LITA BlogSome new standards news is available from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting Representative to NISO. She reports that the ‘Digital Talking Book Standard Revision Project Approval’ ballot is now available, to approve the initiation of a revision of ANSI/NISO Z39.86, Specifications for the Digital Talking Book. The revision proposal submitted by the standard’s maintenance agency, the [...]
LITA has received news of new standards activity of interest from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO (HSLcindy@buffalo.edu)
“A new ballot has been presented to TC46 Ballot Advisory Group: ‘ISO/DIS 28500, WARC file format’. This is a new standard at the Draft International Standard (DIS) stage, and this may be the last chance to provide substantive [...]
Those interested in identifier issues should take note of this updated info from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO (HSLcindy@buffalo.edu).
“A new ballot has been presented to TC46 Ballot Advisory Group: ‘ISO 2108:2005 (ISBN) Systematic Review’. This is a systematic review ballot of the published standard, ISO 2108:2005, Information and documentation — International Standard Book Number [...]
Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO has informed us that the following ISO Committee Draft of an International Standard has been issued for ballot: ISO/DIS 23081-2, Information and documentation — Records management processes for Metadata — Part 2: Conceptual and implementation issues
Cindy needs responses for this standard by Friday, May 30.
NISO Summary: This Technical Specification [...]
Because of the number of new things forwarded to us by Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO, I’m going to make some consolidated announcements of some of the more specialized documents, so as not to overwhelm everyone.
1. ISO/DIS 16245, Information and documentation — Boxes, file covers and other enclosures, made from cellulosic materials, for [...]
Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO, reports that the following ISO Committee Draft of an International Standard has been issued for ballot: ISO/CD 690, Information and documentation — Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources.
Cindy needs comments and vote recommendations by April 7.
Information provided about this standard by NISO:
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Summary: Provides guidance for establishing [...]
Also forwarded from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO, is the following ISO Committee Draft of an International Standard issued for ballot: ISO/FDIS 9707, Information and documentation — Statistics on the production and distribution of books, newspapers, periodicals and electronic publications.
Comments and vote recommendations from NISO members are due to NISO by March 7, 2008, [...]
Folks, this is the first of a rash of announcements about NISO votes and the solicitation of comments prior to those votes. Some of them have very short deadlines, unfortunately. I hope that the expressions of interest received on some of the earlier calls for comments continue! Although the following standard is particularly [...]
Cindy Hepfer, the ALA Representative to NISO, has notified us that the following ISO Draft International Standard has been issued for ballot:
ISO/DIS 10957, Information and documentation — International standard music number (ISMN)
Summary:
The International Standard Music Number (ISMN) was developed by and for the music publishing sector as a separate system to complement the International Standard [...]
Cindy Hepfer, ALA’s representative to NISO, has informed us that the following ISO TC46 Committee Draft International Standard in 3 parts has been issued for ballot:
ISO/CD 28560-1, Information and documentation — Data model for use of RFID in libraries — Part 1: General requirements and data elements
Summary:
Establishes an abstract model for the use of Radio [...]