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

Tue Jan 15 15:33:00 UTC 2013

NISO has invited a group to participate, and I am on that group. There 
are folks from W3C, DC, BL, JISC, OCLC, Zepheira, ex-Talis, etc. But as 
I said in a note to Jim, I don't think they have anyone representing the 
academic community so I can suggest that someone is added for the 
Bibserver/Bibsoup view. The OKF view might also be of interest, so I 
will bring that up as well -- that it's not just the technical aspects 
but also the social and legal ones that matter with bibliographic data.

(NISO hasn't yet set up an email list nor a wiki space for this project, 
although I keep pushing for them to do so, to make the deliberations as 
public as possible. Unfortunately, NISO does not work like W3C or DC, 
with all info in a public space. I have allies, though, who will help 
push for that.)

This NISO project is based on an effort of mine, with a vendor 
collaborator. We wrote an initial grant proposal. We weren't able to get 
a planning grant on our own so it morphed into a NISO grant. My original 
purpose was to make sure that a larger community of interest was 
involved in the future of bibliographic data since it is, by its nature, 
data that is used and shared widely, not just within the library 
community. It has taken over a year to get to this point, though. I hope 
it is not too late.

kc

On 1/15/13 1:11 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org
> <mailto:krichel at openlib.org>> wrote:
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>        I trust this will be of interest to this group.
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>
> 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.
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>
>
>        I am not sure I will be able to make this but trust some of you will.
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>     ----- Forwarded message from "Todd Carpenter (Gmail)"
>     <tcarpenter at niso.org <mailto:tcarpenter at niso.org>> -----
>
>     From: "Todd Carpenter (Gmail)" <tcarpenter at niso.org
>     <mailto:tcarpenter at niso.org>>
>     To: newsline at list.niso.org <mailto: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 <tel: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
>     <mailto: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
>     http://authorprofile.org/pkr1
>                                                     skype: thomaskrichel
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