From mneedlem at ufl.edu Wed Dec 4 10:03:38 2013 From: mneedlem at ufl.edu (Mark Needleman-UF) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 10:03:38 -0500 Subject: [Asis-standards] FW: NISO Newsline December 2013 In-Reply-To: <5a1a4bbcc2101b7b912ba9020016c67d@verizon.net> References: <5a1a4bbcc2101b7b912ba9020016c67d@verizon.net> Message-ID: <00d801cef102$115b0750$341115f0$@ufl.edu> FYI mark From: newsline at list.niso.org [mailto:newsline at list.niso.org] On Behalf Of Cynthia Hodgson Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 9:38 AM To: newsline at list.niso.org Subject: NISO Newsline December 2013 Read this issue online at: http://www.niso.org/publications/newsline/2013/newslinedec2013.html NISO: How the information world connects NISO Home NISO Newsline Archives News and Events Specs and Standards NISO Publications New LSA Members Headshot of NISO Managing Director, Todd Carpenter December 2013 Last summer, I started running with the modest goal of just getting out the door every day. One thing I've noticed is that no matter how long or short your run, if you choose to, you can kick a bit harder-at least for a short while-for a burst of speed, say near the finish line to place in a race, for a better time, or even just to see if you can. This is often one way of looking at the end of the year-a sprint to the finish line-and in some ways that is what this December is shaping up to be at NISO. NISO is wrapping up another incredibly successful year. In the closing weeks of 2013, we are powering through a number of loose ends to end on a very high note. The Mellon Foundation-funded NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Project , with which we began the year, is winding up. Tomorrow we will be hosting our final virtual meeting about the initiative, with an open discussion about paths forward. Through the open meeting last spring, several in-person discussions, and an online idea ranking site , we have narrowed down the dozens of potential ideas to three or four identified as the most pressing to pursue. During tomorrow's virtual meeting we will discuss these ideas and what can be accomplished as next steps. It's not too late to RSVP or to contribute your thoughts or comments on the project ideas . The final report of the project will be distributed in early 2014. Another project that is nearing completion is the Sloan Foundation-funded partnership with the Open Archives Initiative to develop a standard on Resource Synchronization . The beta specification has been available for testing and feedback, and we expect a final American National Standard to be published in early 2014. Training resources on the new specification are already available and more recordings will be posted in December including a webinar recording from earlier this week and a tutorial that took place at the LITA Forum in St. Louis. Nettie Lagace and I will also be talking about this project along with the Open Access Metadata and Indicators initiative at the CNI meeting in Washington next week. Finally, NISO is moving quickly forward with the first phase of the Alternative Assessment Metrics initiative , another project supported by a grant from the Sloan Foundation. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 11 in Washington, DC following the CNI meeting. While the in-person meeting room slots are filled, there is plenty of "virtual space" available for those who want to livestream and there's no registration fee. Please RSVP if you're interested to ensure you receive access instructions. A final in-person meeting will take place on Thursday, January 23, 2014 in Philadelphia, prior to the start of the ALA Midwinter Conference . There is still space to attend that meeting in-person and, of course, virtually. Registration for that free meeting is available now. As we round out this busy year and move quickly into 2014, I would like to take a moment to thank the many members of our community who make all of NISO's work possible. In addition to the terrific staff at NISO, we owe our gratitude to the hundreds of volunteers who contribute so much of their time, expertise, and effort to help make NISO as successful an organization as we have been. Nothing could have been accomplished without their many meaningful contributions. Finally, I'd like to personally thank all of the organizations that support NISO financially through their memberships, which ensures our work can continue. Each of you adds something important to the process of standards development, be that formal participation or balloting that shape the work we do, driving standards adoption at your institutions and encouraging your suppliers to comply with standards, or even simply by educating yourselves about what we do, how, and why. Thank you so much for supporting NISO and I wish you all the best this holiday season and into the New Year. With kindest regards, Todd Carpenter's Signature Todd Carpenter Executive Director NOTE: January NISO Newsline will be distributed on January 8 due to the New Year's Day holiday. NISO Reports . NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol Standing Committee Replaces Former Maintenance Agency . Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project Second In-person Meeting and Livestream . December Webinar: Library Linked Data: From Vision to Reality . 2014 NISO Education Events - Subscription Packages Available . New on the NISO Website New Specs & Standards . ISO 3166, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions . ISO/TR 14873:2013, Information and documentation - Statistics and quality issues for web archiving . ISO/IEC JTC 1 Working Group Developing International Standard for Electronic Discovery [for court proceedings] . ISO/IEC 13250-3:2013, Information technology - Topic Maps - Part 3: XML syntax . ISO/IEC 2382-36:2013, Information technology - Vocabulary - Part 36: Learning, education and training Media Stories . Libraries Applaud Dismissal of Google Book Search Case . E-book Optimism and Lingering Concerns . The Natural Limits of Gold Open Access . Libraries in the Time of MOOCs . Despite Differences, University Libraries and Presses Partner More Often NISO Reports NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol Standing Committee Replaces Former Maintenance Agency The maintenance agency for the two-part American National Standard on the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP), ANSI/NISO Z39.83, has been replaced with a Standing Committee for ongoing maintenance of the standard. NCIP addresses the need for interoperability among disparate circulation, interlibrary loan, consortial borrowing, and self-service applications by standardizing the exchange of messages between and among computer-based applications. The NCIP protocol is widely supported in integrated library systems (ILS) and resource sharing software. Maintenance agencies were typically established for certain types of information system standards where the community requires implementation support and the tracking and resolution of problem reports. In 2009, NISO moved the NCIP standard to continuous maintenance, which allows for regular submittal and review of proposed changes and more frequent updating of the standard. The NCIP Implementers Group was changed at that time to a Standing Committee to oversee the continuous maintenance process. In 2013 EnvisionWare, who had been the Maintenance Agency for the standard, decided to step down from that role and the NCIP Standing Committee agreed to take over those responsibilities. Staff at EnvisionWare are to be commended for the excellent oversight they provided for the NCIP standard for many years. The NCIP standard and the supporting tools and documentation are freely available at: www.ncip.info . Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project Second In-person Meeting and Livestream NISO will be providing a free livestream for the second meeting of the Altmetrics project on December 11 from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET). (In-person registration is closed; there are no more seats available.) The agenda of this one-day meeting will include a short opening keynote on the topic of assessment, lightning talks on related projects, brainstorming for identification of topics for discussion, and prioritizing of proposed work items. This is the second meeting in the first phase of the project to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics in the community. The project is funded through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Additional information on the December meeting, including recordings, documents, and other output from the first meeting held in October 2013 are available from the project webpage . Virtual attendees need to RSVP to ensure you are sent the access instructions for the event. December Webinar: Library Linked Data: From Vision to Reality The library and cultural institution communities have generally accepted the vision of moving to a Linked Data environment that will align and integrate their resources with those of the greater Semantic Web. But moving from vision to implementation is not easy or well understood. A number of institutions have begun the needed infrastructure and tools development with pilot projects to provide structured data in support of discovery and navigation services for their collections and resources. Join NISO for the December 11 webinar, Library Linked Data: From Vision to Reality, where speakers will highlight actual Linked Data projects within their institutions-from envisioning the model to implementation and lessons learned-and present their thoughts on how linked data benefits research, scholarly communications, and publishing. Topics and speakers are: . Historypin: A Global Community Collaborating around History - Jon Voss, Strategic Partnerships Director, We Are What We Do . The Linked Jazz Project: Revealing the Relationships of the Jazz Community - Matt Miller, Front End Developer, NYPL Labs at the New York Public Library . Linked Data Demystified: The University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV) Linked Data Project - Cory Lampert, Head, Digital Collections, and Silvia Southwick, Digital Collections Metadata Librarian, UNLV University Libraries Visit the event webpage to register and for more information. 