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SLA Standards Update

. Thank you!What's up with StandardsWhat's up in NISONew directionsStandards agenda. Thank You SLA Standards network!. Your response last fall was terrificIt brought the attention of SLA's top leadership to standardsThe future of libraries will be determined in the technology playing field an

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SLA Standards Update

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    1. SLA Standards Update! Pat Harris pharris@niso.org

    2. Thank you! What’s up with Standards What’s up in NISO New directions Standards agenda

    3. Thank You SLA Standards network! Your response last fall was terrific It brought the attention of SLA’s top leadership to standards The future of libraries will be determined in the technology playing field and standards will be key determinants

    4. What’s up with standards Rate of technical change is accelerating Rate of non-technical change is accelerating Importance of IT standards is increasing

    5. What does this mean? User/Consumer: standards are more important (even if they are still invisible) Companies in this marketplace: standards are more strategic Standards developer: if you can’t do it right someone else will.

    6. The Standards World A period of unprecedented change Late-1980s sea change Rise and proliferation of consortia and non-traditional standards organizations More competitive environment

    7. NISO’s challenge External “big guys”- W3C, IETF Immediate challenges: DLF, VIEWS New guys are “eating our lunch” Google Scholar A9’s OpenSearch Amazon’s search engine

    8. Strategic Examination March 2004 -Survey of NISO members, “thought leaders” June 2004 - Blue Ribbon Panel chaired by Clifford Lynch On NISO website - link from homepage: www.niso.org

    9. Strategic Directions and Implementation Steps Define a “Framework” that will examine the standards landscape and help identify gaps Standards development process Consensus pools Stabilized Standards: Streamline the family of active standards

    10. Implementation Activities Focus more attention and support in the upfront activities: The “think -through” that leads to a standards Pre-standards work: Workshops, white papers, community consensus building

    11. Implementation Activities Lighter weight, speedier process: Registration Draft Standards for Trial Use Incorporating testing and trial implementation into the development cycle, seeking out early implementors

    12. NISO’s Standards Development Agenda Wrapping things up: Revision of Z39.19, Controlled Vocabularies OpenURL ISBN, ISSN

    13. Standards Development Agenda - In Progress MetaSearch Initiative Why: Libraries need the ability to unify searching of heterogeneous sources that apply to a specific audience and/or purpose Access management, Search, Service and Collection Description

    14. MetaSearch Results- September 2005 NISO XML Metasearch Gateway Best Practice for Authentication based on an evaluation and ranking of authentication approaches

    15. Standards Development Agenda - Incubation Stage Rights Expression Identifiers for digital content RFID - Radio frequency identification

    16. How to be a part of the standards action: Be a member of the SLA Standards Committee Subscribe to NISO’s monthly e-letter Newsline Talk about standards with the companies you do business with

    17. How to be a part of the standards action: Support NISO as a Voting Member

    18. The stakes are high. . . . Ken Jennings reminded the members of the Utah Information Technology Association: “No piece of information is trivial”

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