From MNeedleman at flvc.org Tue Dec 1 14:26:58 2015 From: MNeedleman at flvc.org (Mark Needleman) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 19:26:58 +0000 Subject: [Asis-standards] ISO votes Message-ID: Folks I just cast the following 2 votes Since there was no comment on this I voted to agree with NFAIS Systematic Review for ISO 9230:2007 (vers 2) Information and documentation - Determination of price indexes for print and electronic media purchased by librarian - WITHDRAW Commment: ASIST agrees with the comment submitted by NFAIS The comments I received indicated we should confirm this - but if anyone disagrees we have until 12/4 to change our vote Systematic Review for Notification of ISO 15706-2:2007 (vers 2) Information and documentation - International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) - Part 2; Version Identifier - CONFIRM There are a couple more standards Ill be sending out a note about soon mark -------------- next part -------------- Folks I just cast the following 2 votes Since there was no comment on this I voted to agree with NFAIS Systematic Review for ISO 9230:2007 (vers 2) Information and documentation - Determination of price indexes for print and electronic media purchased by librarian ??? WITHDRAW Commment: ASIST agrees with the comment submitted by NFAIS The comments I received indicated we should confirm this ??? but if anyone disagrees we have until 12/4 to change our vote Systematic Review for Notification of ISO 15706-2:2007 (vers 2) Information and documentation - International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) - Part 2; Version Identifier ??? CONFIRM There are a couple more standards Ill be sending out a note about soon mark From MNeedleman at flvc.org Wed Dec 2 10:05:20 2015 From: MNeedleman at flvc.org (Mark Needleman) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:05:20 +0000 Subject: [Asis-standards] new more votes Message-ID: 2 more upcoming votes ( last ones in 2015) Personally I don't feel qualified to judge the usefullness of eith or these Also relevant document attached to this note ( there are 2 separate votes but the document applies t oboth so I only included 1 copy) mark 1) NWIP ISO 8784-2 Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface This is a TC46/SC2 new work item proposal to develop a new standard Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface This part of ISO 8784 specifies a method for determining the bacteria, yeast and mould population on the surface of paper and paperboard. The enumeration relates to specific media. The standard is applicable to all kinds of paper and paperboard, to dry market pulp in sheet form and to packaging material. The first part of ISO 8784 deals with the enumeration of aerobic bacteria and bacterial spores in dry market pulp, paper and paperboard, and it is based on disintegration. 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 email 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) 2) ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface This is a TC46 SC10 new work item proposal to develop a new standard on ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface. This part of ISO 8784 specifies a method for determining the bacteria, yeast and mould population on the surface of paper and paperboard. The enumeration relates to specific media. The standard is applicable to all kinds of paper and paperboard, to dry market pulp in sheet form and to packaging material. The first part of ISO 8784 deals with the enumeration of aerobic bacteria and bacterial spores in dry market pulp, paper and paperboard, and it is based on disintegration. 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 Yes or No vote. Consider whether you think this standard will be used in the U.S. 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 email 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. Your voting options are: Yes - approve the creation of this new project (Comments required regarding market relevance; expert nomination is necessary but optional.) No - do not approve this new project (Comments required on reasons why not.) Abstain from voting (comments optional) -------------- next part -------------- 2 more upcoming votes ( last ones in 2015) Personally I don???t feel qualified to judge the usefullness of eith or these Also relevant document attached to this note ( there are 2 separate votes but the document applies t oboth so I only included 1 copy) mark 1) NWIP ISO 8784-2 Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface This is a TC46/SC2 new work item proposal to develop a new standard Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface This part of ISO 8784 specifies a method for determining the bacteria, yeast and mould population on the surface of paper and paperboard. The enumeration relates to specific media. The standard is applicable to all kinds of paper and paperboard, to dry market pulp in sheet form and to packaging material. The first part of ISO 8784 deals with the enumeration of aerobic bacteria and bacterial spores in dry market pulp, paper and paperboard, and it is based on disintegration. 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 email 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) 2) ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface This is a TC46 SC10 new work item proposal to develop a new standard on ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface. This part of ISO 8784 specifies a method for determining the bacteria, yeast and mould population on the surface of paper and paperboard. The enumeration relates to specific media. The standard is applicable to all kinds of paper and paperboard, to dry market pulp in sheet form and to packaging material. The first part of ISO 8784 deals with the enumeration of aerobic bacteria and bacterial spores in dry market pulp, paper and paperboard, and it is based on disintegration. 