2014 NISO Education Events - Subscription Packages Available NISO is offering several subscription packages for the 2014 education events that will provide substantial discounts for attending multiple events. The available packages are: . Buy 9 NISO Webinars and Get 5 Free. Get all fourteen 2014 NISO webinars at more than a 35% discount. . Buy 5 NISO Webinars and Get 4 Free. You pick which nine NISO webinars you want. NISO and NASIG members and students receive a discounted subscription rate to NISO webinars. For more information and to register for one of the packages, visit the 2014 NISO Webinars webpage . NISO Library Standards Alliance members get one free connection to all 14 NISO webinars as part of their membership. Visit the NISO members webpage to see if your library is already a member. For information on joining, contact the NISO office at nisohq at niso.org. NISO is also offering, for the first time, a subscription package for the 2014 Virtual Conferences: . Buy 4 NISO Virtual Conferences, Get 2 Free. Get all six of the Virtual Conferences for 1/3 off. And for NISO members only (voting and LSA), there is a limited time offer from now through February 18, 2014: . Buy 3 NISO Virtual Conferences, Get 3 Free. Get all six of the Virtual Conferences for half off. For more information and to register for the virtual conferences package, visit the 2014 Virtual Conferences webpage . For information on all 2014 NISO education events, visit the 2014 NISO events webpage . New on the NISO Website . Presentation slides from November 13 webinar New Perspectives on Assessment How Altmetrics Measure Scholarly Impact . Audio recording from November 18 Open Discovery Initiative open teleconference . Presentation slides from November 20 virtual conference Web-Scale Discovery Services: Transforming Access to Library Resources . Slides and recording from December 3 ResourceSync Training Webinar . Presentation slides from Uncork Your Licenses! How ONIX-PL Can Help License Data Flow, co-presented by Todd Carpenter (NISO), Selden Lamoureux and Ashley Bass (Serials Solutions/Proquest) at the 2013 Charleston Conference on November 8 . SERU Registry Updates : New Content Providers (Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc./dba DRAM); New Libraries/Consortia (Truman State University, University of North Dakota) New Specs & Standards ISO 3166, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions Minor revisions to all three parts of the Country Code standard were published. The third edition of Part 1: Country codes comprises a consolidation of all changes agreed by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (MA), and published in the ISO 3166-1 Newsletter VI-1 to VI-14 . It also more clearly defines the alpha-2 and alpha-3 sets of codes to distinguish them from the sets of code elements available to users. The third edition of Part 2: Country subdivision code comprises a consolidation of all changes published in the ISO 3166-2 Newsletter II-1 to II- 3 . The second edition of Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries comprises a consolidation of all newly obsoleted codes as published in the ISO 3166-3 Newsletters I-1 to I-6 . ISO/TR 14873:2013, Information and documentation - Statistics and quality issues for web archiving This new ISO standard from TC46/SC8 defines statistics, terms, and quality criteria for Web archiving. It considers the needs and practices across a wide range of organizations such as libraries, archives, museums, research centers, and heritage foundations. The published terminology reflects the wide range of interests and expertise of the potential audiences, striking a balance between computer science, management, and librarianship. ISO/IEC JTC 1 Working Group Developing International Standard for Electronic Discovery [for court proceedings] The International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1, Information Technology, Subcommittee (SC) 27, IT Security techniques, Working Group (WG) 4, Security controls and services, has begun work on an International Standard for electronic discovery. The new standard, ISO/IEC 27050, Information technology - Security techniques - Electronic discovery, reflects the growing role that electronically stored data (ESI) plays in modern society throughout the world. In the U.S. this standard could be relevant to both civil and criminal proceedings, as well as patent disputes, U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and other related areas. While still in an early stage, the multi-part standard is expected to address key aspects of electronic discovery in its initial four parts: Part 1: Overview and concepts; Part 2: Guidance for governance and management of electronic discovery; Part 3: Code of Practice for electronic discovery; Part 4: ICT readiness