more modern libraries and information centers.
ISO 2709:2008 covers much of the same area of Z39.2. Reaffirmation would allow Z39.2 to remain available for any updates should ISO 2709 undergo any major revision.
Comments Due 1/6/2016 ( I assume no one has an objection to a YES vote on this)
3) New Work Item Proposal ISO /TR 28118 Quality assessment for national libraries
This is a TC46/SC8 new work item proposal to develop a new standard "Quality assessment for national libraries”.
The proposed Technical Report “Quality assessment for national libraries” shall cover two purposes:
- to revise and enlarge the collection of performance indicators in ISO/TR 28118 (2009)
“Performance indicators for national libraries”,
- to define and describe methods for assessing and measuring the impact of national libraries and their services.
If the US votes to approve this as a new project, we are expected to name at least one expert who will work on this standard's development. If you would like to nominate someone, please include the name and contact information in your comments, we are now also required to provide particular information when adding Experts to working groups: The Expert’s full name and e-mail address, a salutation (Dr., Ms., etc.) as well as one of the following Stakeholder Categories:
Industry and Commerce
Government
Consumers
Labour
Academic and Research Bodies
Standards Application
Non-governmental Organization (NGO)
Please obtain that person's agreement in advance to work on this project.
We are also required to provide a justification statement for why we think this is or is not a worthwhile/useful project (depending on whether we vote yes or no). Please provide such a statement in the comments for your Affirmative or Negative vote. Consider whether you think this standard will be used in the U.S.
Your voting options are:
YES - approve this as a new project (comments required on justification statement; nominate expert(s) if you have one; comments on the working draft are encouraged but optional)
NO - do not approve this as a new project (comments required on why)
ABSTAIN from voting (comments optional)
Comments Due 1/7/2016 - if you want to be on the committee or know someone who would make a good member let me know (assuming the work item is approved)
4) Approval of Proposed New Work Item: Recommended Practice for Tracking Link Origins in a Networked Information Environment
This ballot is to approve a proposed new work item on the development of a Recommended Practice for Tracking Link Origins in a Networked Information Environment
Members have thirty (30) days to vote on the work item. Your vote options are: Yes (approve the project), No (do not approve the project), or Abstain (from voting). Comments are required for No votes. If you would like to nominate someone to participate on the Working Group (if the project is approved), please provide a name and contact information in your comments. NISO Working Group participation is not limited to NISO members.
Libraries strive to improve the ways in which users access their collections. Gaining a definitive understanding of where a user began his or her library experience/search before ultimately arriving at the content licensed by a library is an important factor in determining the value of a platform, how to allocate resources, etc. Publishers, recognizing that users have a number of options for discovering content, supply metadata to various discovery and abstracting and indexing vendors in the hopes of increasing the discoverability and use of the content they create and to which their customers subscribe. Publishers who wish to measure the success of their metadata programs will often turn to web log analysis to track where their users are coming from. Where links pass through link resolver channels, thus “losing” the data relative to search origin. Critical data for publishers and libraries are skewed because the origin of the users request to retrieve the document appears to come from the provider of the link resolver.
This group will create a NISO Recommended Practice outlining the recommended approach to passing and using link origin information, a promotion and education plan, and one or more proof-of-concept services that can exchange the link origin information using the proposed approach.
The proposal was approved by the Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee on September 21, 2015, and is now being sent to the NISO voting membership for agreement to begin a new work project and to elicit expressions of interest in participating in the work.
In order for this item to be approved so that a Working Group can be formed to pursue this work, a minimum of 10% of NISO's Voting Members must express interest in this new work item.
Comments Due 1/8/2016 - if you want to be on the committee or know someone who would make a good member let me know (assuming the work item is approved) - Personal opinion id Im not sure this is needed but we can always vote NO on whatever they come up with
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Folks
in case you don't have anything to do over the holidays there are a few
votes coming up in Early January:
Relevant documents attached to this note
1) New Work Item Proposal ISO 18461 key indicators for museums
This is a TC46/SC8 new work item proposal to develop a new standard Key
indicators for museumsâ .
An International Standard âKey indicators for museumsâ is planned as
follow-up to ISO 18461"Information and documentation - International museum
statistics". It aims at offering a broad selection of tested indicators for
evaluating the performance of museums of all types and subjects.
The measures described in the Standard should be adequate for use in the
internal management, for reporting to stakeholders and, with care, for
comparison between museums of similar tasks and structure.
If the US votes to approve this as a new project, we are expected to name at
least one expert who will work on this standard's development. If you would
like to nominate someone, please include the name and contact information in
your comments, we are now also required to provide particular information
when adding Experts to working groups: The Expertâs full name and e-mail
address, a salutation (Dr., Ms., etc.) as well as one of the following
Stakeholder Categories:
Industry and Commerce
Government
Consumers
Labour
Academic and Research Bodies
Standards Application
Non-governmental Organization (NGO)
Please obtain that person's agreement in advance to work on this project.
We are also required to provide a justification statement for why we think
this is or is not a worthwhile/useful project (depending on whether we vote
yes or no). Please provide such a statement in the comments for your
Affirmative or Negative vote. Consider whether you think this standard will
be used in the U.S.
Your voting options are:
YES - approve this as a new project (comments required on justification
statement; nominate expert(s) if you have one; comments on the working draft
are encouraged but optional)
NO - do not approve this as a new project (comments required on why)
ABSTAIN from voting (comments optional)
Comments Due: 1/5/2016 ( i believe i sent this one out already) - If tou
want to or know someone who would make a good member of this committee let
me know - assuming the work item is approved
2) ANSI/NISO Z39.2-1994 (R2009) Information Interchange Format
This ballot is for the periodic review of the published standard ANSI/NISO
Z39.2-1994 (R2009) Information Interchange Format. This standard was last
reviewed and reaffirmed in 2009. A copy of the Z39.2 standard is available
for download from the ballot webpage or the link in the announcement email.
