[open-bibliography] Inviting community engagement on building a bibliographic roadmap
Matthew Dovey
m.dovey at ceridwen.com
Tue Jan 15 19:07:33 UTC 2013
I had been intending to ask whether LC were involved in this work, and how
it related to their bibliographic framework activity.
Matthew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-bibliography-
> bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
> Sent: 15 January 2013 18:35
> To: Jonathan Gray
> Cc: List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
> Subject: Re: [open-bibliography] Inviting community engagement on building
> a bibliographic roadmap
>
> 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-bibliographi
> > c-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=76
> 711246
> >
> >
> <https://ccimeet.tcconline.com/listNumbersByCode.action?confCode=76711
> > 246>
> >
> > 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
> > skype:
> > thomaskrichel
> >
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