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The 2009 National Forum Committee seeks proposals for high quality concurrent sessions for the 12th annual LITA National Forum to be held at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 1-4, 2009. Keynoters David Weinberger, author of ‘Everything is Miscellaneous’ and Joan Lippincott, CNI’s Associate Executive Director have [...]

Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO, has brought to our attention a clutch of announcements on new ISO activities. The first two of these involve (1) an ISO Committee Draft of a TC46/SC11 New work item: Management system for records – Fundamentals and vocabulary and (2) : Information and documentation – Management system for records [...]

The last of the ISO activities forwarded to us by the busy Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO, is an ISO Committee Draft of an International Standard issued for ballot: ISO/DIS 26162, Design, implementation and maintenance of terminology management systems. NISO has forwarded the following about this draft standard: “This is a ballot for the [...]

There will be some downtime on LITABlog this afternoon while we update and attempt to bring under control the ongoing spam issues. We’ll try and keep the downtime to an absolutely minimum.

LITABlog has been the subject of an ongoing Spam attack over the last 24 hours or so. Some posts have been taken offline until we can clean them, and we’re working on the underlying issue. If there is going to be any actual downtime for the blog, we’ll notify everyone asap.

Last in the group of recent notifications from Cindy Hepfer, long-suffering ALA Voting representative to NISO, is for “ISO 23081-1, Metadata for records– Part 1: Principles.” From the ballot itself: “This is a systematic review ballot of the published standard, ISO 23081-1, Information and documentation: Records management processes –Metadata for records –Part 1: Principles.” If [...]

Our second notice from Cindy Hepfer, erstwhile ALA Voting representative to NISO, concerns an issue close to many ALA hearts: RFID. There are three ballots on RFID coming down the pike. Each is a separate ballot but are described together in this message for conciseness. First: “ISO/DIS 28560-1, RFID in librairies– Part 1: General requirements.” [...]

Cindy Hepfer, ALA’s ever vigilant voting representative to NISO has sent us a new clutch of standards information. The first one is “ISO/FDIS 8459, Classification of bibliographic data elements for use in data interchange” Quoting from the information that comes with the ballot: “First edition of the standard that merges and revises ISO 8459-1, ISO [...]

I’m posting an abbreviated report here because, from the look of it, the committee report form (which should show up on LITA-L) automagically combines all those carefully-prepared paragraphs into one big ugly paragraph. Ah, the wonders of automation… Anyway: We had five people at the single 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting session–two committee members (Judy Jeng [...]