NISO Finds Its Own Road: Consortium Standards Bulletin, v.III, no.4
NISO Finds Its Own Road
April 2004
By Andrew UpdegroveNISO is an ANSI accredited standards development organization ("SDO") -- and it also
makes its standards available for free. It has its roots in library science -- but creates standards
applicable to any organization that maintains large stores of information. It creates standards for paper
that can remain stable for hundreds of years -- as well as client/server service and protocol standards for
information retrieval.All in all, not your average accredited standards development organization. How did an organization
founded by the library and publishing community in 1935 get from there to here? And where is it heading
next?
