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NISO Launches Discovery to Delivery, Content & Collection Committees

July 24, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS

 
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The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) created a Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee and Content and Collection Management Topic Committee.

The Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee will address issues regarding the finding and distribution of information by and to users, including Open Uniform Resource Locator (URL), Metasearch, interface design and web services.

In addition to tracking standards development nationally and internationally that is related to its topic areas, the new Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee will identify what additional work would fill gaps in the standards landscape.

"The Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee will deal with the outward face of the work done within the information community," said Mike Teets, committee chair and vice president, OCLC Global Product Architecture.

"With the growing demands of a broadly information-literate world, the focus of standards shifts from more simple vertical standards to broadly interoperable environments.

"Our standards must address the needs of interoperating within, but possibly more importantly outside of, our traditional communities. The committee's primary role will be analyzing needs and setting a path toward a standards-supported, interoperable user environment."

The Content and Collection Management Topic Committee will address issues regarding developing, describing, providing access to and maintaining content items and collections.

Specific areas of coverage include Dublin Core, library binding, storage area networks (SANs) and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.

"The CCM committee is responsible for some of the core standards, protocols and identifiers in our industry - ranging from [International Standard Serial Numbers] ISSNs to Dublin Core to the strength of steel shelving," said Ted Koppel, committee chair and Verde product manager for Ex Libris.

"The library world looks to standards as the basis for bibliographic control and exchange, as well in many other functional areas. Our role is to analyze the present and help guide the future by ensuring the relevance and currency of appropriate standards."

Source: National Information Standards Organization (NISO).

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