for electronic discovery. [This committee has a liaison with ISO TC46/SC11 so the expectation is that members of TC46/SC11 will be able to comment on drafts.] ISO/IEC 13250-3:2013, Information technology - Topic Maps - Part 3: XML syntax Second edition of the standard that defines an XML-based interchange syntax for Topic Maps, which can be used to interchange instances of the data model defined in ISO/IEC 13250-2. The syntax is defined with a RELAX-NG schema, and more precision is provided through the mapping to the data model, which also defines the interpretation of the syntax. ISO/IEC 2382-36:2013, Information technology - Vocabulary - Part 36: Learning, education and training Second edition of the standard to facilitate international communication in information technology for learning, education, and training. It presents terms and definitions of selected relevant concepts and identifies relationships among the entries. Media Stories Libraries Applaud Dismissal of Google Book Search Case Library Copyright Alliance Press Release, November 14, 2013 Following the court's dismissal of Authors Guild v. Google, a case that was filed almost eight years ago, the Library Copyright Alliance-comprised of the American Library Association, the Association of College & Research Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries-issued a press release welcoming the judge's decision. Judge Chin referred to an earlier amicus brief filed by the Library Copyright Alliance in explaining his decision. "ALA applauds the decision to dismiss the long running Google Books case," said Barbara Stripling, president of the American Library Association. "This ruling furthers the purpose of copyright by recognizing that Google's Book search is a transformative fair use that advances research and learning." Carol Pitts Diedrichs, president of the Association of Research Libraries, indicated that the Google Books decision further supported the decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust to allow mass digitization for purposes of search, preservation, and access for the print-disabled. An appeal is still pending in the HathiTrust case, but the Google decision suggests that the appeal will not be successful. (Link to Web Source ) NISO Note: Other views and reports on the Google Book Case were published by ARL , Library Journal , Publishers Weekly , Information Today , Scholarly Kitchen , and the Authors Guild who say they plan to appeal. ALA and ARL are NISO voting members. E-book Optimism and Lingering Concerns PW News/Check it Out, Nov 08, 2013; by Mike Kelley Although more publishers like Macmillan and Penguin are making their e-books available for library lending, the current model is not sustainable. The author talked with a number of librarians about e-books. Among their concerns were: . High prices . Lack of options for simultaneous use . Delay in availability of e-books following publication of the print version . Inadequate selection tools for collection development . Library staff who are not adept with all the technology changes and have difficulty helping users . DRM limitations that add complications and troubleshooting issues . Variety of formats, often tied to specific devices New, low-fee e-book streaming services offered directly to users are not expected to have a large impact on libraries, as many library users are looking for free services. But this could change in the next few years, just as video and music have been changed by the Internet. Librarians are frustrated that their issues with e- books are not being addressed more quickly. (Link to Web Source ) NISO Note: Cengage Gale and Penguin Random House, mentioned in this article, are NISO voting members. The Natural Limits of Gold Open Access The Scholarly Kitchen, Nov 19, 2013; by Joseph Esposito Just as traditional publishing has its limits, so does gold open access. The main limitation in traditional publishing is the marketplace economy, which means that scholarly research without a market often does not get published. Editorial review is as much about market gatekeeping as it is about quality. Green Open Access, where research is self-archived by authors in publicly-accessible repositories, appears to be separate from marketplace realities, but is actually subsidized by those same works being published and purchased through traditional publishing. Gold Open Access is a true replacement of traditional publishing, but one where the author pays, rather than the user. So from the marketplace perspective, the customer is the author, not the reader. This gives Gold OA the potential to become "vanity publishing." The obvious solution to that situation is that poor articles won't be read or cited. However, it's not always easy to tell what to ignore since many OA publications don't carry the "brand" respect of long-time traditional journals. While article-level metrics might help in this area, a better protection is the use of some level of peer review for OA journals. The author-pay model of Gold OA creates another