Archive for the 'Standards Watch' Category

Recordkeeping Standards

February 1st, 2010 by Diane Hillmann

Cindy Hepfer, hardworking ALA Voting Representative to NISO has forwarded to us a group of announcements related to ISO/DIS 16175, Information and documentation–Principles and functional requirements for records in electronic office environments. This is a Fast track ballot, used to create an ISO standard from an existing standard, in this case the International Council on [...]

Last Standards Announcements of 2009?

December 22nd, 2009 by Diane Hillmann

Some end-of-year announcements by Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting Representative to NISO, give us some potential ideas for what to do over the long holidays, should all that free time make us antsy.
1. ISO/FDIS 690, Information and documentation — Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources, ballot for final draft standard.
“This International [...]

Standards Wave

December 8th, 2009 by Diane Hillmann

NISO has released a number of announcements about standards of particular interest to librarians, which have been forwarded to us by Cindy Hepfer, the ALA Voting Representative to NISO. In order to avoid a lot of repetition of instructions, I will include them all in this post, with enough information to pique your interest [...]

Country Codes

December 5th, 2009 by Diane Hillmann

New announcements from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting Representative to NISO are coming along quickly, and these are, for the most part, of more general interest to libraries. The first of these is ISO 3166-1:2006, Country codes.
“This part of ISO 3166 establishes codes that represent the current names of countries, dependencies, and other areas of [...]

Paper Standards to Ballot

December 5th, 2009 by Diane Hillmann

The second group of standards announcements passed to us by busy Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting Representative to NISO, concern standards for paper for permanence and archival uses.
1. Systematic Review, IS0 9706:1994, Paper for documents – Requirements for permanence.
“The purpose of this International Standard is to provide a means of specifying and identifying paper that, [...]

Standard character sets and transliterations

November 30th, 2009 by Diane Hillmann

Cindy Hepfer, ALA’s Voting Representative to NISO, has been busy pushing NISO standards announcements our way. I will be combining the announcements to save your time and LITABlog space. Instructions for requesting the relevant documents from Cindy appears at the end of this message.
The first group of announcements has to do with special character [...]

Two Upcoming ISO Ballots

November 16th, 2009 by Diane Hillmann

Cindy Hepfer, ALA’s Voting Representative to NISO, has notified us of two new items coming up for ballot early in the New Year.
The first is for ISO/DIS 27729, International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). The ISNI “… specifies the International Standard name identifier (ISNI) for the identification of public identities of parties; that is, the [...]

DOI Standard up for ballot

November 1st, 2009 by Diane Hillmann

Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting Representative to NISO, has brought to our attention an upcoming ballot for ISO/DIS 26324 (Digital Object Identifier System).
The announcement states:
“This International Standard specifies the syntax, description and resolution functional components of the digital object identifier (DOI®) system, and the general principles for the creation, registration and administration of DOI names. [...]

Persistent Identifiers–New standard up for ballot

September 21st, 2009 by Diane Hillmann

A new announcement has come from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting Representative to NISO. This one is in regards to ISO/DIS 24619, Persistent identification and access in language technology applications.
From the announcement:
“The scope of this International Standard is to present requirements when including resolvable persistent identifiers (PID) with references to and citations of language resources [...]

Additional Announcements from NISO

September 14th, 2009 by Diane Hillmann

We have two new announcements from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting Representative to NISO. These too also have fairly short deadlines (though not as short as the last group, thankfully).
1. ISO/FDIS 16245, Boxes, file covers and other enclosures, made from cellulosic materials, for storage. This ballot is for the final draft standard, described thusly:
“This International [...]