This might be relevant to people here, particularly to those of you
with an interst in VDEX?
Andy
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Distributed Systems, UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:32:04 -0400
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Subject: Z39.19 'thesaurus standard' is out-for-review
NISO Ballot Announcement: Z39.19-200X - Revised and Out-for-Ballot
NISO Standard Z39.19, now titled Guidelines for the Construction,
Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies, has
been
revised and is available for ballot and review by all NISO
Members.
Balloting Period: April 11, 2005 to May 25, 2005
The revised draft standard and balloting instructions are at:
http://www.niso.org/standards/balloting.html
Any "interested party" -- i.e. anyone -- is invited to comment.
The standard has been expanded considerably and grown to 172 pages. In
this revision of the Z39.19 standard:
• More user-friendly language is incorporated and
explanations of
important concepts and principles are provided.
• The standard takes into account changes in information technology,
the various ways that users search or browse, and the many types of
content they find.
• The scope of the revised standard addresses the needs presented by
a
variety of information producing organizations and different types of
content; examples throughout the document are relevant to business and
industry.
This revised standard is a collaboration among a number of NISO
members
and leading experts in the information field. The process used
demonstrates a shift in NISO's standards development approach. The
parameters of the revision were first defined at a pre-standards
workshop NISO held in 1999. With the support of The H.W. Wilson
Foundation, The Getty Grant Program, and the National Library of
Medicine resources were provided to undertake the revision.
The following persons were members of the development team that
revised
Z39.19:
• Emily Fayen (MuseGlobal), Project Lead
• Vivian Bliss (Microsoft Corporation)
• Carol Brent (ProQuest Information and Learning)
• David Clarke (Synapse Corporation)
• John Dickert (U.S. Department of Defense, DTIC)
• Lynn El-Hoshy (Library of Congress)
• Patricia Harpring (The Getty Foundation)
• Stephen Hearn (representing the American Library Association)
• Marjorie Hlava (Access Innovations, Inc.)
• Sabine Kuhn (Chemical Abstracts Service)
• Pat Kuhr (The H.W. Wilson Company)
• Paula McCoy (ProQuest Information and Learning)
• Diane McKerlie (DMA Consulting)
• Peter Morville (Semantic Studios)
• Stuart Nelson (National Library of Medicine)
• Allan Savage (National Library of Medicine)
• Diane Vizine-Goetz (OCLC, Inc.)
• Trish Yancey (Synapse Corporation)
• Marcia Lei Zeng (representing the Special Libraries Association)
Cynthia Hodgson, on NISO's editorial staff, worked closely with the
revision group to see this project through to completion.
NISO's thanks goes to this outstanding group for their time, talent,
expertise, and dedication.
Now, you are invited to review this standard.
Pat Harris
Executive Director
NISO
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Bethesda, MD 20814 USA
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