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The NISO Architecture Committee was formed in early 2007 in response to a strategic restructuring. The Architecture Committee is responsible for providing strategic direction for the organization, provide oversight and leadership for standards development in areas new to NISO, and coordinate with and provide guidance to the NISO Topic Committees (Business Information Topic Committee, Content & Collection Management Topic Committee, and Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee). It was revised in 2010 in order to focus its membership and work.
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The NISO Education Committee was first formed in early 2007 in response to a strategic restructuring. In order to respond to its broad constituency and their diverse needs, NISO needs to provide wide-ranging and robust education and training sessions. In addition to bringing in outside expertise and perspective, an education committee formed of individuals from diverse communities allows NISO to separate the content development—the main focus of this group—from the organizational and budgetary aspects of planning education programs and meetings.
The Education Committee will be responsible for determining the topical focus of educational programs, setting an agenda, and recruiting speakers. In addition, the Committee will identify other opportunities for NISO to educate and inform the information communities about its work.
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The NISO Content and Collection Management Committee was formed in early 2007 in response to a strategic restructuring. As part of NISO's organizational structure, topic committees that bring together leaders in specific subjects have been created to provide direction to the organization for standards development in those umbrella topic areas. The Content and Collection Management Topic Committee focuses on issues regarding developing, describing, providing access to, and maintaining content items and collections. Specific topics include: Dublin Core, library binding, SAN, RFID, etc.
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The NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee was formed in early 2007 in response to a strategic restructuring. As part of NISO's organizational structure, topic committees that bring together leaders in specific subjects have been created to provide direction to the organization for standards development in those umbrella topic areas. The Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee focuses on issues regarding the finding and distribution of information by and to users, including OpenURL, Metasearch, interface design, web services, etc.
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The NISO Business Information Committee was formed in early 2007 in response to a strategic restructuring. As part of NISO's organizational structure, topic committees that bring together leaders in specific subjects have been created to provide direction to the organization for standards development in those umbrella topic areas. The Business Information Topic Committee focuses on issues regarding the management structure surrounding the acquisition, licensing, purchasing, and analysis of information. Specific areas include: license expression, online usage data, access management, performance measures and other statistics, etc.
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In September 2005 NISO launched a partnership with the ALPSP (the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) in the UK that has brought together experts from the publishing, library, library systems and user communities to examine the problems associated with the proliferation of different versions of journal articles.
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KBART is a joint working group of NISO and the UK Serials Group (UKSG). The group is comprised of representatives from publishers, libraries, link resolver and ERM vendors, subscription agents and other parties involved in the creation of, provision of data to, and implementation of knowledge bases. The KBART working group is charged with developing a best practice for supply of data pertaining to e-resources in general.
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NISO Voting Members workroom. Provides a repository for documents and forum in which to present NISO Voting Members with NISO ballots.
This Group is for NISO Voting Members Only.
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This group is charged with developing a Recommended Practice that will provide much-needed guidance on the presentation of e-journals—particularly in the areas of title presentation, accurate use of the ISSN, and citation practices—to publishers and platform providers as well as to solve some long-standing concerns of serials librarians.
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The Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group is charged with developing Recommended Practices to be used to support a new mechanism for publishers to sell e-resources without licenses if they feel their perception of risk has been adequately addressed by current law and developing norms of behavior.
The document will be an expression of a set of shared understandings of publisher and library expectations regarding the sale of an electronic resource subscription. Negotiation between publisher perspectives and library perspectives will be needed to develop a useful set of practices.
The working group will build on considerable work to identify key elements of a best practices document already begun during a one-day meeting sponsored by ARL, ALPSP, SSP, and SPARC. All of the participants in that scoping meeting expressed a strong desire to continue to work on this project and form the proposed working group to develop best practices.
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The SERU Standing Committee provides maintenance support for the NISO Recommended Practice, NISO RP-7-2008, SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding, available at: http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-7-2008.pdf
Visit the SERU website at www.niso.org/workrooms/seru
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The goal of this work item, "Standardized Markup for Journal Articles Based on the NLM's Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite," is to take the currently existing National Library of Medicine (NLM) Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite version 3.0, the three journal article schemas, and the documentation and shepherd it through the NISO standardization process. The intent of this proposal is for the Tag Suite to be a NISO standard and each of the schemas to be a "sub-standard" or appendix to the Tag Suite standard. To achieve this objective, this proposal is to convene a NISO Working Group with the intention of proposing that the Tag Suite, as it currently stands, be accepted as a Draft Standard following a brief period of review within the group.
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The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.93) defines an automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic resource usage data utilizing a Web services framework. It is intended to replace the time-consuming user-mediated collection of usage data reports.
The protocol was designed to be both generalized and extensible, meaning it could be used to retrieve a variety of usage reports. An extension designed specifically to work with COUNTER reports is provided with the standard, as these are expected to be the most frequently retrieved usage reports.
The SUSHI Standing Committee provides maintenance support for the standard. To read the SUSHI abstract or download a copy of the standard, visit www.niso.org/standards/z39-93-2007. For information on SUSHI schemas, please visit http://www.niso.org/schemas/sushi/. To view registry information, press coverage, FAQ information, and other reference material, visit http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi.
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What is ISO TC 46/SC 11? * ISO is the International Organization for Standardization. * TC 46 is ISO's Technical Committee (TC) for information and documentation standards. * SC 11 is the TC 46 Subcommittee (SC) that develops and maintains ISO standards on archives and records management.
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U.S. members of NISO that have expressed interest in seeing informational documents (other than ballots) for TC46/SC4, Technical interoperability.
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What is ISO TC 46/SC 9?
* ISO is the International Organization for Standardization.
* TC 46 is ISO's Technical Committee (TC) for information and documentation standards.
* SC 9 is the TC 46 Subcommittee (SC) that develops and maintains ISO standards on the identification and description of information resources.
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The Z39.7 Standing Committee is responsible for the continuous maintenance of the Data Dictionary. Comments and change proposals from the public are reviewed and evaluated at the ALA midwinter and annual conferences.
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NCIP (NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol) Standing Committee. This committee maintains the current ANSI/NISO standard, provides support to those interested in NCIP, and develops education and outreach on NCIP.
