Digital Creation and Curation Best Practices, Guidelines and Standards: NISO?
Jody DeRidderChair, NISO Information Creation and Curation Topic Committee
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“Digital Creation and Curation Best Practices, Guidelines and Standards: NISO?”
NISO Organization
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The three Topic Committees oversee working groups, review new work items, undertake research projects, and solicit feedback from the community on standards or best practice work that should involve NISO. The Architecture Committee coordinates the work of the Topic Committees and provides more strategic guidance on the standards portfolio to the NISO Board of Directors.
Scope
The Information Creation and Curation Topic Committee focuses on issues regarding: • metadata creation and management, • cataloging and description, • vocabulary and ontology management, • publishing schemas and specifications, • preservation and data curation, and • repositories.
How does this work?
• Identify a need that can be met• Who are the stakeholders?• Outline a proposal: what needs to be done?
– White paper– Best practices & guidelines– A new or updated standard
• Present the proposal to the topic committee• Topic committee votes
How does this work?• NISO membership votes• Working group is formed:
– Producers– Users– General interest
• Timeline set; chairs appointed• Work commences
More Info: http://bit.ly/NISO-procedures-2014
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Producers, users and general interest members can be different depending on the project. For example, in JATS, publishers are considered Users of the standard while their software suppliers are the Producers. http://bit.ly/NISO-procedures-2014, section 1.2.4 (page 4)
• NISO provides online meetings, document stores, etc.• Topic committee provides oversight• Results are publicized and stored online• Final product reviewed regularly for updating needs
Digital Creation & Curation / Preservation
• Creation and receiving• Identification, appraisal and selection• Metadata:
– Description and context– Administrative, structural and rights
Digital curation and digital preservation are pressing issues, as tremendous quantities of valuable digital content disappear daily from the Web, or become inaccessible due to software and hardware changes, media obsolescence, bit loss, failed storage devices, or inadequate management. Content creators are largely unaware of the impact their choice of software, formats, description, and storage can have on continued access to their creations over time. Archivists and librarians are overwhelmed by how to even appraise and select from the tremendous quantities and varieties of digital content available, and then how to ingest and manage the content effectively and efficiently for long-term access. As funding challenges reduce the staffing available to manage digital curation and digital preservation, the need for best practices, guidelines, and standards to provide guidance becomes critical.
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Jody DeRidderChair, NISO ICC Topic Committeejody_deridder@oclc.org
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I can also be contacted at jody.deridder@gmail.com