NISO

1
NISO

• Z39.50 Tutorial
• Lennie Stovel, RLG
• January 2000

2
What

• National Information Standards Organization
• Originally ANS committee Z39
• Headquarters Bethesda, Maryland
• http//www.niso.org

3
Why

• to identify, develop, disseminate, and
  maintain voluntary, consensus-based technical
  standards for managing information in a changing
  environment.

4
Who

• Membership
• Executive Director Pat HarrisChair Don
  Muccino, OCLC
• Board of Directors
• Standards Development Committee
• standards committees

5
How

• Standards development process/procedures
• Work items
• Ballots
• ANSI review

6
How, continued

• Maintenance agencies
• Publishing
• Workshops
• International activities
• ISO TC46
• ISO TC46/SC4

7
Current activities

• Dublin Core metadata
• Circulation interchange protocol
• Digital talking book
• Downloading
• Book Item and Component Identifier (BICI)
• Digital Object Identifier (DOI)