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Standards Committee Activities 2014

(Last Updated 12/18/2014)

  1. Voted Abstain on ISO/DIS 17316, Information and documentation – International standard link identifier (ISLI)
  2. Voted YES with Comments on New Work Item Proposal TC46/ SC8/N429, Information and documentation – International archives statistics

Commnents:

We look forward to seeing the output of this work – if done correctly it could have a major impact on statistics archive

Comments provided by Mark Needleman

  1. Voted YES on Appointment of New Chairperson of ISO/TC 46, Information and documentation
  2. Voted YES on Appointment of Mr Peeter Päll as Convenor TC46/WG3 “Conversion of written languages
  3. Voted YES on Proposed New Work Item: Standardization of U.S. Profile of ISO 3166
  4. Voted YES on ISO/DTS 28560-4, Information and documentation – RFID in libraries – Part 4: Encoding of RFID data elements based on rules from ISO/IEC 15962 in an RFID tag with partitioned memory
  5. Voted REVISE on Systematic Review of ISO 11940:1998 (vers 3), Information and documentation –Transliteration of Thai- with the following comments:

ASIST supports the comments provided by ALA in 2008

Comments provided by Mark Needleman

  1. Voted REVISE on Systematic Review of ISO 999:1996 (Ed 2, vers 3). Information and documentation — Guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes – with the following comments:

ASIST supports the comments provided by NFAIS

Comments provided bt Margie Hlava (through comments she submitted for NFAIS)

  1. Voted WITHDRAW on Review of ISO 5963:1985 (vers 4), Documentation — Methods for examining documents, determining their subjects, and selecting indexing terms – with the following comments:

ASIST agrees with the comments provided by other organizations saying the standard should be withdrawn

Comments provide by Mark Needleman

  1. Voted REVISE on Systematic Review of ISO 15706-1:2002 (vers 2), Information and documentation — International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) — Part 1: Audiovisual work identifier – with the following comments:

ASIST agrees with the comments from the IDF regarding the need to revise the standard to take account of market developments since the standard was last affirmed

Comments provided by Mark Needleman

  1. Voted CONFIRM on Systematic Review of ISO 23081-2:2009, Information and documentation — Managing metadata for records — Part 2: Conceptual and implementation issues
  2. Voted CONFIRM on Systematic Review of ISO 11800:1998 (vers 3), Information and documentation — Requirements for binding materials and methods used in the manufacture of books
  3. Voted CONFIRM on Systematic Review of ISO 14416:2003 (vers 2), Information and documentation — Requirements for binding of books, periodicals, serials and other paper documents for archive and library use — Methods and materials
  4. Voted YES on the Establishment of a Joint Working Group to Review/Revise ISO 639, Codes for the representation of names of languages
  5. Voted YES on ISO/FDIS 28560-1, Information and documentation – RFID in libraries – Part 1: Data elements and general guidelines for implementation
  6. Voted YES on ISO/FDIS 28560-2, Information and documentation – RFID in libraries – Part 2: Encoding of RFID data elements based on rules from ISO/IEC
  7. Voted YES on ISO/FDIS 28560-3, Information and documentation – RFID in libraries – Part 3: Fixed length encoding
  8. Voted YES to Advance ISO/CD 15489-1, Information and documentation – Records management – Part 1: General – to Draft International Standard Status
  9. Voted YES to Approve NISO Z39.99-201x, ResourceSync Framework Specification v.1.0 as an Ammerican National Standard – with the following comment:

We understand that the nature of the problem being addressed may require the complexity built in to this standard – but have concerns about how difficult it may make building implementations. Perhaps a non-normative implementation guide could be created to assist implementer’s in building implementations since the sheer size and complexity of the standard may make that difficult by just using the standards document itself

Comment provided by Mark Needleman

  1. Voted NO on the Approval of Moving ISO/DIS 5127, Information and documentation — Vocabulary – to International Standard Status – with the following comments:

The standard did not seem to include other types of controlled vocabularies
defined in NISO Z39.19 such as pick list (or list) and synonym rings. I
also do not see RDF and related new things (they do have XML, which is
just a syntax, but no other RDF syntax). Therefore We think the best
approach for the standard is to look at W3C Glossaries and incorporate more.

Another resource that could be used is Metadata Registry
http://metadataregistry­.org/. It included many concepts developed recent
years, such as the entities defined by FRBR, FRSAD, etc.ntn

Comments provided by Marcia Zeng

  1. Voted YES on New Work Item Proposal TC46/SC10/N23, Information and documentation – Holdings Management – with the following comment:

We agree that there is a need for a new standard in this area

Comment provided by Mark Needleman

  1. Voted YES on New Work Item Proposal TC46/SC10/N24, Information and documentation – Management of the environmental conditions for cultural collections – with the following comment:

This has the possibility of producing an important standard in an area where standards are sadly missing

Comment provided by Mark Needleman

  1. Voted REVISE on Systematic Review of ISO 21047:2009, Information and documentation — International Standard Text Code (ISTC) – with the following comment:

ASIST agrees with the comments provided that the ISTC needs to be revised to make it more usable

Comment provided by Mark Needleman with input from other members of the ASIST Standards Committee

