<div dir="ltr">Baltimore, MD - June 19, 2017 - The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) seeks comments on a new draft Technical Report, <a href="http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/18054/TR-06-201x_Issues_in_Vocabulary_Management.pdf">Issues in Vocabulary Management</a>.
This document is one outcome from the NISO Bibliographic Roadmap
Development Project, which was conducted beginning in 2013 with funding
from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Bibliographic Roadmap work
examined requirements for usability and adoption of advanced
bibliographic exchange in a global network environment and its <a href="http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/13327/NISO_14007BibliographicRoadmapDevelopmentDoc_FINAL4.pdf">final report</a>,
published in April 2014, prioritized several areas of potential future
work, including those included in this technical report: policies
supporting vocabulary use and reuse; documentation for vocabularies; and
requirements for preservation of RDF vocabularies.<br>
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As interest in the new environment for sharing bibliographic information
grows, questions about appropriate policies and the supporting
infrastructure come to the fore. The intent of this Technical Report is
to provide a background on vocabulary management for those operating in
the current transitional environment, where there may be less knowledge
of policies and social constructs and less practical experience in
moving forward using a common infrastructure. The technical report is
also intended to position general recommendations for future gap-filling
work. <br>
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"The goal of discussing all of these activities is to highlight the
importance of stability in the vocabulary environment, particularly
regarding the need for interoperability as descriptive information moves
into the Linked Open Data environment," notes Diane Hillmann, Principal
of Metadata Management Associates LLC and co-chair of the Use and Reuse
working group. "These issues are not new and we see the recent upswing
of interest in linked data feeding interest in this area. We hope that
this technical report will promote further solutions work." <br>
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"The NISO community consists of librarians, publishers, and system and
service providers, and of course the document is written for them,"
comments Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director for Programs. "But
beyond these groups we hope the document may also help the many
individuals and groups building and sharing bibliographic and other
descriptive data, as well as knowledge managers within a variety of
organizations using vocabularies to solve problems." <br>
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The NISO Issues in Vocabulary Management technical report is available
for public comment from June 19 to July 19, 2017. To download the draft
document or submit comments, visit the NISO project page at <a href="http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/BibliographicRoadmap/">http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/BibliographicRoadmap/</a>. All input is welcome. <br>
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<b>About NISO</b><br>
NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and
maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent
management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be
trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO
engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other
organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through
the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO
works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire
lifecycle of information standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association
accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). For
more information, visit the <a href="http://www.niso.org/">NISO website</a>.
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