limitation of richer disciplines, such as life sciences, having more funds to publish this way than disciplines such as humanities. Scientific disciplines also lend themselves to shorter research articles that fit well with a journal OA model, while humanities disciplines often publish in monograph lengths, which is too costly for the Gold OA approach. Some new innovations will be needed before Gold OA can be effectively applied to long-form scholarship. For Gold OA publishers to reduce their costs to a level that makes it affordable to publishers, they've had to make changes such as editorial reviews only for methodological rigor and elimination of copyediting. The latter is a particular disadvantage to authors not fluent in English. These limitations of Gold OA require further discussion and experimentation in approaches to overcome them. (Link to Web Source ) NISO Note: NISO voting members Elsevier and PLOS are mentioned in this article. Libraries in the Time of MOOCs EDUCAUSE Review Online, November 4, 2013; by Curtis Kendrick The advent of massive open online courses (MOOCs) offers librarians opportunities for new roles. "At a session of the recent OCLC conference, MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge? speakers emphasized that librarians are increasingly required to guide faculty on the proper scope of the fair-use provision with respect to copyrighted materials in a MOOC." MOOC participation continues to grow with a number of universities starting to offer credit for courses taken this way. If a student is taking a MOOC course for credit, libraries may be asked to provide some level of access to their licensed electronic resources, which most are not currently in a position to do both for technological and legal reasons. An entirely new licensing model will be required for such remote and international access to resources. One option would be to offer a "premium" service for a fee to students who wish to use the library's resources. This might include search access with additional per item charges for full-text downloads. Authentication credentials might need to be included with the MOOC sign-up for such students, requiring this set of students to be segregated from the larger MOOC population. An appropriate authentication scheme would allow libraries to track MOOC student usage separately from the main student population, which will likely be important for reporting to vendors and ensuring license compliance. Content producers may find this premium opt-in service can bring them additional revenues. MOOCs are still evolving and universities are still experimenting with how or even whether to utilize them. "[T]he type of services that [libraries] will offer to help deliver and create MOOCs will be defined by how this form of online education develops on our campuses. If our institution is a major producer of these courses, then library support might involve the production or provision of ancillary materials or the rights clearance of course materials. If, on the other hand, the institution is primarily a consumer of online education, the library might provide meet-up space, organize course materials, or otherwise support the learning experience." Librarians should join or lead teams that are discussing the use of MOOCs at their institutions, and take advantage of opportunities this may bring for libraries to show additional value to their organization. [Note: An overview of the MOOC environment, marketplace, major vendors, and pros and cons is discussed in the article but not summarized in this abstract, which focused on the library involvement.] (Link to Web Source ) NISO Note: NISO Library Standards Alliance members whose parent institutions are mentioned in this article include: Stanford University Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries, Harvard University Library, University of Tennessee of Knoxville Libraries, University of California Irvine Libraries, Georgia Institute of Technology Libraries, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries, and Syracuse University Library. OCLC, also mentioned, is a NISO voting member. Despite Differences, University Libraries and Presses Partner More Often Library Journal, November 5, 2013; by Ian Chant The Purdue University Press began reporting to the library administration in 2009 and their collaborative work provides a model for others in academic publishing to follow. Not only did the move help the press financially, but it has resulted in new ways of managing digital and supplementary content, such as datasets. A partnership with the library can bring the university press more into the mainstream of the university and facilitate greater collaboration with faculty and especially students. Because funding models for presses and libraries are quite different, both sides have a learning curve in understanding the other. Publishers outside the university are also pursuing library partnerships. BioOne launched the online, open access journal Elementa, built on the PLOS digital platform, in partnership with libraries from Dartmouth, University of Michigan, University of Washington, University of Colorado Boulder, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Some universities, such as Amherst University, are creating new presses from within the library, often focused on open access and institutional repositories. Such new presses are often all electronic or use a print-on-demand publisher. (Link to Web Source ) NISO Note: BioOne, Dartmouth College Library, Georgia Institute of Technology Libraries, PLOS, Purdue University Libraries, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries, and University of Michigan Library are NISO members. 