The annual plenary meeting of ISO Technical Committee 46 Information-Documentation will be held in Pretoria (South Africa) from 22 to 26 May 2017 at the kind invitation of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS). The revision of ISO 15836 (Dublin Core), the publication of the revised ISO 5127 (Information and documentation – Vocabulary), the preservation of digital records will be among the main topics to be addressed during this meeting.

The ISSN International Centre at 2017 ABES Annual Conference

The ISSN International Centre will participate in the annual conference organized by the Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur (ABES) in Montpellier (France) from 10 to 11 May 2017. On May 12^th, the ISSN International Centre will be represented at the one-day annual meeting for managers of French regional centres specialized in serial identification (Centres SUDOC-PS) who will get a presentation about the current activities of the ISSN network.

An OAI-PMH set for ISSN data at the Norwegian ISSN national centre

Data exchange between the Norwegian ISSN national centre at the National Library in Oslo and the ISSN International Centre in Paris is now based (since March 2017) on the OAI-PMH protocol.

In this new framework, ISSN cataloguers in Norway directly produce ISSN records in the cataloguing environment of their institution; these records, as soon as they are validated by their system, are automatically exposed through a dedicated “ISSN set” in MarcXML (Marc 21) through the library OAI-PMH server.

This “ISSN set” is regularly harvested by the ISSN International Centre in order to feed directly the ISSN Register with the output.

This new workflow is similar to the one already set up last year at the German ISSN Centre at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) in Frankfurt and paves the way for more streamlined contributions to the ISSN Register from other countries of the ISSN network.