New and Emerging Specs & Standards (November 2023)

ISO 21127:2023 Information and documentation – A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information
Technical Committee: ISO/TC 46/SC 4 Technical interoperability
“This document gives a curated, factual knowledge about the past at a human scale. It specifies all information required for the exchange and integration of heterogeneous scientific and scholarly documentation about the past at a human scale and the available documented and empirical evidence for this. A more detailed and useful definition can be articulated by defining both the intended scope, a broad and maximally-inclusive definition of general application principles, and the practical scope, which is expressed by the overall scope of a growing reference set of specific, identifiable documentation standards and practices that this document aims to semantically describe, restricted, always, in its details to the limitations of the intended scope. The practical scope of this document is expressed in terms of the set of reference standards and de facto standards for documenting factual knowledge. This document covers the same domain of discourse as the union of these reference standards; this means that for data correctly encoded according to these documentation formats there can be an ISO 21127-compatible expression that conveys the same meaning.”

ISO 34000:2023 Date and time – Vocabulary
Technical Committee: ISO/TC 154 Processes, data elements and documents in commerce, industry and administration
“This document defines terms related to date and time, from fundamental concepts to those of their usage and representation. […]  Specifically, the terminology presented in this document serves as a sound basis in the understanding of date and time; guides new developments in the field by underpinning mutual understanding; serves as a quick and handy reference for those newly inaugurated to this field.”

DCMI hosts SKOS-Thes, a namespace based on ISO 25964 [DCMI]
“DCMI is providing a new home for SKOS-Thes, a namespace that extends SKOS on the basis of the ISO 25964 data model. The ISO 25964 standard, published in 2011, covers all aspects of developing thesauri and setting up mappings across vocabularies to encourage high quality information retrieval across networked resources. The goals of ISO 25964 are similar to those of Simple Knowledge Organization System, SKOS, the W3C standard for sharing and linking Knowledge Organization Systems on the Web. SKOS-Thes was created as a namespace of OWL properties and classes for features of the ISO 25964 data model not covered by SKOS itself. DCMI is hosting the SKOS-Thes namespace to ensure its long-term availability and maintainability.”

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 is a W3C Recommendation [W3C]
“The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG) published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 as a W3C Recommendation. WCAG and supporting documents explain how to make content more accessible to people with disabilities. For an introduction to WCAG, see the WCAG 2 Overview. WCAG 2.2 adds 9 requirements (called success criteria) since WCAG 2.1. These success criteria improve accessibility for people with visual, physical, and cognitive disabilities. For example, they expand guidance for touch input. To learn more about WCAG 2.2, see What's New in WCAG 2.2.

Summary: Generative AI In Libraries [ALA Core]
“The Generative AI In Libraries e-Forum was held on October 10-11, 2023. It was co-moderated by Mary Aycock, Database and Metadata Coordinator at Texas State University; Wilhelmina Randtke, Head of Libraries Technologies and Systems at the Georgia Southern University Libraries and Claudia Engel, member of the Research Data Services division and Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research at the Stanford libraries. This e-Forum invited attendees to explore the topic of generative AI, particularly in a library or GLAM setting. Participants discussed how advancements in generative AI are affecting our workplace and the library services offered.”