Everyone's a player: Creation of standards in a fast-paced shared world

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Everyone’s a Player:Creation of Standards in a Fast-

Paced, Shared World

Nettie LagaceNISO Associate Director for Programs

NASIG, Nashville TNJune 9, 2012

• Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items• Printed Information on Spines• Single-Tier Steel Bracket Library Shelving• Data Elements for Binding Library Materials• Information Interchange Format (basis for MARC)• The U.S. National Z39.50 Profile for Library Applications• International Standard Serial Numbering (ISSN)• Dublin Core Metadata Element Set• Syntax for the Digital Object Identifier• The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services• Ranking of Authentication and Access Methods Available to

the Metasearch Environment• NISO Metasearch XML Gateway Implementers Guide• The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative

(SUSHI) Protocol• SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding• KBART: Knowledge Bases and Related Tools• ESPReSSO: Establishing Suggested Practices Regarding

Single Sign-On• Physical Delivery of Library Resources• IOTA: OpenURL Quality Metrics• ERM Data Review: Gap Analysis Project• I2 (Institutional Identifiers)• PIE-J (Presentation & Identification of E-Journals)• Standardized Markup for Journal Articles• Authoring and Interchange Framework for Adaptive XML

Publishing Specification• Digital Bookmarking and Annotation• Specification for Web Resource Synchronization

NISO is the force behind

CCM

BUSINFO

D2D

AC

who is NISO?

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New NISO work items • What is not working and how does that

affect stakeholders?• Does this relate to other existing efforts? Is

a shift in one/more of them required or is a new effort needed?

• Who will benefit from the deliverables?• Who needs to participate?• What does the initiative need to do; what

does it NOT need to do• How can uptake of the deliverable be

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Definitions and Principles

Balance: no single interest category constitutes a majority of the membership / voting pool / working group: producer, user, general interest

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Recommended PracticeStandard

Consensus: respond to all comments and make efforts to resolve negative votes, even if proposal is approvedOpen process: allowing members and the community to have confidence in NISO standards.

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nlagace@niso.orgnettie@niso.org

@abugseye

thank you!