The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced the publication of its Recommended Practice, NISO RP-38-2021, Content Platform Migrations, which provides guidance to improve processes and communication between all parties, with suggested steps involved before, during, and after the migration of content from one platform to another. This new Recommended Practice, developed by the librarians, publishers, and content platform providers on the Content Platform Migrations Working Group, intends to streamline the process and clarify the communications needed to ensure seamless transitions. The final version incorporates feedback received from the wider community during the public comment period earlier in 2021.

In this Forum held during the ALA Annual Virtual Meeting, the Library of Congress reported on its progress toward BIBFRAME 100. Stanford reported progress on the community level and provided exciting news about a BIBFRAME data pool – cooperatively created by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), OCLC and ShareVDE. The PCC is also starting to look at important aspects of data exchange in this new BIBFRAME environment. With several large implementations of BIBFRAME now having extensive experience, the BIBFRAME ontology is being adjusted based on this experience.

• Recording of the BIBFRAME June 28 presentation (63 minutes)

The presentations are accessible here.

Did you know that organizational ISNIs can now be deposited as part of DOI affiliation metadata? Ringgold provides ISNIs for all records in the Identify Database, the authoritative reference database curated by Ringgold that serves the scholarly, academic, and research fields. The Identify Database contains almost 600,000 organizations in all countries and sectors. Related organizations are linked together, such as universities and their departments, or corporate entities with subsidiary firms or divisions. Ringgold hierarchies are key to understanding complex relationships and the wider market.

The ISNI International Agency (ISNI-IA) announces it is formally reviewing the handling of gender identities associated with the ISO 27729 International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). A small advisory group will review current ISNI policy and emerging best practice in gender identification to identify shortcomings. The group will involve representatives from key ISNI sectors (including libraries, the music industry, book publishing and rights organisations) and from affected groups. The recommendations will be offered to ISNI’s community for comment and the ISNI Board will make a final decision.

IFLA’s Key Initiative 2.3 outlines the integral role of  developing standards, guidelines and other documents that foster best professional practice. During the session of IFLA’s Committee on Standards, Vincent Boulet highlighted the role Standards play in dealing with user tasks (IFLA Library Reference Model – LRM). The strength of IFLA Standards lies in their continued visibility and adaptability. In order to ensure both, new opportunities to build bridges with other stakeholders must be taken.

These include “ensuring a new generation interoperability (cross-domain identifiers) and joining other networks. Joseph Hafner, Chair of LIDATEC, provided an update on the recently-launched Namespaces project, a powerful linking tool that brings all of IFLA’s technical standards together.

The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has released its second national open science plan, which proposes specific actions around PIDs such as:

• Standardise the Software Heritage Identifier (SWHID), which will complement the DOIs for software.
• Encourage researchers to adopt ORCID iDs, and propose adding data from ORCID to the research information systems to limit duplication efforts.
• Participate in the governance of standards for metadata and persistent digital identifiers (Crossref, DataCite, ORCID, ROR) and in the governance of open science services (Directory of Open Access Journals, Directory of Open Access Books, OPERAS,…).

More info on https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/second-national-plan-for-open-science/ 8

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) publishes the latest update to the JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2021), Version 1.3.

JATS provides a common XML format in which publishers and archives can exchange journal content—both articles (text and graphics) and non-article material such as letters, editorials, and book and product reviews. The Tag Suite is the complete set of elements and attributes described in the standard. Along with these descriptions, the standard includes three implementations of the suite, called Tag Sets, which are intended to provide models for archiving, publishing, and authoring journal article content. Version 1.3 of the standard incorporates public comments made through October 2020.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of its updated ANSI/NISO Z39.4, Criteria for Indexes, incorporating feedback from the public comment period earlier this year. It replaces the original ANSI/NISO Z39.4 standard (Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices), last updated in 1984, and is an updated and expanded version of NISO’s Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices (a technical report, TR02-1997).

The updated standard provides guidelines for the content, organization, and presentation of indexes used for the retrieval of information. It deals with the principles of indexing—regardless of the type of material indexed, the indexing method used, the medium of the index, or the method of presentation for searching.

As part of a recent security review and the migration of the ISNI website to a more trusted https environment, ISNI International Agency revisited the preferred format for representing ISNI identiers. The canonical ISNI URI now incorporates the change from http to https so that all ISNI URIs are now of the pattern https://isni.org/isni/ID, where ID is the 16-digit ISNI (without
any spaces) – for example https://isni.org/isni/000000012124423X.

The British Library has now launched its online, all-in-one service for the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). The Portal offers three services for ISNI users: a registration service for the assignment of ISNIs; a search and discovery function for finding and viewing existing ISNI records via the ISNI database; and a review function which enables ISNI users to recommend additions or corrections to existing ISNI records.