Following the issuance of the Bibliographic Roadmap final report in April 2014, NISO’s Content and Collection Management (CCM) Topic Committee evaluated the recommendations and prepared a new work item proposal focusing on three of the top prioritized areas: Vocabulary policies on use and reuse, Vocabulary documentation, and Vocabulary preservation requirements.

A reminder of the BIBFRAME project led by the Library of Congress and a presentation of the recent “Libhub Initiative”, a proof-of-concept project that aims to build a network of libraries using BIBFRAME standards to link data between institutions and other resources.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a white paper which is an overview of the current discovery environment; descriptions of how these technologies, methodologies, and products may be able to adapt to potential future change.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and UKSG announce that the Transfer Code of Practice will now be supported and maintained by NISO. The Code provides voluntary guidelines for publishers to follow when transferring journal titles between parties to ensure that the journal content remains easily accessible by librarians and readers.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a new Recommended Practice on Access License and Indicators (NISO RP-22-2015). This recommendation defines metadata to be used to indicate free-to-read content and a link to license terms for the use/re-use of that content.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a revision to the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol (ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2014). The SUSHI standard defines an automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic resource usage data utilizing a web services framework that can replace the user-mediated collection of usage data reports.

The Architecture Committee of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has issued a NISO Strategic Directions document that identifies the trends and emerging themes that will direct the future development portfolios of standards and recommended practices. NISO continues to structure the standards portfolio around the core areas of Content and Collection Management, Business Information, and Discovery and Delivery.

ProQuest affiliate Bowker will now include the ISO-certified International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) in its ONIX 2.1 data feeds to retailers such as Barnes & Noble, as well as the major search engines, ensuring that authors are accurately identified in search and discovery.

The Registering Researchers Task Group wrote a report that summarizes the benefits and trade-offs of emerging approaches to the problem of incomplete national authority files. The report presents functional requirements and recommendations for six stakeholders (among them are librarians, aggregators and publishers). The broader impact of this work will be to make it easier for researchers and institutions to more accurately measure their scholarly output through the use of persistent identifiers.

The IFLA Satellite Meeting 2014 dedicated to RDA was held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 13 August 2014.

The presentations are now available online.