  1. Voted CONFIRM on Systematic Review of ISO 6630:1986 Documentation — Bibliographic control characters
  2. Voted CONFIRM on Systematic Review of ISO 20775:2009, Information and documentation — Schema for holdings information
  3. Voted CONFIRM on Systematic Review of ISO 23950:1998, Information and documentation — Information retrieval (Z39.50) — Application service definition and protocol specification
  4. Voted REVISE on Systematic Review of ISO 15836:2009, Information and documentation — The Dublin Core metadata element set – with the following Comment:

We Agree with the comments about Bringing the ISO version of this standard up-to-date so that it matches the ANSI/NISO version and the DCMI Recommendation

Comment provided by Mark Needleman and Timothy Dickey

  1. Voted YES on the Nomination of Peter Constable as the Convenor for TC46/SC4 and TC37/SC2 JWG to revise ISO 639 standards
  2. Voted YES on SC11/WG8 Title/Scope Change and Leadership Nominations
  3. Voted YES on the publication of the following ISO Interlibrary Loan Standards:

ISO/FDIS 10160, Interlibrary Loan Application Service Definition

ISO/FDIS 10161-1, Interlibrary Loan Application Protocol Specification — Part 1: Protocol specification

ISO/FDIS 10161-2, Interlibrary Loan Application Protocol Specification — Part 2: Protocol implementation conformance statement (PICS) proforma

This is to allow them to remain active while the new ISO Interlibrary Loan Standard ISO 18626 is being implemented

  1. Voted for MikeTeets (OCLC) in the NISO Board of Directors Vice Chair Election (2014-2015)
  2. Voted for the Following People for the NISO Board of Directors 2014-2015 Term:

Oliver Pesch (EBSCO)
Barbara Preece (Loyola Notre Dame Library)
Jabin White (ITHAKA)

  1. Voted YES on Advancement of ISO/CD 11799, Information and documentation – Document storage requirements for archive and library materials – to Draft International Standard (DIS) State
  2. Voted YES on NISO Proposed New Work Item: Transfer Code of Practice Maintenance and Next Steps
  3. Voted YES on ISO/FDIS 17316, Information and documentation – International standard link identifier (ISLI) to be published as an ISO Standard
  4. Had NO comments to provide to ISO on Preliminary draft for comments ISO/DIS 15489-1, Information and documentation – Records management – Part 1: Concepts and principles
  5. Voted CONFIRM on the 5 Year Systematic Review of ISO 8459:2009, Information and documentation – Bibliographic data element directory for use in data exchange and enquiry
  6. Voted REVISE on the 5 Year Systematic Review of ISO 28500:2009, Information and documentation – WARC file format
  7. Voted AFFIRM on the Approval of ISO/CD 18461, Information and documentation – International museum statistics as a Draft International Standard (DIS)
  8. Voted NO on Proposed Changes to Terms of reference for the maintenance of ISO 3166 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions

Vote changed from YES to NO at the request of NISO based on comments from other NISO members

  1. Voted AFFIRMATIVE on Approval of Nomination of Stella Griffith as New TC46/SC9 Chairperson
  2. Voted NO on ISO New Work Item: International Library Item Identifier (ILII) – with the following Comment:

It’s unclear to us given the number of identifier standards already in use in libraries why another one is needed. Its also unclear that that this standard, if created, would see widespread adoption.

Comment Provided by Mark Needleman

  1. Voted AFFIRMATIVE on Approval of NISO Z39-93-201x, The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol (version 1.7)

Voted REVISE on Systematic Review of ISO 10957:2009, Information and documentation — International standard music number (ISMN) with the following comment:

We agree with the ISMN and NISO recommendation to revise this standard

  1. Voted CONFIRM on Systematic Review of ISO 10324:1997, Information and documentation – Holdings Statements – Summary level
  2. Voted CONFIRM on Review of ISO 4:1997, Information and documentation — Rules for the abbreviation of title words and titles – with the following comment:

One comment has to do with English grammar. They use “which” when mostly (if not all places) “that”should be used.

We guess it’s ISO terminology, but some of the definitions seem to be dense. Also, some of the abbreviations seem kind of ridiculous, but again, we guess ISO has used many of these for years. Even with a list, we think it would be difficult to figure out the full title to be able to,look it up in a catalog.

Comment provided by Dorothy McGarry

  1. Voted YES on NISO Proposed New Work Item: Development of Standards for Alternative Metrics
  2. Voted ABSTAIN on Approval of the International Information Content Industry Association (ICIA) as the Registration Authority for ISO 17316, International Standard Link Identifier (ISIL) – with the following comment:

Since ASIST voted NO on the actual standard, it didnt seem to matter what we voted on the registration authority for it – ABSTAIN seemed like a logical choice

  1. Voted YES on Review of ANSI/NISO Z39.50-2003 (R2009), Information Retrieval: Application Service Definition & Protocol Specification – conversion to stabilized maintenance

Stabilized maintenance removes a standard from the requirement for five-year periodic reviews. It is used for standards that address mature technology or practices and are not likely to require a revision.

  1. Voted YES on Review of ANSI/NISO Z39.89-2003 (R2009), The U.S. National Z39.50 Profile for Library Applications -conversion to stabilized maintenance

Stabilized maintenance removes a standard from the requirement for five-year periodic reviews. It is used for standards that address mature technology or practices and are not likely to require a revision.