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 Yes or No vote. Consider whether you think this standard will be used in the U.S. 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 email 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. Your voting options are: Yes - approve the creation of this new project (Comments required regarding market relevance; expert nomination is necessary but optional.) No - do not approve this new project (Comments required on reasons why not.) Abstain from voting (comments optional) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The enumeration relates to specific media. The standard is applicable to all kinds of paper and paperboard, to dry market pulp in sheet form and to packaging material. The first part of ISO 8784 deals with the enumeration of aerobic bacteria and bacterial spores in dry market pulp, paper and paperboard, and it is based on disintegration. 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 email 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) 2) ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface This is a TC46 SC10 new work item proposal to develop a new standard on ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface. This part of ISO 8784 specifies a method for determining the bacteria, yeast and mould population on the surface of paper and paperboard. The enumeration relates to specific media. The standard is applicable to all kinds of paper and paperboard, to dry market pulp in sheet form and to packaging material. The first part of ISO 8784 deals with the enumeration of aerobic bacteria and bacterial spores in dry market pulp, paper and paperboard, and it is based on disintegration. 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 Yes or No vote. Consider whether you think this standard will be used in the U.S. 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 email 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. Your voting options are: Yes - approve the creation of this new project (Comments required regarding market relevance; expert nomination is necessary but optional.) No - do not approve this new project (Comments required on reasons why not.) Abstain from voting (comments optional) From MNeedleman at flvc.org Wed Dec 2 10:23:43 2015 From: MNeedleman at flvc.org (Mark Needleman) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:23:43 +0000 Subject: [Asis-standards] new more votes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: that's cerainly the easy option - no comment required - I don't have a problem with that mark -----Original Message----- From: Thornburg,Gail [mailto:thornbug at oclc.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 10:23 AM To: Mark Needleman; 'asis-standards at asis.org' Subject: RE: new more votes I think we should abstain -----Original Message----- From: Asis-standards [mailto:asis-standards-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Mark Needleman Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 10:05 AM To: 'asis-standards at asis.org' Subject: [Asis-standards] new more votes 2 more upcoming votes ( last ones in 2015) Personally I don't feel qualified to judge the usefullness of eith or these Also relevant document attached to this note ( there are 2 separate votes but the document applies t oboth so I only included 1 copy) mark 1) NWIP ISO 8784-2 Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface This is a TC46/SC2 new work item proposal to develop a new standard Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface This part of ISO 8784 specifies a method for determining the bacteria, yeast and mould population on the surface of paper and paperboard. The enumeration relates to specific media. The standard is applicable to all kinds of paper and paperboard, to dry market pulp in sheet form and to packaging material. The first part of ISO 8784 deals with the enumeration of aerobic bacteria and bacterial spores in dry market pulp, paper and paperboard, and it is based on disintegration. 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 email 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) 2) ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface This is a TC46 SC10 new work item proposal to develop a new standard on ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface. This part of ISO 8784 specifies a method for determining the bacteria, yeast and mould population on the surface of paper and paperboard. The enumeration relates to specific media. The standard is applicable to all kinds of paper and paperboard, to dry market pulp in sheet form and to packaging material. The first part of ISO 8784 deals with the enumeration of aerobic bacteria and bacterial spores in dry market pulp, paper and paperboard, and it is based on disintegration. 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 Yes or No vote. Consider whether you think this standard will be used in the U.S. 