The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a new Recommended Practice on Access License and Indicators (NISO RP-22-2015). This recommendation defines metadata to be used to indicate free-to-read content and a link to license terms for the use/re-use of that content.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a revision to the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol (ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2014). The SUSHI standard defines an automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic resource usage data utilizing a web services framework that can replace the user-mediated collection of usage data reports.

The Architecture Committee of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has issued a NISO Strategic Directions document that identifies the trends and emerging themes that will direct the future development portfolios of standards and recommended practices. NISO continues to structure the standards portfolio around the core areas of Content and Collection Management, Business Information, and Discovery and Delivery.

ProQuest affiliate Bowker will now include the ISO-certified International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) in its ONIX 2.1 data feeds to retailers such as Barnes & Noble, as well as the major search engines, ensuring that authors are accurately identified in search and discovery.

The Registering Researchers Task Group wrote a report that summarizes the benefits and trade-offs of emerging approaches to the problem of incomplete national authority files. The report presents functional requirements and recommendations for six stakeholders (among them are librarians, aggregators and publishers). The broader impact of this work will be to make it easier for researchers and institutions to more accurately measure their scholarly output through the use of persistent identifiers.

The IFLA Satellite Meeting 2014 dedicated to RDA was held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 13 August 2014.

The presentations are now available online.

The summer issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ), published by NISO is dedicated to the Open Access movement. The articles contain a wealth of insights from a wide variety of viewpoints—publishers, funders, universities, intermediaries, standards bodies, and open access experts.

More than 150 participants from 29 countries attended the IFLA Satellite Meeting RDA – Resource Description and Access – status and perspectives 2014 on August 13th that was organized by IFLA’s Cataloguing Section at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main.

Chaired by Hanne Hörl Hansen and Miriam Säfström a range of interesting presentations was given by prominent speakers delivering first-hand information both on the background of RDA in general (Chris Oliver) and the current status and plans of the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) (Gordon Dunsire). The Chair of the European RDA Interest Group (RDA), Verena Schaffner, presented the activities of this group. Speakers from the United Kingdom (Thurstan Young), the RDA implementation project in the German-speaking community (Renate Behrens-Neumann), the Netherlands (Daniel van Spanje) and the Arab region (Ossama Mahmoud) reported of the implementation activities in their respective libraries or regions and/or plans to do so. A speaker from France explained the reasons why they chose another way (Francoise Leresche). Presentations on authority data and RDA (Brigitte Wiechmann and Sarah Hartmann), and on formats for encoding RDA data (Sally McCallum and Gordon Dunsire) completed the picture. Last but very important, the audience learned what is necessary when planning to translate RDA (James Henelly) and what will be the future strategies for RDA (Simon Edwards).

The purpose is to identify links between related identified entities (digital objects) in the field of information and documentation. Linked entities can be media resources, humans, and corporations, or even abstract content (times, places) that can be identified uniquely. The link model of ISLI includes three elements: a source, a target, and the link between them.

The goal is a combined rendering of different representations of rich media and a wider use of resources, as it provides interoperability.

The International Standard Link Identifier (ISLI) was approved in August at ISO. The call for candidates for the registration authority for ISO 17316 (ISLI) closed on Sept. 1st, 2014.

The initial draft of the white paper has been presented at ALA annual conference in Las Vegas (June 27-July 1st, 2014), along with an outline of areas where recommended practices and standards are needed.