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 draft standard, ISO/DIS 26162, Systems to manage terminology, knowledge and content – Design, implementation and maintenance of terminology management systems. This ballot is from TC37 / SC3 (Terminology and other language and content resources / Systems to manage terminology, knowledge and content).“ “ISO/DIS 26162 is one of a family of standards to facilitate the exchange of terminological data. This standard gives guidance on choosing the relevant data categories, designing and implementing a data model and a user interface of a terminology management system (TMS) with a view to the intended user group. The phases described…
Spam update
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.
Spam Cleanup
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.
Metadata about metadata
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 you’re thinking that this description isn’t very helpful, you’re not alone! I had, in fact, heard about this standard via another channel, and it sounds like one of those superficially boring but actually quite critical efforts, particularly if one thinks that “packaging†and sharing metadata in future is going to be quite different than it is in our current environment. This is essentially administrative or meta-metadata we’re talking about. As usual, access to the proposed standard is only available by applying directly to Cindy (HSLcindy@buffalo.edu) –please don’t forget to confirm your ALA membership. Her deadline…
RFID Balloting–last chance for change
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.†Part 1 establishes an abstract data model for the use of RFID tags. Second: “ISO/DIS 28560- 2, RFID in librairies –Part 2: Encoding based on ISO/IEC 15962.†Part 2 deals with the encoding rules based on ISO/IEC 15962, which uses an object identifier structure to identify data elements. Third: “ISO/DIS 28560-3, RFID in librairies– Part 3: Fixed length encoding.†Part 3 specifies how to encode a subset of data elements (taken from the total set of data elements described in part 1) in a straightforward way in a basic block on the RFID tag. Cindy…
Data interchange standards–take note!
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 8459-2, ISO 8459-3, ISO 8459-4 and ISO 8459-5. It specifies and describes data elements required in the interchange of data between bibliographic systems (i.e. terminal or browser to computer or computer to computer).” Cindy adds: “This is the last ballot prior to publication. A Yes vote cannot contain any substantive comments (editorial comments are acceptable). If you have substantive comments, you should vote No.“ There’s a relatively short window for input to Cindy to provide advice for voting on this—she needs to have something in hand by Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. Those ALA members interested…
LITA Publications Committee
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 and Juan Carlos Rodriguez), Board liaison Mark Beatty, ITAL editor Marc Truitt, LITA Executive Director Mary Taylor and me. Given the extent of his advance comments, I’d consider committee member Paul Bracke to be a “virtual attendee.” Topics: ITAL: The December issue is out, enough articles are on hand for the March and June issues, and probably enough for September. New submissions continue to arrive–and, as is typical of a high-value journal, fewer than half of the submissions are accepted. The ITALica blog hasn’t had a lot of activity to date, but it also doesn’t…
Top Tech Trends – Midwinter 2009 Audio edition
This time around for Top Tech Trends we were able to stream the video, but we weren’t ignoring the audio either! Here’s just an MP3 of the session, edited a tiny bit for length and able to be loaded on to your favorite portable audio player. I apologize in advance for too much keypress noise on the recording. I was monitoring the sound, but couldn’t hear the fact that my typing was so loud! Sorry if that annoys anyone. In any case, here we are: LITA Top Tech Trends from ALA Midwinter 2009!
LITA Education Committee Midwinter 2009 Report
We will be posting our full minutes on the LITA Wiki in a bit. Mandy Havert and I wanted to share a brief summary of the Education committee’s work at Midwinter. Important stuff first – we are pursuing speakers for educational programming opportunities (i.e Regional Institutes, ALA Programs, Preconferences, and online course/webinar/tutorial/etc. development). The following topics were identified as top priorities (from liaison reports with LITA IGs/Committees and a survey done 18 months ago). Open Source Mobile Tech RDA Extensible Catalog SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Semantic Web If you are interest in working with us to develop an educational program in one of these areas, please contact the chairs: David Ward dh-ward@illinois.edu Mandy Havert mhavert@nd.edu You’ll notice some similarities with what is going on at LITA Forum and other LITA activities – one of our goals is to look for ways to take popular/well rated topics/speakers/programs and develop additional educational…
LITA Town Meeting Update
I want to thank everyone who participated in this years LITA Town Hall meeting and remind you that you can continue to participate on Twitter. I will continue to follow #litath09, the tag assigned to the Town Meeting, so if you want to add to the conversation please do. I’m listening. Here are the questions we asked during the breakout session: What makes LITA unique inside ALA and in the greater community? Who else is filling the same role as LITA right now? What areas of IT are not be addressed in the community? How do other organizations see LITA? How can LITA work with other organizations? What can LITA learn from peer organizations? We had 12 tables in the room so 2 tables discussed each question. I posted pictures of the notes from each table and they can be found on Flickr. I want to thank the following guests…