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 email 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. Your voting options are: Yes - approve the creation of this new project (Comments required regarding market relevance; expert nomination is necessary but optional.) No - do not approve this new project (Comments required on reasons why not.) Abstain from voting (comments optional) From MNeedleman at flvc.org Wed Dec 2 10:28:28 2015 From: MNeedleman at flvc.org (Mark Needleman) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:28:28 +0000 Subject: [Asis-standards] comments due date Message-ID: Forogt to mention - comments on those 2 votes I jusr sent out are due on 12/29/2015 -------------- next part -------------- Forogt to mention ??? comments on those 2 votes I jusr sent out are due on 12/29/2015 From MNeedleman at flvc.org Tue Dec 8 07:28:53 2015 From: MNeedleman at flvc.org (Mark Needleman) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 12:28:53 +0000 Subject: [Asis-standards] ISO New Work Item Message-ID: Folks there is an ISO New Work Item ciming up for a vote in early January 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... read more 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) I have attached the proposal and a copy of a proposed standard to this document - Comments needed by 1/5/2016 Personal Opinion - its not a bad piece of work although the items defined are in many cases self evident mark -------------- next part -------------- Folks there is an ISO New Work Item ciming up for a vote in early January 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??? [1]read more 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) I have attached the proposal and a copy of a proposed standard to this document ??? Comments needed by 1/5/2016 Personal Opinion ??? its not a bad piece of work although the items defined are in many cases self evident mark References 1. http://www.niso.org/apps/org/workgroup/tc46ballots/ballot.php?id=678 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ISO_DIS_18461(E)-Character_PDF_document.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 499058 bytes Desc: ISO_DIS_18461(E)-Character_PDF_document.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: N514_ISONew Work Item Proposal Key indicators for museums (Form 4) - CIB-Vote initiated.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 253039 bytes Desc: N514_ISONew Work Item Proposal Key indicators for museums (Form 4) - CIB-Vote initiated.pdf URL: From needleman_mark at yahoo.com Mon Dec 14 10:05:04 2015 From: needleman_mark at yahoo.com (Mark Needleman) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:05:04 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Asis-standards] ASIST Bulletin References: <1759623192.725171.1450105504476.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1759623192.725171.1450105504476.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Folks a couple of things 1) this email i coming from the email address you can reach me at after 12/31/2025 - im not sure how much longer after that my work email addresses will still work you can also reach me at mark.needleman at gmail.com 2) The standards committee has been asked to put together a special issue of the Bulletin for the fall issue (articles would be due around July/August) We need to come up with some topic for 4-6 articles on standards issues (and more important people who will commit to writing them) We discussed a couple of topics at the meeting in St louis BibframeSemantic WebISO Thesauri standardsInteresting NISO development (People who were at the meeting please chime in with topics Ive forgotten) Can we brainstorm both topic and potential authors - and try to get some firm commitments by (lets say) the end of January - can we (hopefully) do this by email or do we need to arrange a conference call or 2 Obviously the 2 most important things in this process are 1) coming up with interesting topics (although there should be no shortage of those)2) More important is authors who can write articles and will commit to doing so? Thought, Comments - people who were in St Louis (and everyone) please jump in with comments - and also topics we discussed that didnt list above - but most importantly potential authors we can contact - or if you want to write an article yourself all the better (I know how to track you folks down) mark -------------- next part -------------- Folks a couple of things 1) this email i coming from the email address you can reach me at after 12/31/2025 - im not sure how much longer after that my work email addresses will still work you can also reach me at mark.needleman at gmail.com 2) The standards committee has been asked to put together a special issue of the Bulletin for the fall issue (articles would be due around July/August) We need to come up with some topic for 4-6 articles on standards issues (and more important people who will commit to writing them) We discussed a couple of topics at the meeting in St louis Bibframe Semantic Web ISO Thesauri standards Interesting NISO development (People who were at the meeting please chime in with topics Ive forgotten) Can we brainstorm both topic and potential authors - and try to get some firm commitments by (lets say) the end of January - can we (hopefully) do this by email or do we need to arrange a conference call or 2 Obviously the 2 most important things in this process are 1) coming up with interesting topics (although there should be no shortage of those) 2) More important is authors who can write articles and will commit to doing so Thought, Comments - people who were in St Louis (and everyone) please jump in with comments - and also topics we discussed that didnt list above - but most importantly potential authors we can contact - or if you want to write an article yourself all the better (I know how to track you folks down) mark From tdickey1 at kent.edu Tue Dec 15 07:36:08 2015 From: tdickey1 at kent.edu (TIMOTHY DICKEY) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 07:36:08 -0500 Subject: [Asis-standards] ISO New Work Item In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Good morning, all, I agree that many of the contents are self-evident, and would add that the engagement in this document with virtual surrogates for a collection, virtual exhibits and virtual access are perfunctory at best. This de-emphasis might run into trouble before the work is even complete. Yes or Abstain. All best, timothy Timothy J. Dickey, Ph.D., MLIS. tdickey1 