In accordance with NISO procedures, all review ballots are accompanied by a
recommendation from the responsible leadership committee. NISO's Content and
Collection Management Topic Committee recommends a vote to REAFFIRM the
standard.
As a member of the voting pool, you are required to vote on this ballot (one
vote per organization). Please cast your ballot with one of the following
voting options:
YES - Approve the Reaffirmation of the standard (comments optional)
NO - Do not approve the Reaffirmation of the standard (comments required)
Notes:
As described in its Foreword, ANSI/NISO Z39.2 is a standard critical to the
implementation of automation for storing, transferring, and retrieving
bibliographic information, but its original purpose was to define a format
for the interchange of bibliographic records on magnetic tape. It now
supports many types of data and may be used by different types of media but
remains very specific in its application.
After full discussion on this topic, NISO's Content and Collection
Management Topic Committee (CCM) believes that developments in the fields of
linked data and related areas will warrant future standardization in
information interchange to define similar and related functions to those
described in Z39.2, but that current efforts are not yet sufficient to
require a revision (or re-creation).
In addition, CCM believes that future standardization of activities in this
area will require a "ground up" effort rather than the application of
incremental changes to the Z39.2 standard, whose very specific definitions
and format it believes could not be modified very well to fit the practical
application of data sharing required by more modern libraries and
information centers.
ISO 2709:2008 covers much of the same area of Z39.2. Reaffirmation would
allow Z39.2 to remain available for any updates should ISO 2709 undergo any
major revision.
Comments Due 1/6/2016 ( I assume no one has an objection to a YES vote on
this)
3) New Work Item Proposal ISO /TR 28118 Quality assessment for national
libraries
This is a TC46/SC8 new work item proposal to develop a new standard "Quality
assessment for national librariesâ.
The proposed Technical Report âQuality assessment for national librariesâ
shall cover two purposes:
- to revise and enlarge the collection of performance indicators in ISO/TR
28118 (2009)
âPerformance indicators for national librariesâ,
- to define and describe methods for assessing and measuring the impact of
national libraries and their services.
If the US votes to approve this as a new project, we are expected to name at
least one expert who will work on this standard's development. If you would
like to nominate someone, please include the name and contact information in
your comments, we are now also required to provide particular information
when adding Experts to working groups: The Expertâs full name and e-mail
address, a salutation (Dr., Ms., etc.) as well as one of the following
Stakeholder Categories:
Industry and Commerce
Government
Consumers
Labour
Academic and Research Bodies
Standards Application
Non-governmental Organization (NGO)
Please obtain that person's agreement in advance to work on this project.
We are also required to provide a justification statement for why we think
this is or is not a worthwhile/useful project (depending on whether we vote
yes or no). Please provide such a statement in the comments for your
Affirmative or Negative vote. Consider whether you think this standard will
be used in the U.S.
Your voting options are:
YES - approve this as a new project (comments required on justification
statement; nominate expert(s) if you have one; comments on the working draft
are encouraged but optional)
NO - do not approve this as a new project (comments required on why)
ABSTAIN from voting (comments optional)
Comments Due 1/7/2016 - if you want to be on the committee or know someone
who would make a good member let me know (assuming the work item is
approved)
4) Approval of Proposed New Work Item: Recommended Practice for Tracking Link
Origins in a Networked Information Environment
This ballot is to approve a proposed new work item on the development of a
Recommended Practice for Tracking Link Origins in a Networked Information
Environment
Members have thirty (30) days to vote on the work item. Your vote options
are: Yes (approve the project), No (do not approve the project), or Abstain
(from voting). Comments are required for No votes. If you would like to
nominate someone to participate on the Working Group (if the project is
approved), please provide a name and contact information in your comments.
NISO Working Group participation is not limited to NISO members.
Libraries strive to improve the ways in which users access their
collections. Gaining a definitive understanding of where a user began his or
her library experience/search before ultimately arriving at the content
licensed by a library is an important factor in determining the value of a
platform, how to allocate resources, etc. Publishers, recognizing that users
have a number of options for discovering content, supply metadata to various
discovery and abstracting and indexing vendors in the hopes of increasing
the discoverability and use of the content they create and to which their
customers subscribe. Publishers who wish to measure the success of their
metadata programs will often turn to web log analysis to track where their
users are coming from. Where links pass through link resolver channels, thus
âlosingâ the data relative to search origin. Critical data for publishers
and libraries are skewed because the origin of the users request to retrieve
the document appears to come from the provider of the link resolver.
This group will create a NISO Recommended Practice outlining the recommended
approach to passing and using link origin information, a promotion and
education plan, and one or more proof-of-concept services that can exchange
the link origin information using the proposed approach.
The proposal was approved by the Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee on
September 21, 2015, and is now being sent to the NISO voting membership for
agreement to begin a new work project and to elicit expressions of interest
in participating in the work.
In order for this item to be approved so that a Working Group can be formed
to pursue this work, a minimum of 10% of NISO's Voting Members must express
interest in this new work item.
Comments Due 1/8/2016 - if you want to be on the committee or know someone
who would make a good member let me know (assuming the work item is
approved) - Personal opinion id Im not sure this is needed but we can always
vote NO on whatever they come up with
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