[open-bibliography] Inviting community engagement on building a bibliographic roadmap

Tue Jan 15 09:11:46 UTC 2013

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org> wrote:

>
>   I trust this will be of interest to this group.
>

It's of interest to me.  I don't know how they select participants (if at
all). We should probably do this as OKF effort -who is currently the OKFN
staff member for this - is it Joris? We should be reporting progress on
BibJSON, OpenBibliography generally and Bibserver/BibSoup

P.

>   I am not sure I will be able to make this but trust some of you will.
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from "Todd Carpenter (Gmail)" <tcarpenter at niso.org>
> -----
>
> From: "Todd Carpenter (Gmail)" <tcarpenter at niso.org>
> To: newsline at list.niso.org
> Subject: Inviting community engagement on building a bibliographic roadmap
>
> Good afternoon, NISO community,
>
> Last fall, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation generously awarded the National
> Information Standards Organization (NISO) with a grant to support an
> initiative that will develop a community roadmap toward a new bibliographic
> exchange environment.  This roadmap will help support movement toward a
> future of bibliographic information exchange ecosystem. The bibliographic
> roadmap initiative aims to bring together as diverse a set of stakeholders
> as possible to build agree around on a common development path for
> bibliographic information exchange.  Using a consensus process, NISO hopes
> to build agreement about the problems that we face, which are the best
> available solutions, and work toward coordinating community efforts.  The
> project is not trying to duplicate efforts already underway, nor is it
> trying to drive a particular agenda, nor support a single community
> project.     Through open virtual dialogue and an in-person meeting—again
> open and publicly accessible—, the initiative will ascertain the necessary
> elements of a bibliographic standards environment that are implementable,
> suit our global networked information environment, support data sharing,
> and are economically viable.
>
> Over the course of the next nine months, NISO will host one face-to-face
> meeting in the United States and several global webinars, as well as
> organize at least three working group efforts during the periods between
> webinars. These meetings will be conducted to explore priorities and
> coordinate the requirements of key communities including: libraries of all
> types including national libraries; technologists represented by
> organizations such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Dublin
> Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI); library system providers; as well as other
> international standards development organizations. The end result of this
> work will be a report that will identify exchange points where standards
> development is needed, and document suggested areas where functionality
> testing should be performed.  It should help pinpoint at a high level the
> development priorities and coordination points needed over the next 24-36
> months.
>
> NISO will be hosting an open community teleconference to launch this
> project on Thursday, January 17 at 9:00 ET (UTC -5:00) and we encourage
> community involvement in that meeting. The purpose of this call will be to
> introduce the community to this project, outline our goals, answer any
> questions and begin to map out planning the project and identify dates and
> locations for the in-person meeting that the Mellon Foundation has funded.
>  We expect the call will take about 60 minutes.
>
> Please use the following dial-in:
>   Toll-Free (US & Can) 1-877-375-2160
>   Conference ID: 767-11-246#
>  For a list of international dial-in numbers visit:
> https://ccimeet.tcconline.com/listNumbersByCode.action?confCode=76711246
>
> More information about the project can be found on the NISO website:
> http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/BibliographicRoadmap/  We will also record
> the call and will post the recoding to this page after the event.  You can
> also find an extract of the proposal describing the project in detail at
> that page.
>
> If you plan to attend, please send an RSVP to nisohq at niso.org prior to
> Thursday morning.
>
> We look forward to speaking with many of you on Thursday.
>
> With kindest regards,
>
> Todd Carpenter
> Executive Director, NISO
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> --
>
>   Cheers,
>
>   Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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