Catalogablog signale:

"A specification is being developed for distribution of books via a catalog, the OpenPub standard.

OpenPub is an initiative of Lexcycle, Adobe, the Internet Archive, and O'Reilly Media to create an Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) enabling the widespread discovery, description, and access of book and other published material on the open web. OPDS utilizes existing or emergent open standards and conventions such as ATOM with a priority on simplicity and extensibility.

Libraries might have an interest in this. Why are none among the developers?"

Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow

"The white paper was commissioned by NISO and OCLC as a follow-up to the Symposium for Publishers and Librarians held by OCLC on March 18-19, 2009 to discuss book metadata. This paper analyzes the current state of metadata creation, exchange, and use throughout the book supply chain. With the number of book formats multiplying and the amount of digital content growing rapidly, the metadata required to support the discovery, sale, and use of content by a global audience is increasing exponentially. At the same time economic pressures on all stakeholders in the supply chain from publishers, wholesalers, booksellers, metadata vendors, and librarians present greater challenges to providing quality and comprehensive metadata at every point in the cycle. Through interviews with over 30 industry representatives, Luther has created a book metadata exchange map illustrating the process and has identified opportunities for eliminating redundancies and making the entire process more efficient."

(source: NISO & OCLC, 30/06/09)

JPEG 2000 Survey Final Report

"JPEG 2000 is the product of thorough efforts toward an open standard by experts in the imaging field. With its key components for still images published officially by the ISO/IEC by 2002, it has been solidly stable for several years now, yet its adoption has been considered tenuous enough to cause imaging software developers to question the need for continued support. Digital archiving and preservation professionals must rely on solid standards, so in the fall of 2008 the authors undertook a survey among implementers (and potential implementers) to capture a snapshot of JPEG 2000’s status, with an eye toward gauging its perception within this community.
The survey results revealed several key areas that JPEG 2000’s user community will need to have addressed in order to further enhance adoption of the standard, including perspectives from cultural institutions that have adopted it already, as well as insights from institutions that do not have it in their workflows to date. Current users were concerned about limited compatible software capabilities with an eye toward needed enhancements. They realized also that there is much room for improvement in the area of educating and informing the cultural heritage community about the advantages of JPEG 2000. A small set of users, in addition, perceived problems of cross-codec consistency and future file migration issues.
Responses from non-users disclosed that there were lingering questions surrounding the format and its stability and permanence. This was stoked largely by a dearth of currently available software functionality, from the point of initial capture and manipulation on through to delivery to online users."

(source: université du Connecticut / via liste Dig_Lib, 12/05/09)

Voir aussi la présentation du rapport

We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables

"Datasets are a significant part of the scholarly record and are being published more and more frequently, either formally or informally. Many publishers are beginning to link to them from their journals and authors are trying to cite them in their articles. Librarians would like a way to manage them alongside other publications. In short, they need to be integrated into the scholarly information system so that authors, readers and librarians can use, find and manage them as easily as they do working papers, journal articles and books."

(source: OECD Publishing White Paper, avr. 09)

- Toward the Design of an Open Monograph Press
(source: John Willinsky, The Journal of Electronic Publishing, University of Michigan, vol. 12, n° 1, fév. 09)
"This paper reviews and addresses the critical issues currently confronting monograph publishing as a matter of reduced opportunities for scholars to pursue book-length projects. In response, it proposes an alternative approach to monograph publishing based on a modular design for an online system that would foster, manage, and publish monographs in digital and print forms using open source software developments, drawn from journal publishing, and social networking technologies that might contribute to not only to the sustainability of monograph publishing but to the quality of the resulting books."

- Two Scenarios for How Scholarly Publishers Could Change Their Business Model to Open Access
(source: The Journal of Electronic Publishing, University of Michigan, vol. 12, n° 1, fév. 09)
"The Internet has made possible the cost-effective dissemination of scientific journals in the form of electronic versions, usually in parallel with the printed versions. At the same time the electronic medium also makes possible totally new open access (OA) distribution models, funded by author charges, sponsorship, advertising, voluntary work, etc., where the end product is free in full text to the readers. Although more than 2,000 new OA journals have been founded in the last 15 years, the uptake of open access has been rather slow, with currently around 5% of all peer-reviewed articles published in OA journals. The slow growth can to a large extent be explained by the fact that open access has predominantly emerged via newly founded journals and startup publishers. Established journals and publishers have not had strong enough incentives to change their business models, and the commercial risks in doing so have been high. In this paper we outline and discuss two different scenarios for how scholarly publishers could change their operating model to open access. The first is based on an instantaneous change and the second on a gradual change. We propose a way to manage the gradual change by bundling traditional “big deal” licenses and author charges for opening access to individual articles."

