[Asis-standards] NISO votes

[Mark Needleman]

Folks

I just cast the following votes:

REAFFIRM on Review of ANSI/NISO Z39.87-2006 (R2011) Data Dictionary - Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images

REAFFIRM on Review of ANSI/NISO Z39.43-1993 (R2011) Standard Address Number (SAN) for the Publishing Industry

WITHDRAW with comments on Review of / Withdraw ANSI/NISO Z39.84-2005 (R2010) Syntax for the Digital Object Identifier

Comments:


ASIST concurs with the comments of NLM and NFAIS about making sure that ISO standards are available and affordable and notes that NISO continues to maintain Z39.50 as a US National  Standard even though there is an equivalent ISO version ISO3950 - If we recall correctly one of the major reasons for doing this was concern over the availability and affordability of ISO standards. With Z39.50 there was also the concern with the slow pace and cumbersome process of making changes to ISO standards and felt having that flexibility justified the maintenance of a US standard

Ill be sending out a few more upcoming votes soon

Mark
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   Folks
   I just cast the following votes:
   REAFFIRM  on Review of ANSI/NISO Z39.87-2006 (R2011) Data Dictionary -
   Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images
   REAFFIRM on Review of ANSI/NISO Z39.43-1993 (R2011) Standard Address Number
   (SAN) for the Publishing Industry
   WITHDRAW with comments on Review of / Withdraw ANSI/NISO Z39.84-2005 (R2010)
   Syntax for the Digital Object Identifier
   Comments:
   ASIST concurs with the comments of NLM and NFAIS about making sure that ISO
   standards are available and affordable and notes that NISO continues to
   maintain  Z39.50  as  a  US National  Standard even though there is an
   equivalent ISO version ISO3950 - If we recall correctly one of the major
   reasons for doing this was concern over the availability and affordability
   of ISO standards. With Z39.50 there was also the concern with the slow pace
   and cumbersome process of making changes to ISO standards and felt having
   that flexibility justified the maintenance of a US standard
   Ill be sending out a few more upcoming votes soon
   Mark