at kent.edu (614) 785-1632 On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Mark Needleman wrote: > > Folks > > > there is an ISO New Work Item ciming up for a vote in early January > > > 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? [1]read more 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) > > > I have attached the proposal and a copy of a proposed standard to this > document ? Comments needed by 1/5/2016 > > > Personal Opinion ? its not a bad piece of work although the items > defined > are in many cases self evident > > > mark > > References > > 1. http://www.niso.org/apps/org/workgroup/tc46ballots/ballot.php?id=678 > > _______________________________________________ > Asis-standards mailing list > Asis-standards at asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-standards > > -------------- next part -------------- Good morning, all, I agree that many of the contents are self-evident, and would add that the engagement in this document with virtual surrogates for a collection, virtual exhibits and virtual access are perfunctory at best. This de-emphasis might run into trouble before the work is even complete. Yes or Abstain. All best, timothy Timothy J. Dickey, Ph.D., MLIS. [1]tdickey1 at kent.edu (614) 785-1632 On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Mark Needleman <[2]MNeedleman at flvc.org> wrote: ? ? Folks ? ? there is an ISO New Work Item ciming up for a vote in early January ? ? 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?? [1]read more 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) ? ? I have attached the proposal and a copy of a proposed standard to this ? ? document ? Comments needed by 1/5/2016 ? ? Personal Opinion ? its not a bad piece of work although the items defined ? ? are in many cases self evident ? ? mark References ? ? 1. [3]http://www.niso.org/apps/org/workgroup/tc46ballots/ballot.php?id=678 _______________________________________________ Asis-standards mailing list [4]Asis-standards at asis.org [5]http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-standards References 1. mailto:tdickey1 at kent.edu 2. mailto:MNeedleman at flvc.org 3. http://www.niso.org/apps/org/workgroup/tc46ballots/ballot.php?id=678 4. mailto:Asis-standards at asis.org 5. http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-standards From tdickey1 at kent.edu Tue Dec 15 07:36:19 2015 From: tdickey1 at kent.edu (TIMOTHY DICKEY) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 07:36:19 -0500 Subject: [Asis-standards] new more votes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Certainly an abstention here seems appropriate. timothy Timothy J. Dickey, Ph.D., MLIS. tdickey1 at kent.edu (614) 785-1632 On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Mark Needleman wrote: > that's cerainly the easy option - no comment required - I don't have a > problem with that > > mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thornburg,Gail [mailto:thornbug at oclc.org] > Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 10:23 AM > To: Mark Needleman; 'asis-standards at asis.org' > Subject: RE: new more votes > > I think we should abstain > > -----Original Message----- > From: Asis-standards [mailto:asis-standards-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf > Of Mark Needleman > Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 10:05 AM > To: 'asis-standards at asis.org' > Subject: [Asis-standards] new more votes > > 2 more upcoming votes ( last ones in 2015) > > Personally I don't feel qualified to judge the usefullness of eith or these > > Also relevant document attached to this note ( there are 2 separate votes > but the document applies t oboth so I only included 1 copy) > > mark > > > 1) NWIP ISO 8784-2 Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of > bacteria, yeast and mould on surface > > This is a TC46/SC2 new work item proposal to develop a new standard > Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and > mould on surface > > This part of ISO 8784 specifies a method for determining the bacteria, > yeast and mould population on the surface of paper and paperboard. The > enumeration relates to specific media. The standard is applicable to all > kinds of paper and paperboard, to dry market pulp in sheet form and to > packaging material. The first part of ISO > 8784 deals with the enumeration of aerobic bacteria and bacterial spores > in dry market pulp, paper and paperboard, and it is based on disintegration. > > 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 email 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) > > > > 2) ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 > Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface > > This is a TC46 SC10 new work item proposal to develop a new standard on > ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 > Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface. > > This part of ISO 8784 specifies a method for determining the bacteria, > yeast and mould population on the surface of paper and paperboard. The > enumeration relates to specific media. The standard is applicable to all > kinds of paper and paperboard, to dry market pulp in sheet form and to > packaging material. The first part of ISO 8784 deals with the enumeration > of aerobic bacteria and bacterial spores in dry market pulp, paper and > paperboard, and it is based on disintegration. > > 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 Yes or > No vote. Consider whether you think this standard will be used in the U.S. > > 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 email 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. > > Your voting options are: > > Yes - approve the creation of this new project (Comments required > regarding market relevance; expert nomination is necessary but optional.) > > No - do not approve this new project (Comments required on reasons why > not.) > > Abstain from voting (comments optional) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asis-standards mailing list > Asis-standards at asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-standards > -------------- next part -------------- Certainly an abstention here seems appropriate. timothy Timothy J. Dickey, Ph.D., MLIS. [1]tdickey1 at kent.edu (614) 785-1632 On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Mark Needleman <[2]MNeedleman at flvc.org> wrote: that's cerainly the easy option - no comment required - I don't have a problem with that mark -----Original Message----- From: Thornburg,Gail [mailto:[3]thornbug at oclc.