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Newsline Archive > Scholarly Kitchen Podcast December PESC teleconference NISO @ ALA Midwinter Welcome SSRN Calendar December 9 Protocol for Exchanging Serial Content NISO Open Teleconference December 11 Library Linked Data: From Vision to Reality NISO Webinar January 8 >From Device to Device: Adaptive Interfaces for Content NISO Webinar January 23 NISO Altmetrics Initiative: 3rd In-person Meeting (and livestream) 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Philadelphia, PA January 26 NISO Annual Meeting and Standards Update ALA Midwinter Philadelphia, PA Other Events of Interest December 9-10 CNI Fall Meeting Washington, D.C. January 9-12 2014 Modern Language Association Annual Convention Chicago, IL January 24-29 ALA Midwinter Conference Philadelphia, PA Events & Education Talk About Innovation! TEDx @Your Library at Midwinter Meeting Web Scale Discovery Services Examined in New American Libraries Live Episode Linked Data Webinar Series Available Green, Pauley, Sedaris and Sinek Among All-Stars Coming to PLA 2014 Conference First Module in ASCLA's AccessAbility Academy Now Available LibQUAL+ Rl to Launch Improvements in 2014 - Register Now Register Now for BISG's Making Information Pay for Higher Education Information Resources A LITA Guide to Data Management for Libraries Planning Our Future Libraries: Blueprints for 2025 Experts Offer Best Practices for Institutional Repositories ALCTS Publication Takes a Fresh Look at Microforms New Guide for Physics Selectors from ALCTS Collection Management Section 2013 Revision of RDA: Resource Description and Access Now Available in Print Edition Measuring, Analyzing and Improving Library Services Preservation Activities Survey Released Reinventing the Library for Online Education New Digital Journal eContent Quarterly Launches ARL Statistics 2011-2012 Published ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2011-2012 Published ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2011-2012 Published How Are Digital Collections Being Sustained? New Evidence-Based Report and Case Studies from ARL and Ithaka S+R Provide Answers ARL Annual Salary Survey 2012-2013 Reports Data on 13,900 Staff in ARL Libraries ARL Membership Meeting & Fall Forum 2013 Slides Online BSIG Field Guide to Fixed Layout for E-Books Version 1.1 Now Available as a Free Download CLIR Publishes Research Data Management: Principles, Practices, and Prospects How Are Digital Collections Being Sustained? New Evidence-Based Report and Case Studies from ARL and Ithaka S+R Provide Answers "Future Focused: Trends Impacting Library Services - the Minitex Perspective" Describing Archives: A Content Standard Now Available in Three Formats Awards & Grants ALA launches Policy Revolution! Initiative for Libraries Wiley Wins IT Project Team of the Year at the UK IT Industry Awards 2013 National Archives Awards $2.3 Million in Grants for Historical Records Projects OCLC Named Among 'Best Places to Work' in Central Ohio IMLS Awards Grants to OCLC to Support National Continuing Education Programs for Libraries Organization Announcements Spotlight on BISG New Mission Statement and Next Steps ProQuest Appoints John Law to Lead Enterprise Product Strategy Goldman Sachs to Make Minority Investment in ProQuest Roger Brisson joins Ex Libris as Strategy Director Europe Microsoft Research's Gupta Named Founding Member of Global Learning Council Swets appoints Ted van Dongen as Chief Technology Officer Swets appoints Teri Hawksworth as Global Head of Sales Policy & Legislation Libraries Applaud Dismissal of Google Book Search Case Librarians React Against Harvard Publishing's Latest Restrictions ALA urges Swift Action on E-rate Reforms American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom Defends Free Access to Information ALA Welcomes USA Freedom Act Library Copyright Alliance Comments on Commerce Department Green Paper Libraries Applaud Dismissal of Google Book Search Case Broad Coalition Urges Senate to Reauthorize COMPETES Act IEEE Issues Statement on Appropriate Use of Bibliometric Indicators in Evaluation of Scientific Publications Digital 'Not Just Our Future, It Is Our Present' Says RIAA In Comments To Administration Product & Project Announcements APA Journals Expansion Strategy APA PsycNET Mobile App Current Book Titles Available Electronically from the American Psychological