Organizational identifiers provide the means for a variety of stakeholders to find and identify an organization accurately and define relationships among its sub-units and with other organizations. This OCLC report focuses on organizational identifiers from the perspective of academic institutions, and outlines several scenarios where the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) can be used to disambiguate organizations, including real-world examples.

You are invited to comment on FRBR-LRM as part of a world-wide review. Comments will be reviewed by the FRBR Review Group and by the Consolidation Editorial Group. Please send all comments to Chris Oliver (christine.oliver@uottawa.ca), Chair of the FRBR Review Group by May 1, 2016.

Since 15th April, 2016, voting is open about the systematic review of the ISSN standard.

The public survey about the ISBN standard PR NF ISO 2108 revision, has finished in April 2016. This is the second step of a three year project to publish a revised standard in 2017. The Working Group consists of over 30 international experts as well as key organisations in liaison such as GS1 and its convenor is Stella Griffiths, Executive Director of the International ISBN Agency.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) seeks comments on the draft Altmetrics Definitions and Use Cases document, NISO RP-25-201X-1. The draft is an output of the NISO Altmetrics Initiative, a two-phase project aiming to address limitations and gaps that may hinder the adoption of altmetrics, an expansion of tools available for measuring scholarly impact of research in the knowledge environment. The NISO document means to highlight the different ways in which the stakeholders collect, develop, and consume altmetrics, and to explain and contextualize commonalities between stakeholders’ needs, goals, and usages.

The draft Recommended Practice is open for public comments through April 20, 2016.

Second out of three draft recommendations from the NISO Altmetrics Initiative is now available for input from stakeholders. The draft is an output of the NISO Altmetrics Initiative, a two-phase project aiming to address limitations and gaps that may hinder the adoption of altmetrics, an expansion of tools available for measuring scholarly impact of research in the knowledge environment. The draft Recommended Practice is open for public comments through April 20, 2016.

After being approached by some editors for identifiers during the grant application process for researchers and authors, ORCID was asked to help them in providing information and tools for a common low-barrier user experience.

The last IFLA Metadata newsletter includes an article about the 40th anniversary of ISSN network, making a balance of the past and envisaging the future.

This newly official edition is a revision of ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012, also known as JATS 1.0, first published in July 2012. JATS 1.1 includes changes based on comments from users made on JATS 1.0 through February 2015, which have been addressed by the NISO JATS Standing Committee. The Journal Article Tag Suite provides a common XML format in which publishers and archives can exchange journal content. The JATS provides a set of XML elements and attributes for describing the textual and graphical content of journal articles as well as some non-article material such as letters, editorials, and book and product reviews.

Web Archivability is interested in proposing best practices that help the web developers and designers in building web site that can be easily captured, preserved, and replayed using the web archiving tools.

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