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 10:23 AM To: Mark Needleman; '[4]asis-standards at asis.org' Subject: RE: new more votes I think we should abstain -----Original Message----- From: Asis-standards [mailto:[5]asis-standards-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Mark Needleman Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 10:05 AM To: '[6]asis-standards at asis.org' Subject: [Asis-standards] new more votes 2 more upcoming votes ( last ones in 2015) Personally I don't feel qualified to judge the usefullness of eith or these Also relevant document attached to this note ( there are 2 separate votes but the document applies t oboth so I only included 1 copy) mark 1)? NWIP ISO 8784-2 Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface This is a TC46/SC2 new work item proposal to develop a new standard Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface This part of ISO 8784 specifies a method for determining the bacteria, yeast and mould population on the surface of paper and paperboard. The enumeration relates to specific media. The standard is applicable to all kinds of paper and paperboard, to dry market pulp in sheet form and to packaging material. The first part of ISO 8784 deals with the enumeration of aerobic bacteria and bacterial spores in dry market pulp, paper and paperboard, and it is based on disintegration. 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 email 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) 2) ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface This is a TC46 SC10 new work item proposal to develop a new standard on ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface. This part of ISO 8784 specifies a method for determining the bacteria, yeast and mould population on the surface of paper and paperboard. The enumeration relates to specific media. The standard is applicable to all kinds of paper and paperboard, to dry market pulp in sheet form and to packaging material. The first part of ISO 8784 deals with the enumeration of aerobic bacteria and bacterial spores in dry market pulp, paper and paperboard, and it is based on disintegration. 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 Yes or No vote. Consider whether you think this standard will be used in the U.S. 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 email 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. Your voting options are: Yes - approve the creation of this new project (Comments required regarding market relevance; expert nomination is necessary but optional.) No - do not approve this new project (Comments required on reasons why not.) Abstain from voting (comments optional) _______________________________________________ Asis-standards mailing list [7]Asis-standards at asis.org [8]http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-standards References 1. mailto:tdickey1 at kent.edu 2. mailto:MNeedleman at flvc.org 3. mailto:thornbug at oclc.org 4. mailto:asis-standards at asis.org 5. mailto:asis-standards-bounces at asis.org 6. mailto:asis-standards at asis.org 7. mailto:Asis-standards at asis.org 8. http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-standards From needleman_mark at yahoo.com Wed Dec 16 09:56:32 2015 From: needleman_mark at yahoo.com (Mark Needleman) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Asis-standards] Upcoming votes References: <813170844.1686782.1450277793184.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <813170844.1686782.1450277793184.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> 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 -------------- next part -------------- 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. 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Name: z39-2-1994(r2009).pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 181822 bytes Desc: not available URL: From thornbug at oclc.org Wed Dec 16 10:14:36 2015 From: thornbug at oclc.org (Thornburg,Gail) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 15:14:36 +0000 Subject: [Asis-standards] Upcoming votes In-Reply-To: <813170844.1686782.1450277793184.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <813170844.1686782.1450277793184.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <813170844.1686782.1450277793184.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: That last one sounds interesting though I don't know anything about it -----Original Message----- From: Asis-standards [mailto:asis-standards-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Mark Needleman Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 9:57 AM To: ASIST Standards Committee Subject: [Asis-standards] Upcoming votes 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 From mzeng at kent.edu Wed Dec 16 12:23:03 2015 From: mzeng at kent.edu (ZENG, MARCIA) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:23:03 +0000 Subject: [Asis-standards] Upcoming votes In-Reply-To: <813170844.1686782.1450277793184.