From niso-announce at niso.org Wed Mar 11 10:30:58 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:30:58 -0400 Subject: [SigLT-L] Mellon Grant Awarded to NISO to Explore Patron Privacy in Library and Publisher Systems Message-ID: <004a01d05c07$fe67b400$fb371c00$@org> The National Information Standards Organization has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a Consensus Framework to Support Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems. The grant will support a series of community discussions on how libraries, publishers, and information systems providers can build better privacy protection into their operations. The grant will also support creation of a draft framework to support patron privacy and subsequent publicity of the draft prior to its advancement for approval as a NISO Recommended Practice. "Awareness and interest in online privacy is growing rapidly following a number of significant data breaches that have occurred over the past year," explains Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. "Libraries have long been stalwart advocates for protection of patron privacy, but as the complexity of libraries' digital services has grown, the challenges of protecting that privacy have multiplied. Patron activity data is no longer held exclusively by the library, nor is it necessarily controlled by providers themselves. Compounding these problems is the tension created by the fact that real benefit can be achieved through the application of usage data as a tool for improving library services. How does one balance the opportunity to improve services or build new functionality that might improve patrons' experiences against the need to protect privacy?" "This delicate balance is one that NISO hopes to address through a process of engaging community consensus to develop a framework for addressing patron privacy in digital library systems," states Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director for Programs. "By bringing together thought leaders and engaged members of the publishing, library, and systems vendor communities, this project will provide a forum for perspectives to be shared and benefits and drawbacks of various approaches to be discussed from multiple angles. Involvement of the publishers and vendors is particularly important as they have been less engaged in privacy discussions and their implications." This project will consist of three phases. The first will be a pre-meeting discussion phase, which will consist of four virtual forums to discuss privacy of internal library systems, privacy of publisher systems, privacy of provider systems, and legal aspects influencing data sharing and policies. Each of the discussion sessions will be a three-hour web-based session designed to lay the groundwork for a productive in-person meeting at the conclusion of the American Library Association meeting in San Francisco, CA in June 2015. Following the in-person meeting, a Framework document will be completed detailing the privacy principles and recommendations agreed to by the participants, and then circulated for public comment and finalization. More information, including a version of the project proposal, is available on the NISO website at: www.niso.org/topics/tl/patron_privacy/ Contact: Nettie Lagace NISO Associate Director for Programs 301-654-2512 nlagace at niso.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From niso-announce at niso.org Mon Mar 16 12:23:37 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:23:37 -0400 Subject: [SigLT-L] NISO April 8 Webinar: Experimenting with BIBFRAME: Reports from Early Adopters Message-ID: *NISO Webinar: Experimenting with BIBFRAME: Reports from Early Adopters* *Date: *April 8, 2015 *Time: *1:00 ? 2:30 p.m. Eastern time *Event webpage:* http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/bibframe_adopters/ =============================================================== *ABOUT THE WEBINAR* In May 2011, the Library of Congress officially launched a new modeling initiative, Bibliographic Framework Initiative, as a linked data alternative to MARC. The Library then announced in November 2012 the proposed model, called BIBFRAME. Since then, the library world is moving from mainly theorizing about the BIBFRAME model to attempts to implement practical experimentation and testing. This experimentation is iterative, and continues to shape the model so that it?s stable enough and broadly acceptable enough for adoption. In this webinar, several institutions will share their progress in experimenting with BIBFRAME within their library system. They will discuss the existing, developing, and planned projects happening at their institutions. Challenges and opportunities in exploring and implementing BIBFRAME in their institutions will be discussed as well. Topics and speakers are: ? *Experimental Mode: The National Library of Medicine and experiences with BIBFRAME* ? *Nancy Fallgren*, Metadata Specialist Librarian, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) ? *Exploring BIBFRAME at a Small Academic Library* ? *Jeremy Nelson*, Metadata and Systems Librarian, Colorado College ? *Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L)* ? *Nancy Lorimer*, Head, Metadata Dept, Stanford University Libraries *REGISTRATION* Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on APRIL 8. Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are listed here:www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance . If you would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year?s webinars as part of membership, information on joining is listed here: www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/.) All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year. Visit the event webpage to register and for more information: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/bibframe_adopters/ Juliana Wood, Educational Programs Manager National Information Standards Organization (NISO) 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302 Baltimore, Maryland 21211 E: jwood at niso.org P: 301.654.2512 F: 410.685.5278 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From niso-announce at niso.org Wed Mar 18 12:00:14 2015 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:00:14 -0400 Subject: [SigLT-L] NISO Launches New Projects to Develop Standards for Bibliographic Vocabulary Exchange -- Call for participants Message-ID: <00bd01d06194$9fb29780$df17c680$@org> The voting members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved three new projects to develop standards to better support exchange and interoperability of bibliographic data. These projects were identified as high priorities in NISO's Bibliographic Roadmap pre-standards initiative, which was funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The goal of that project was to collectively determine the needs and requirements of the new bibliographic framework in a global, networked information environment and to develop community consensus for a roadmap of activities needed in this space. Following the issuance of the Bibliographic Roadmap final report in April 2014, NISO's Content and Collection Management (CCM) Topic Committee evaluated the recommendations and prepared a new work item proposal focusing on three of the top prioritized areas: Vocabulary policies on use and reuse, Vocabulary documentation, and Vocabulary preservation requirements. "Differences in vocabularies and the communities that manage them are often seen to be a hurdle to interoperability," explains Marti Heyman, Executive Director, Metadata Standards and Services at Cengage Learning, and Co-Chair of the CCM Topic Committee. "Different vocabularies also present challenges because quality control, maintenance strategies, and usage policies vary across the sets. Provenance of vocabulary data is critical to understand the management needs of aggregated data as it ages and changes." "One barrier to vocabulary exchange and interoperability is the lack of policies relevant to use and re-use of vocabularies by organizations other than the owner or maintainer of the vocabulary," states Betty Landesman, Head of Technical Services and Content Management at University of Baltimore, Langsdale Library, and Co-Chair of the CCM Topic Committee. "Documentation of vocabularies is also important for their users, and a minimum set of information to be documented should be defined. Many vocabularies are developed under a short-term funded project and the long-term sustainability and preservation of the vocabulary is endangered when the project funding ends. Pathways forward for managing and supporting such "orphan" vocabularies need to be defined." "We are looking for a diversity of participants in these projects beyond just libraries," said Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Program Director. "In addition to libraries involved in the bibliographic framework design and implementation, we are encouraging organizations such as library system vendors, abstracting and indexing (A&I) services, and developers or users of standardized vocabularies and metadata for describing resources to volunteer their experts to help develop these new standards." The approved proposal for the vocabulary projects and the final report from the Bibliographic Roadmap project are available on the NISO website at: www.niso.org/topics/tl/BibliographicRoadmap/. Anyone interested in participating on one of the vocabulary working groups should use the online contact form (www.niso.org/contact/) and indicate in which of the three projects you are interested. Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: