NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Development Project: Discussion Webinar

About this Event

Earlier this year, NISO hosted a two-day session in Baltimore to pull together bibliographic systems experts from around the world to discuss the broader implications of developing trends in our community regarding the future of bibliographic data exchange systems. Supported by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the purpose of the Bibliographic Roadmap initiative was to identify potential areas for future areas of focus, potential research, or development necessary to implement a transformation in how bibliographic data is created, exchanged, and managed.

NISO will be continuing this project with a discussion webinar on December 5 at 1 pm Eastern time. This free event will summarize the prioritization effort currently underway at NISO's IdeaScale Input Forum to highlight those projects the community views as most potentially valuable in advancing the goal of implementing a transformation of bibliographic data systems. During the in-person meeting earlier this year, attendees identified more than 40 potential project ideas, which have been grouped into roughly 15 different potential activity themes, now listed on IdeaScale. Obviously, in an environment of limited resources, not every one of these projects can be acted upon or pursued. This phase of the project will be to collectively prioritize these potential activity streams.

During the webinar, we will briefly discuss the various potential activities that were identified. During the session, participants will also have an opportunity to provide feedback that will shape the recommendations and potential future work. As a community- and membership-based organization, NISO wants to ensure that our activities track the interests and needs of our constituencies, so we rely heavily on the feedback and input from members and the community at large. We will continue to discuss and refine these items into early 2014, with plans to distribute a final report of this initiative in April 2014. NISO will also host an open discussion of the project at the ALA Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia.

Questions regarding this initiative can be directed to Nettie Lagace via nlagace@niso.org.

Extract of the Proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

Project summary report, April 2014

New work item proposal for three Vocabulary development projects (November 2014): Vocabulary policies on use and reuse, Vocabulary documentation, and Vocabulary preservation requirements

Speakers:

• Gordon Dunshire, Chair, IFLA and RDA
• Jeremy Nelson, Metadata and Systems Librarian, Colorado College
• Antoine Issac, R&D manager at Europeana
• Francoise Bourdon, Novelist, Bibliotheque Nationale de France