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Revising ANSI/NISO Z39.19

Revising ANSI/NISO Z39.19. Updates for the 21 st Century. Incentive for the Revision. Difficult for non-lexicographers to understand Focused on construction and maintenance Limited to document indexing Limited to print products Outdated technology. NISO’s Goals for the Revision.

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Revising ANSI/NISO Z39.19

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  1. Revising ANSI/NISO Z39.19 Updates for the 21st Century

  2. Incentive for the Revision • Difficult for non-lexicographers to understand • Focused on construction and maintenance • Limited to document indexing • Limited to print products • Outdated technology

  3. NISO’s Goals for the Revision • Provide a better, more inclusive way to represent content • Take into account a changing audience as well as a vastly different information environment • Increasing need for interoperability and sharing across applications

  4. Support for the Revision • The H.W. Wilson Company • The Getty Foundation • National Library of Medicine.

  5. The Committee • Vivian Bliss Microsoft • Carol Brent ProQuest • John Dickert U.S. Department of Defense, DTIC • Lynn El-Hoshy Library of Congress • Emily Fayen MuseGlobal Inc. • Patricia Harpring Getty Foundation • Stephen Hearn American Library Association • Marjorie M.K. Hlava Access Innovations, Inc. • Sabine Kuhn Chemical Abstracts Service • Pat Kuhr The H.W. Wilson Company • Diane McKerlie DMA Consulting • Peter Morville Semantic Studios • Stuart Nelson National Library of Medicine • Diane Vizine-Goetz OCLC, Inc. • Marcia Lei Zeng Special Libraries Association

  6. Major changes in the Revised standard • Expand the scope beyond thesaurus to include controlled vocabularies • Make the standard-more accessible to users • Explain important concepts • Explain principles of vocabulary control • Expand beyond the abstracting and indexing (A&I) applications

  7. Sections • Introduction, • Scope • Referenced Standards • Definitions, Abbreviations, and Acronyms. • Comprehensive discussion on controlled vocabularies, their purpose, concepts, principles, and structure • Rules and guidelines for term choice, scope, and form. • Compound terms • Types of relationships that may be defined between and/or among terms in a controlled vocabulary. • Display formats • Interoperability. • Construction, testing, maintenance, and management systems for controlled vocabularies

  8. Major changes • Document to Content Object • Descriptor to Term • Thesauri to Controlled Vocabularies • Lists • Synonym Rings • Taxonomies • Thesauri • Display formats • Interoperability

  9. Z39.19 -- 2005 • The Standard is available for download at http://www.niso.org/standards/index.html • Questions: efayen@netzero.net

  10. For the Next Revision • Coordinate work with British and ISO standards • Work on Interoperability and multilingual issues • Work on crosswalks

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