National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

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In the first phase of the NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics Project (July 2013 through June 2014), three in-person meetings were held and 30 in-person interviews conducted. The goal was to collect input from all relevant stakeholder groups, summarize the discussion in this white paper, and identify…

« … Le Niso a donc  entamé une démarche de normalisation des indicateurs de type altmetrics sur les productions scientifiques. Il propose un livre blanc (17 pages) ouvert aux commentaires jusqu’au 18 juillet 2014 (en anglais). Les enjeux  sont entre autres ;

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« La NISO a publié le 7 avril 2014 une version révisée de KBART qui détaille les recommandations pour le formatage des métadonnées et leur échange entre les fournisseurs de contenu (éditeurs, agrégateurs, etc.) et les développeurs de bases de connaissance.

La première version, parue en 2010,…

« Baltimore, MD – October 17, 2013 – The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of the Fall 2013 issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) with a special theme of Data Curation. Interest in the topic of data curation has increased greatly as many governments and funding organizations have mandated…

 » The National Information Standards Organization and UKSG announce the release of a draft for public comment of a revision to the Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Recommended Practice. Issued in 2010, the original recommended practice provided all parties in the information supply chain with straightforward guidance about…

 » … The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members have approved a new project to develop recommended practices for Packaging and Exchanging Serial Content. Many different organizations—libraries, archives, indexing services, content aggregators, publishers, and content creators—need to exchange and work with digital files that make up serial content. Generally,…

 » … The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces a new two-phase project to study, propose, and develop community-based standards or recommended practices in the field of alternative metrics. Assessment of scholarship is a critical component of the research process, impacting everything from which projects get funded to who…

 » The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of a new recommended practice, Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics (IOTA): Recommendations for Link Resolver Providers (NISO RP-21-2013). These recommendations are the result of a three-year study performed by the NISO IOTA Working Group in which millions of OpenURLs were analyzed and…

 » The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of maintenance revisions of two widely used standards: The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2012) and The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol (ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2013). Both standards were revised to make very minor updates. The Dublin Core standard defines fifteen metadata…

« La National Information Standards Organization (NISO) lance une initiative dont le but est de développer une norme pour les métadonnées liées au Libre Accès. L’objectif du groupe de travail, qui va être mis en place, est de clarifier les différentes appellations utilisées par les éditeurs…