[open-bibliography] Inviting community engagement on building a bibliographic roadmap
Karen Coyle
kcoyle at kcoyle.net
Tue Jan 15 18:35:23 UTC 2013
Jonathan, thanks for reminding me of the response to FoBC - that will be
a good one to reference!
kc
On 1/15/13 8:50 AM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Thanks Karen!
>
> It would obviously be wonderful if we could build on existing work by
> this group such as the Principles on Open Bibliographic Data [1].
>
> And also earlier work, such as the response to the Library of Congress
> that we drafted with the late Aaron Swartz:
>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2007/12/19/response-to-the-future-of-bibliographic-control-draft-from-the-library-of-congress/
>
> J.
>
> [1] http://openbiblio.net/principles/
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net
> <mailto:kcoyle at kcoyle.net>> wrote:
>
> 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:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Thomas Krichel
> <krichel at openlib.org <mailto:krichel at openlib.org>
> <mailto:krichel at openlib.org <mailto: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 <mailto:tcarpenter at niso.org>
> <mailto:tcarpenter at niso.org <mailto:tcarpenter at niso.org>>> -----
>
>
> From: "Todd Carpenter (Gmail)" <tcarpenter at niso.org
> <mailto:tcarpenter at niso.org>
> <mailto:tcarpenter at niso.org <mailto:tcarpenter at niso.org>>>
> To: newsline at list.niso.org <mailto:newsline at list.niso.org>
> <mailto: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>
> <tel: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
> <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/
> <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>
> <mailto: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://openlib.org/home/krichel>
> http://authorprofile.org/pkr1
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