- Perspective: The Google Books Search Settlement
(source: Cites & Insights 9:4, mars 09)

- The International Standard Text Code
(source: Notes from the Future, 04/03/09)

- ISSN International Centre Accepts VTLS Customized
(source: Library Technology Guides, 06/03/09)
"The ISSN International Centre, based in Paris, France, has accepted a customized software system for managing ISSN-L that was developed by VTLS Inc. The project has an interesting history. During the revision of the ISO Standard on ISSN (ISO 3297), the worldwide serials community—those involved in the production, distribution, management of, and access to serial resources—requested that the ISSN system meet two needs:
1. The need for the ISSN to identify the various media versions of a continuing resource for product identification and management purposes. To meet this need, a separate ISSN is assigned to the various media versions of a resource in accordance with the ISSN Manual.
2. The need for a collocation, or grouping mechanism, that would link various media versions of a continuing resource and thus facilitate content management. To meet this need, the ISSN-L was defined. ISSN-L is the ISSN designated by the ISSN Network to enable collocation, or linking, among the different media versions of a continuing resource."

- University of Arizona Libraries Collaborate with Faculty Member to Publish New E-Journal
(source: DigitalKoans, 06/03/09)

- FairShare: Track the spread of CC-licensed work
(source: OAN, 06/03/09)
"FairShare is a new site to help authors track the re-use of their CC-licensed work."

- Serials (vol. 22, n°1, mars 09 / sur abonnement)

"EBSCO Publishing has launched a Sushi-compliant server to automate the collection of usage data from EBSCOhost research databases."

Structural Metadata and the Social Limitation of Interoperability: A Sociotechnical View of XML and Digital Library Standards Development
(source: Balisage: The Markup Conference, août 08)

"Ten years after its endorsement by the World Wide Web Consortium, XML has achieved a high degree of adoption within numerous, disparate communities and in a vast range of application domains, from standards for electronic filing of federal income tax (Internal Revenue Service, 2007) to user interface design (Goodger et al., 2001). The digital library community has been an active and early adopter of XML, for use in structuring both content and metadata. The reasons for this rapid uptake of XML within the digital library community are familiar to anyone with experience in the world of markup languages:
- XML helps ensure platform (and perhaps more critically vendor) independence;
- XML provides the multilingual character support critical to the handling of library materials;
- XML's extensibility and modularity allow libraries to customize its application within their own operating environments;
- XML helps minimize software development costs by allowing libraries to leverage existing, open source development tools;
- XML, through virtue of being an open standard which enables descriptive markup, may assist in the long-term preservation of electronic materials; and perhaps most importantly
- XML provides a technological basis for interoperability of both content and metadata across library systems.
For all of these reasons, XML-based content standards such as the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) have seen wide adoption within the library community, and librarians have been actively engaged in the development of a number of XML-based metadata standards, including Encoded Archival Description (EAD), Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS), Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS), Metadata for Images in XML (MIX), MPEG-21 Digital Item Declaration Language (DIDL), Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE), Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) and many others. XML is now widely used throughout the research library world, and is a fundamental part of the infrastructure developed within the digital library community over the past decade."

Le 2 octobre prochain (13h-14h30), NISO organise un webinar portant sur SUSHI (Beyond Trial Into Real Use).

Informations et inscription ici.

Les présentations du NISO/BISG* Forum: The Changing Standards Landscape: Creative Solutions to Your Information Problems (fin juin 08) sont en ligne.

Où il a été question:
- de l'actualité et de l'évolution des standards tels que l'ISBN, l'ISSN, l'ISTC
- d'.epub,
- d'identification institutionnelle ,
- d'identity management,
- des bases de connaissance ,
- de ERMI, ONIX-PL, SERU

* Book Industry Study Group (E.-U.)

Une présentation (ppt) donnée lors de la dernière conférence de l'ALA et qui porte sur les derniers développements du standard.

(voir aussi)

Via LITA Blog