Creating Order Out of the Chaos
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Todd Carpenter gave a presentation on content distribution standards at the Council of Science Editors Conference on May 20, 2012. He discussed how NISO develops standards to reduce chaos in content distribution by bringing together publishers, libraries, and automation vendors. He provided examples of NISO standards like ISSN, DOI, and KBART that help identify and describe content. Carpenter emphasized that identifiers and metadata are key to standards and explained concepts like functional granularity. Overall, he highlighted NISO's role in developing interoperability standards to help distribute scientific content.
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- 1. Creating Order Out of the Chaos NISO Content Distribution Standards Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO Council of Science Editors Confernce May 20, 2012
- 2. @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
- 3. Standards are familiar, even if you don’t notice Image: DanTaylor Image: : Joel Washing
- 5. About • 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
- 6. NISO Portfolio • ISSN • Paper Permanence Where the library, • RFID in Libraries publishing and • OpenURL automation suppliers converge • DOI • SUSHI Greatest focus on • KBART interoperability • SERU
- 7. 32% Libraries/Library 35 % Publishers/Publishing Organizations! Organizations! 36 LSA Members ! (non-voting)! ANSI! ISO! Other SDOs! 33% Library Systems Suppliers, Publishing Vendors & Intermediaries! NISO’s Community
- 8. NISO Internationally Actively participate internationally with ISO, EDItEUR, IFLA, ICSTI, International STM Association, CODATA, UK Serials Group, LIBER, Standards Australia, IETF, ISO Registration Authorities
- 9. 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
- 10. Other Standards Organizations • 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
- 12. The Referent The thing being identified
- 13. The Identifier The string identifying the referent
- 14. The Metadata The data that describes the referent
- 15. An ID & its 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
- 17. Functional Granularity You ID an item at the level at which it makes sense for your business needs to identify that item
- 18. A lesson in functional granularity
- 19. How do these things apply in my life? Journal-specific standards
- 20. Presentation and Identification of E-Journals PIE-J
- 21. JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite (formerly NLM DTD)
- 22. Journal Article Supplemental Materials Project
- 23. Indexed Discovery Services NISO Open Discovery initiative
- 24. Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (SERU)
- 25. Issues we are facing (or about to face) with journals standards
- 26. Authorship ----- Disambiguation Contributorship Roles
- 27. Large Scale Data-Driven Science Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers manipulate and explore massive datasets.
- 28. Science data isn’t what it used to be Image: Walters Art Museum Image: Domenico, Caron, Davis, et al.
- 29. We all know how to cite something, right?
- 30. How do you cite a data set in a journal? Source: Citations for SEER Databases! Source: International Polar Year! Source: Global Land Cover Facility! Source: The Economist ! Source: ICPSR!
- 31. Thank you! Todd Carpenter, Executive Director tcarpenter@niso.org National Information Standards Organization (NISO) One North Charles Street, Suite 1905 Baltimore, MD 21201 USA +1 (301) 654-2512 www.niso.org