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <813170844.1686782.1450277793184.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <813170844.1686782.1450277793184.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: For the museum one, I think this is a good step. I assume they will emphasize on the documentation and archiving, or include these. Marcia On 12/16/15, 9:56 AM, "Asis-standards on behalf of Mark Needleman" wrote: >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 > From needleman_mark at yahoo.com Mon Dec 28 14:52:14 2015 From: needleman_mark at yahoo.com (Mark Needleman) Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:52:14 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Asis-standards] ISO votes References: <1846706058.3433544.1451332334980.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1846706058.3433544.1451332334980.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Folks since i didn't get any comments and i felt we really don't have expertise in this area I just voted ABSTAIN on ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface NWIP ISO 8784-2 Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface if anyone thinks we should change our vote we have until tomorrow 12/29 to do so Ill be sending out a note on some upcoming votes soon Mark -------------- next part -------------- Folks since i didn't get any comments and i felt we really don't have expertise in this area I just voted ABSTAIN on ISO 8784-2 Pulp, paper and board - Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface NWIP ISO 8784-2 Microbiological examination - Part 2 Enumeration of bacteria, yeast and mould on surface if anyone thinks we should change our vote we have until tomorrow 12/29 to do so Ill be sending out a note on some upcoming votes soon Mark From needleman_mark at yahoo.com Wed Dec 30 16:20:36 2015 From: needleman_mark at yahoo.com (Mark Needleman) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:20:36 -0500 Subject: [Asis-standards] upcoming votes Message-ID: Folks some upcoming votes - sorry about the short timeframe on some of them - ill be sending these out in 2 emails mark 1) New Work Item Proposal ISO 18461 key indicators for museums his 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 by 1/5/2016 - if you have an suggestions for someone who you think should work on this let me know 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) ABSTAIN from voting (comments are required since members of the voting pool volunteered to join, so an abstention vote requires explanation) 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 by 1/6/2016 - note u think we should reaffirm this 3) New Work Item Proposal ISO /TR 28118 Quality assessment for national libraries his 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 by 1/7/2016 - if you have an suggestions for someone who you think should work on this let me know -------------- next part -------------- Folks some upcoming votes - sorry about the short timeframe on some of them - ill be sending these out in 2 emails mark 1) New Work Item Proposal ISO 18461 key indicators for museums his 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. 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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) ABSTAIN from voting (comments are required since members of the voting pool volunteered to join, so an abstention vote requires explanation) 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. 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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 needed by 1.8/2016 - if anyone has any interest in participating in this effort or knows someone who would make a good committee member let me know 5) ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (R2010) Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies This ballot is for the periodic review of the published standard ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (R2010) Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies. This standard was last reviewed and reaffirmed in 2010. A copy of the Z39.19 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 REVISE the standard. Please see further notes below. 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 Revision of the standard (comments optional) NO - Do not approve the Revision of the standard (comments required) ABSTAIN from voting (comments are required since members of the voting pool volunteered to join, so an abstention vote requires explanation) Notes: The community has noted the need for general revisions and edits, such as replacing references to AACR2 with references to RDA (Resource Description and Access) and revising references to ISO standards to ensure they are the current versions. There are also a number of the definitions of terms in Section 4 (Definitions, Abbreviations and Acronyms) which could be enhanced or improved, such as the definition of document which is currently too broad and does not correspond to current use. There are also, terms such as ?generic structure? which could be argued to be an obsolete taxonomy approach. The wording in some sections is confusing and should be clarified such as Section 5.3.4 (Facet Analysis). In some cases the guidance in the standard is contrary to common practice, such as Sections 6.2.1 (Homographs) and 6.7.2.1 (Non-Alphabetic Characters ? Parentheses) which call for the avoidance of the use of parentheses whenever possible when disambiguating terms. Many would argue that they should be avoided completely by adding the parenthetical word as part of the descriptor, but without parentheses by using natural language order. The call to use adjectives and adverbs to limit the number of compound terms (Section 6.4.2.2; Section 6.4.3) are further examples of guidance which is