Quarterly report: 20 May 2004
Objects met
To represent the interests of members to governments, other organisations and the community.
Members
Maxine Brodie (Chair and ALIA representative)
Margaret Allen (CASL)
Kerry Blinco (CAUL)
Keitha Booth (Ministry of Commerce, NZ)
Thomas Girke (CSIRO)
Warwick Cathro (NLA)
Peter Dart (APA)
Adrian Finney (National Gallery of Australia)
Janifer Gatenby (CAUL)
Jon Mason (Chair of Subcommittee IT-019/01)
Neil McLean (IMS Australia)
Cath Parker (AICTEC)
Geoff Payne (VALA)
Judith Pearce (ACLIS)
Andrew Prout (NZLIS)
John Roberts (National Archives NZ)
Karen Rollitt (NLNZ)
Anne-Maree Scott (CONZUL)
Rona Wade (Tertiary Libraries Networks)
Irene Hagstrom (Standards Australia)
Nelson Procter (Standards New Zealand)
Report
Meetings and membership
Since my May 2003 report, the Committee met in Sydney on 8 August 2003, Wellington NZ on 21 November 2003 and Canberra on 17 March 2004. Thomas Girke has replaced Ann Camfield as the CSIRO representative and Alan Smith has retired.
Current Projects
The following list of projects will conclude shortly with the publication of A/NZ standards which 'clone' the relevant international standard:
- Project 4705 - ISO 15836:2003 The Dublin Core metadata element set
- Project 5167 - ISO 5127 Information Vocabulary
- Project 5168 - ISO 11798 Permanence and durability of writing, printing and copying on paper - Requirements and test methods.
- Project 5169 - ISO 17933 GEDI - Generic electronic document interchange
- Project 5170 - ISO 2789 International Library Statistics
- Project 5171 - ISO 3901 International standard recording code (ISRC)
- Project 5172 - ISO 15706 International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN)
- Project 5174 - ISO 15707 International standard musical work code (ISWC)
- The IEEE Learning Object Metadata Standard (LOM) is also being cloned for A/NZ.
- Project 2427: A/NZ4779:2003 Documentation - Collecting agencies directories. Standard now to comment stage and will be presented at ISO/TC46 meeting in Washington in October 2004. Committee experts: Judith Pearce and Kerry Blinco. Relevance - ILL Resource Sharing Directory Project at the NLA.
New Projects
- International Standard Music Number (ISMN) @cloning project set up. Committee expert: Warwick Cathro
- Negotiations also continue with NISO about the possibility of cloning:
- Z39.83 NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol. Committee experts: Janifer Gatenby and Kerry Blinco
- Z39.86 Digital Talking Book Standard. Committee expert: Geoff Payne.
- Z39.87 Digital Still Images. Committee experts: Warwick Cathro and Margaret Allen
Project Watch and Future Briefing Papers
- EPICS funded projects, ONIX and DOI in publishing and printing. Implications @ change of ISBN standard to 13 characters; impact on BISAC exchange standard. Committee expert: Peter Dart
- Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) IFLA/ISO - implications
- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) Library of Congress Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
- Persistent locators @ eg DOI, Open URL
- Open Digital Rights Language/Digital Rights Expression Language
Proposed Seminars on Standards Developments
A successful update seminar was run in Wellington in conjunction with the November meeting. The Australian meeting is proposed for Melbourne on12 August 2004.
AICTEC Standards & Interoperability Committee (ASIC)
I have recently been appointed to this Committee representing Standards Australia. The aim of ASIC is to maximise the use of preferred standards in the development of online education resources and the delivery of educational services across all sectors of education and training in Australia. The imminent cloning of the Dublin Core metadata element set and the IEEE LOM may provide a real opportunity for cross-sectoral harmonisation of resource discovery metadata.
Maxine Brodie
10 May 2004
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