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Standards in Development: June 30, 2014

Standards in Development

September 2014

Listed below are the NISO working groups that are currently developing new or revised standards, recommended practices, or reports. Refer to the NISO website (www.niso.org/workrooms/) and the Newsline quarterly supplements, Working Group Connection (www.niso.org/publications/newsline/), for updates on the working group activities.

Note: DSFTU stands for Draft Standard for Trial Use.

Access and License Indicators (formerly Open Access Metadata and Indicators)
Co-chairs: Cameron Neylon, Ed Pentz, Greg Tananbaum
Recommended Practice (NISO RP-22-201x) being finalized for publication following the public comment period.

Journal Article TAG Suite Standing Committee
Co-chairs: Jeff Beck, B. Tommie Usdin
Revision of the JATS standard (Z39.96-201x) in development.

Journal Article Versions (JAV) Addendum
Chair: Michael Dellert
Revised Recommended Practice (NISO RP-9-201x) in development.

Open Discovery Initiative
Co-chairs: Marshall Breeding, Jenny Walker
Recommended Practice Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery (NISO RP-19-2014) published.

Protocol for Exchanging Serial Content
Co-chairs: Leslie Johnston, Kimberly Tryka
Recommended Practice (NISO RP-23-201x) in development.

Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP)
Co-chairs: John Bodfish, Ted Koppel
Standard (NISO Z39.100-201x) in development.

SUSHI Lite
Co-chairs: Paul Needham, Oliver Pesch
Technical Report (NISO TR-06-201x) in development.

SUSHI Standing Committee
Co-chairs: Marie Kennedy, Oliver Pesch
Revision of the SUSHI Protocol standard (Z39.93-201x) at ballot.

US Profile of ISO 3166 Country Codes
Chair: TBD
Working group being formed to develop standard (Z39.101-201x).