Association ATLA Welcomes Three Titles to ATLASerials R (ATLASR) 11.07.2013 New Features in ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index R (ATLA CPLIR) Serials Solutions to Index HBO Kennisbank in the Summon Service IHS Jane's Databases to be Indexed in the Summon Service Serials Solutions R IntotaT Assessment Now Available ProQuest Research Companion Simplifies Research and Builds Information Literacy ProQuest Syndetic Solutions T Adds Facebook Access ProQuest Automates ebrary and EBL Holdings In Its Summon and 360 Services OCLC and ProQuest Work Together to Automate E-Book Collection Management Cengage Learning Partners with Southwestern College Professional Studies to Provide and Develop Online Courses and Curriculum National Electrical Code eBooks Available Through Cengage Learning Copyright Clearance Center Adds 16 Publishers to Get It Now CrossRef Members Add Over a Quarter Million CrossMark records; Researchers Click on CrossMark Logos 50K Times per Month EBSCO Introduces RIPM e-Library of Music Periodicals T - Offering Rare Collection of Full-Text Music Journals Content from Japan Medical Abstracts Society Being Loaded into EBSCO Discovery Service T eBook History Collection Now Available from EBSCO Information Services EnvisionWare Expands Customer Service Locations Ex Libris and Elsevier Collaborate to Harness Journal Metrics for Primo Relevance Ranking 500,000 HTML Documents Now Available in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library Now Available in the iTunes Store: IEEE Xplore Image Search iPad App Innovative and Leading Knowledge Solutions Provider Naseej Sign Exclusive Agreement to Bring Innovative Products to the Arab World Innovative Expands Encore Social Discovery with ChiliFresh Partnership Colorado Library Consortium and Innovative Partnering to Offer SkyRiver Cataloging to Colorado Libraries Portico E-Journal Service Reaches Historic Milestone American College of Emergency Physicians to Publish with Wiley Wiley to Provide Emergency Access to Medical Literature in Support of Typhoon Haiyan Relief Efforts Library of Congress Collaborates on Digital Learning Day 2014 Congress.gov Beta Legislative Site Readies for its Starring Role Microsoft Unveils State-of-the-Art Cybercrime Center U.S. National Archives Releases 11,000 Newly Declassified Documents Relating to Berlin, 1962-1986 Federal Register Publishes 2013 The United States Government Manual NLM Releases Enhancements to Its "Digital Collections" Repository National Library of Medicine Launches Emergency Access Initiative, Granting Free Access to Books and Journals for Those Responding to Typhoon Haiyan WorldCat Metadata API Powers New Enhancements in latest MarcEdit Release WorldShare ILL integrates Article Exchange Random House LLC Launches Pinterest Top Pins on Select Sites; 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Subscribe to NISO Newsline Unsubscribe from NISO Newsline From mneedlem at ufl.edu Wed Dec 4 10:39:46 2013 From: mneedlem at ufl.edu (Mark Needleman-UF) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 10:39:46 -0500 Subject: [Asis-standards] FW: [NISO tc46ballots] Call for chair for ISO TC 46 working group on Conversion of written languages - deadline December 31, 2013 In-Reply-To: <004501cef105$f818abe0$e84a03a0$@net> References: <004501cef105$f818abe0$e84a03a0$@net> Message-ID: <00f901cef107$0fc580f0$2f5082d0$@ufl.edu> If anyone is interested or knows someone who might be let me know mark From: tc46ballots at list.niso.org [mailto:tc46ballots at list.niso.org] On Behalf Of Cynthia Hodgson Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 10:32 AM To: tc46ballots at list.niso.org Subject: [NISO tc46ballots] Call for chair for ISO TC 46 working group on Conversion of written languages - deadline December 31, 2013 The ISO TC46 Secretary has issued a call for a convenor (chairperson) for WG3, on Conversion of Written Languages. This group is responsible for the standards listed below related to transliteration or romanization of various languages. These standards are all published, but undergo systematic reviews every five years and are sometimes in need of revision. If such a revision were agreed to, the convenor would be responsible for managing the working group that develops the revision. (Depending on the standard in question, the particular working group members may be different due to needed language expertise.) Working groups typically do their work via conference calls and email. Occasionally they meet during the TC46 Plenary Meeting Week, but the decision on whether to hold an in-person meeting is up to the convenor and WG members. If anyone is interested in applying to be the convenor for this Working Group (or knows of someone else who would like to apply), please e-mail me no later than December 31, 2014. Standards this Working Group manages: . ISO 9:1995 (Ed. 2) -- Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages . ISO 233:1984 (Ed. 1) -- Documentation -- Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters . ISO 233-2:1993 (Ed. 1) - Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Arabic language -- Simplified transliteration . ISO 233-3:1999 (Ed. 1) - Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters -- Part 3: Persian language -- Simplified transliteration . ISO 259:1984 (Ed.) -- Documentation -- Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters . ISO 9984:1996 (Ed. 1) -- Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Georgian characters into Latin characters . ISO 9985:1996 (Ed. 1) -- Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Armenian characters into Latin characters . ISO 11940:1998 (Ed. 1) -- Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Thai . ISO 11940-2:2007 (Ed. 1) -- Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Thai characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Simplified transcription of Thai language . ISO/TR 11941:1996 (Ed. 1) -- Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Korean script into Latin characters . ISO 15919:2001 (Ed. 1) -- Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters . ISO/CD 7098 (1991) - Information and documentation -- Romanization of Chinese [Currently undergoing revision; a CD has been balloted and the DIS document has to be submitted to Secretariat for ballot before May 2014] Regards, Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization hodgsonca at verizon.net 301-654-2512 From mneedlem at ufl.edu Sun Dec 22 07:54:24 2013 From: mneedlem at ufl.edu (Mark Needleman) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 07:54:24 -0500 Subject: [Asis-standards] ISO vote Message-ID: <85925436-6469-4C71-9881-612B7D7EC46F@ufl.edu> Folks hearing no comments or objections I just cast a YES vote on ISO/DIS 21127, Information and documentation ? A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information if anyone has any objections or comments we have until tomorrow 12/23 to submit them and/or change our vote Mark From thornbug at oclc.org Sun Dec 22 10:10:04 2013 From: thornbug at oclc.org (Thornburg,Gail) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:10:04 +0000 Subject: [Asis-standards] ISO vote In-Reply-To: <85925436-6469-4C71-9881-612B7D7EC46F@ufl.edu> References: <85925436-6469-4C71-9881-612B7D7EC46F@ufl.edu> Message-ID: <980b59253b2943eea2fa7f2ecb14b96d@BLUPR06MB194.namprd06.prod.outlook.com> I'm ok with this, sorry I did not respond earlier ________________________________________ From: Asis-standards on behalf of Mark Needleman Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 7:54 AM To: ASIST Standards Committee Subject: [Asis-standards] ISO vote Folks hearing no comments or objections I just cast a YES vote on ISO/DIS 21127, Information and documentation ? A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information if anyone has any objections or comments we have until tomorrow 12/23 to submit them and/or change our vote Mark From mneedlem at ufl.edu Mon Dec 23 19:02:25 2013 From: mneedlem at ufl.edu (Mark Needleman) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 19:02:25 -0500 Subject: [Asis-standards] New ISO votes Message-ID: <35C71B5C-CBFE-4BF2-802A-B0858582E336@ufl.edu> 2 new ISO standards (actually 1 standard and 1 new work item) are up for a vote in mid January 1) ISO/DIS 17316, Information and documentation ? International standard link identifier (ISLI) This International Standard specifies an identifier of links between entities in the field of information and documentation. These entities may be media resources, people or more abstract items such as times or places. The ISLI system identifies links between entities that are related to each other so that, for instance, they can be rendered simultaneously. It does this by registering each identifier with information (metadata) that specifies the link. The ISLI does not change the content, ownership, right of access or existing identification of these entities. If this draft is approved by more than 2/3 of the international members, it can 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. 2) New Work Item Proposal TC46/ SC8/N429, Information and documentation - International archives statistics This is a new work item proposal from TC46/SC8 to develop a new standard for Information and documentation - International archives statistics. The proposed standard for archive statistics aims at standardizing the terminology, definitions, and data collection for all types of resources that archives collect and all services that they offer. A special issue of the proposed International Standard should be the growing sector of electronic services offered by archives (e.g. digitized finding aids and collections). Included with this ballot are two documents: 1) the new work item proposal; 2) the purpose and justification. These documents are available for download from the ballot webpage and the links 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". 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. I have attached the relevant documents to this message. 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