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Creating Order Out of the Chaos
NISO Content Distribution
Standards
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISOCouncil of Science Editors Confernce
May 20, 2012
@TAC_NISO Twitter Highlights
• So excited about this panel on reducing chaos at #CSE2012 today
• Very funny & convenient @TAC_NISO pre-tweeted presentation. Slides to come! #CSE2012
• #NISO = 1/3 Publishers, 1/3 Libraries, 1/3 automation vendors - where communities converge to develop standards #CSE2012
• ISO standards community is complex - lots of players. Weird numbering scheme. #NISO manages identifiers subcommittee #CSE2012
• Key Elements of Identification: Referent (thing that is ID’d), the identifier (string identifying referent) & metadata (describes the attributes of the thing) #CSE2012
• Are 2 copies of @The_Economist the same thing? Yet they have the same #ISSN More to IDs than just the classification. #functionalgranularity #standards #CSE2012
• More information about Journal Archiving Tag Suite JATS - http://bit.ly/KoqIJ9
• More information about #NISO PIE-J project: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/piej #CSE2012
• More information about #NISO Supplemental Matierals project: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental #CSE2012
• More information about #NISO KBART project: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart #CSE2012
• More information about #NISO SERU project: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/seru #CSE2012
• Earlier this week, there was a great meeting in Boston on scholarly authorship. Check out #scholarlyattrib #cse2012
• More information about ORCID project is at http://about.orcid.org or follow @ORCID_Org
• Slides will be posted to SlideShare
Image: DanTaylor Image: : Joel Washing
Standards are familiar, even if you don’t notice
The Community
• Non-profit industry trade association accredited by ANSI
• Mission of developing and maintaining technical standards related to information, documentation, discovery and distribution of published materials and media
• Volunteer driven organization: 400+ spread out across the world
About
• ISSN
• Paper Permanence
• RFID in Libraries
• OpenURL
• DOI
• SUSHI
• KBART
• SERU
Where the library, publishing and automation suppliers converge
Greatest focus on interoperability
NISO Portfolio
NISO’s Community
35 % Publishers/Publishing Organizations !
32% Libraries/Library Organizations !
36 LSA Members !(non-voting) !
33% Library Systems Suppliers, Publishing Vendors & Intermediaries !
ISO !
ANSI !
Other SDOs !
Actively participate internationally with ISO, EDItEUR, IFLA, ICSTI, International STM Association, CODATA,
UK Serials Group, LIBER, Standards Australia, IETF, ISO Registration Authorities
NISO Internationally
Technical Committee (TC) 46 Information & Documentation
Subcommittees (SC): 4 – Systems Interoperability
8 – Performance Measurement 9 – Identification & Description
11 – Records Management
NISO manages the Secretariat of ISO TC 46, SC 9
• EDItEUR - ONIX, EDI, ARROW
• Book Industry Study Group - BISAC
• IDEAlliance - Magazine industry, PRISM
• Library of Congress - MARC, PREMIS, SRU/SRW
• ALA - AACR2, RDA
• W3C - html5, CSS3, mobile
• IDPF - EPUB, E-books
• OASIS - XML Standards
• IMSGlobal - Learning Management Systems
Other Standards Organizations
Key Concepts in Standardization
The thing being identified
The Referent
The string identifying the referent
The Identifier
The data that describes the referent
The Metadata
• Identifiers can be but are not necessarily names (often better if they aren’t)
• IDs can be but need not be human-readable. They also may or may not be human understandable.
• Metadata describe attributes of the referent
• Not every attribute need be described
An ID & its metadata
Functional Granularity
You ID an item at the level at which it makes sense for your business
needs to identify that item
Functional Granularity
A lesson in functional granularity
How do these things apply in my life?
Journal-specific standards
Presentation and Identification of
E-Journals
PIE-J
JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite
(formerly NLM DTD)
Journal Article Supplemental Materials
Project
Indexed Discovery Services
NISO Open Discovery
initiative
Shared Electronic Resource
Understanding (SERU)
Issues we are facing (or about to face)
with journals standards
Authorship-----
Disambiguation
Contributorship Roles
Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers manipulate and explore massive datasets.
Large Scale Data-Driven Science
Image: Walters Art Museum Image: Domenico, Caron, Davis, et al.
Science data isn’t what it used to be
We all know how to cite something, right?
Source: Citations for SEER Databases !
Source: Global Land Cover Facility!
Source: International Polar Year !
Source: ICPSR!
Source: The Economist !
How do you cite a data set in a journal?
Thank you!
Todd Carpenter, Executive [email protected]
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)One North Charles Street, Suite 1905
Baltimore, MD 21201 USA+1 (301) 654-2512
www.niso.org