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NISO and Open Archives Initiative Receive Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Create Resource Synchronization Standard
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Open Access, Resources
From the National Institute of Standards Organizations: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives Initiative have been awarded a $222,000 grant for a joint project to develop a new open standard on the real-time synchronization of Web resources. Increasingly, large-scale digital collections are available from multiple hosting locations, are cached at multiple […]
NISO Launches New Open Discovery Initiative to Develop Standards and Recommended Practices for Library Discovery Services Based on Indexed Search
| Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Ex Libris, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Patrons and Users
From a NISO Announcement: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members have approved a new Open Discovery Initiative work item to develop standards and recommended practices for next generation library discovery services. Using an aggregated index search of a wide range of resources, licensed and free, from multiple providers, these discovery services have the […]
NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standards for Digital Bookmarking and Annotation Sharing
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Patrons and Users, Resources
From a NISO Announcement: The National Information Standards Organization voting members have approved a new work item to develop a standard syntax for how bookmarks and notes should be located in digital texts and shared with others, especially in online environments that might be continually updated or mutable. The ability to accurately refer to a […]
The focus of this issue: standards. Kevin Hawkins, head of digital publishing production for MPublishing, Guest Editor Direct to Table of Contents (Vol. 14 No.1; Summer (August) 2011 Direct to Articles A Note from the Guest Editor by Kevin S. Hawkins The Value of Standards in Electronic Content Distribution: Reflections on the Adoption of NISO […]
From a NISO Announcement: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has been awarded a $48,500 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund two standards incubation workshops, which it will lead with the Internet Archive, on the topic of E-Book Annotation Sharing and Social Reading. These meetings will be held in conjunction with the […]
Just Out: A Special Issue of NISO's Information Standards Quarterly Focuses on eBooks
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Management and Leadership, Public Libraries, Publishing
Direct to Full Text of Spring 2011 Issue (Vol. 23 No. 2) Table of Contents Full Text (PDF) From a NISO Announcement and Summary: ISQ Guest Content Editor, October Ivins of Ivins eContent Solutions has pulled together a broad range of perspectives on what is happening today with e-books and particularly with e-book standards. As […]
The NISO: Mobile Technologies Forum is an all-day event taking place in Philadelphia today (May 20, 2011). Agenda Tweets available at #NISOmobile Slides from Keynote Speaker, Brian O’Leary, Founder and Principal, Magellan Media
"NISO Revised Recommended Practice for RFID in U.S. Libraries Available for Public Comment"
| Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Resources
From the NISO Web Site: The National Information Standards Organization announces the availability of RFID in U.S. Libraries (NISO RP-6-201x) for a thirty day public comment period, beginning immediately and ending on June 9, 2011. This revision of the 2008 Recommended Practice recommends a set of practices and procedures to ensure interoperability among U.S. RFID […]
This webinar took place on March 16. 2011. Speakers: Thomas Baker, DCMI Mikael Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Metadata Harmonization: Making Standards Work Together (41 Slides; PDF) See Also: More NISO/DCMI Webinars are Scheduled Throughout the Year