contrary to standard best practices by suggesting the use of adjectives or adverbs as terms (and not as part of a noun phrase). Naked adjectives and adverbs are inherently ambiguous as indexing terms. This section should be removed. Additional review and revision could and should be done of the sections discussing hierarchical relationships, display types and vocabulary management systems. The Content and Collection Management Topic Committee feels these concerns and additional ones not referenced here support a recommendation to review and revise Z39.19. Comments needed by 1/23/2016 - Hopefully members of the committee who are familiar with this subject can provide comments and a recommendation for a vote 6) ANSI/NISO Z39.18-2005 (R2010) Scientific and Technical Reports - Preparation, Presentation, and Preservation This ballot is for the periodic review of the published standard ANSI/NISO Z39.18-2005 (R2010) Scientific and Technical Reports - Preparation, Presentation, and Preservation. This standard was last reviewed and reaffirmed in 2010. A copy of the Z39.18 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 REVISE the standard, in order to address digital formats for documents. 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 Revision of the standard (comments optional) NO - Do not approve the Revision of the standard (comments required) ABSTAIN from voting (comments are required since members of the voting pool volunteered to join, so an abstention vote requires explanation) Comments needed by 1/23/2016 -------------- next part -------------- 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 needed by 1.8/2016 - if anyone has any interest in participating in this effort or knows someone who would make a good committee member let me know 5) ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (R2010) Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies This ballot is for the periodic review of the published standard ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (R2010) Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies. This standard was last reviewed and reaffirmed in 2010. A copy of the Z39.19 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 REVISE the standard. Please see further notes below. 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 Revision of the standard (comments optional) NO - Do not approve the Revision of the standard (comments required) ABSTAIN from voting (comments are required since members of the voting pool volunteered to join, so an abstention vote requires explanation) Notes: The community has noted the need for general revisions and edits, such as replacing references to AACR2 with references to RDA (Resource Description and Access) and revising references to ISO standards to ensure they are the current versions. There are also a number of the definitions of terms in Section 4 (Definitions, Abbreviations and Acronyms) which could be enhanced or improved, such as the definition of document which is currently too broad and does not correspond to current use. There are also, terms such as ?generic structure? which could be argued to be an obsolete taxonomy approach. The wording in some sections is confusing and should be clarified such as Section 5.3.4 (Facet Analysis). In some cases the guidance in the standard is contrary to common practice, such as Sections 6.2.1 (Homographs) and 6.7.2.1 (Non-Alphabetic Characters ? Parentheses) which call for the avoidance of the use of parentheses whenever possible when disambiguating terms. Many would argue that they should be avoided completely by adding the parenthetical word as part of the descriptor, but without parentheses by using natural language order. The call to use adjectives and adverbs to limit the number of compound terms (Section 6.4.2.2; Section 6.4.3) are further examples of guidance which is contrary to standard best practices by suggesting the use of adjectives or adverbs as terms (and not as part of a noun phrase). Naked adjectives and adverbs are inherently ambiguous as indexing terms. This section should be removed. Additional review and revision could and should be done of the sections discussing hierarchical relationships, display types and vocabulary management systems. The Content and Collection Management Topic Committee feels these concerns and additional ones not referenced here support a recommendation to review and revise Z39.19. Comments needed by 1/23/2016 - Hopefully members of the committee who are familiar with this subject can provide comments and a recommendation for a vote 6) ANSI/NISO Z39.18-2005 (R2010) Scientific and Technical Reports - Preparation, Presentation, and Preservation This ballot is for the periodic review of the published standard ANSI/NISO Z39.18-2005 (R2010) Scientific and Technical Reports - Preparation, Presentation, and Preservation. This standard was last reviewed and reaffirmed in 2010. A copy of the Z39.18 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 REVISE the standard, in order to address digital formats for documents. 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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 by 1/5/2016 - if you have an suggestions for someone who you think should work on this let me know 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) ABSTAIN from voting (comments are required since members of the voting pool volunteered to join, so an abstention vote requires explanation) 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 by 1/6/2016 - note u think we should reaffirm this 3) New Work Item Proposal ISO /TR 28118 Quality assessment for national libraries his 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 by 1/7/2016 - if you have an suggestions for someone who you think should work on this let me know