NISO/BISG 8th Annual Forum onThe Changing Standards Landscape

Managing an Increasingly Complex and Interconnected World of Content

June 27, 2014 • Las Vegas, NV

Our very, very complex,

interconnected world

Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISONISO/BISG Changing Standards Landscape

ForumLas Vegas, NV • • • June 27, 2014

Happy 40th Birthday!

Happy 40th Birthday!

A US-based non-profit industry trade association accredited by ANSI with 200+ members

Mission of developing and maintaining technical standards related to information, documentation, discovery and distribution of published materials & media

Volunteer driven organization: 400+ spread out across the world

Represent US interests to ISO TC 46 & subcommitteesAlso serve as Secretariat for ISO TC46/SC9 - Identification & Description

Responsible for standards like ISSN, DOI, Dublin Core metadata, DAISY digital talking books, OpenURL, MARC records format, and ISBN

About

NISO’s Community

• IDEAlliance - Magazine industry, PRISM

• W3C - HTML5, CSS, RDF, mobile, web

• Library of Congress - MARC, PREMIS, SRU/SRW

• ALA - AACR2, RDA

• IDPF - EPUB, E-books

• ARMA-International - Records Management

• OASIS - XML Standards

• CrossRef - DOIs, FundRef, CrossMark

• IMSGlobal - Learning Management Systems

• ORCID - Researcher ID

• Amazon - ASIN, KINDLE

Still More Standards(ish) Orgs

• Image: Mark Bide (EDITEUR)8

9• Image: Mark Bide (EDITEUR)

10• Image: Mark Bide (EDITEUR)

One Ring to Rule Them All?

Photo: Minneapolis College

of Art and Design Library

June 20, 201412

Photo: OSU Thompson Library Stacks” by Kristin Six

June 20, 201413

14June 20, 2014

You can’t walk the stacks in a digital library

15June 20, 2014

How it fits together in a complex media

ecosystem

Some NISO Work in these areas

Open Discovery Initiative

Knowledgebases & Related Tools

Open Access Metadata and Indicators

Some NISO work in these area

Managing metadata well is

expensive

Managing metadata poorly is more expensive(often in ways you can’t

measure)

On the horizon

Linked Open Data

Non-Textual Content

Scientific Data

Digital Preservation

Altmetrics

We all want our own

Thank you!Todd Carpenter, Executive Director

tcarpenter@niso.orgNational Information Standards Organization (NISO)

3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302Baltimore, MD 21211 USA

+1 (301) 654-2512www.niso.org