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Standards Committee Activities 2024

ISO/DIS 16687 Impact assessment for museums

September 26, 2024

Voted YES with Comments ; on ISO/DIS 16687 Impact assessment for museums

Description:

This document defines and describes methods for measuring and assessing the impact of museums on individuals and on society. The methods described can be used for identifying areas of influence of museums and their services, and for reporting such influence to stakeholders and the general public.

Comments:

The idea of cataloging and even classification needs to be extended in the light of online resources and connecting to actual objects. The definition you have below from the CCO is an excellent beginning.

It might be good to also consider including the ability to add some sort of persistent identifier connection for the collections.

the one for Impact assessment for museums, ISO_DIS_16687 draft did not bring enough attention to accessibility, as this is becoming more important in the digital age. The draft of this one only referred to accessibility twice and are limited to the physical facility.

In A.1. General:

Impact surveys can be combined with satisfaction surveys, i.e. questions as to satisfaction can be added. This can e.g. concern the exhibitions (structure, explanations, ease of understanding), the building (accessibility, traffic connections, attractiveness, relax areas) or the staff (availability, empathy, competence).

& in 3 Terms and definitions

3.2 accessibility

ease of reaching and using a service or facility

[SOURCE: ISO 11620:2023, 3.3]

4.:Core functions of museums

4.3 Cataloguing

The main tasks are:

— to catalogue/describe the collected objects in the inventory documents and in scientific catalogues and databases;

— to make the collections visible and accessible by online catalogues and via the Internet.

The function ‘cataloging’ defined in this draft standard seemed to be limited to description of physical objects, not include conservation and other documentation done by curators in the documentation processes. It also did not cover the cataloging of the visual representations of those objects. reference is Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) [1]. ASIST would recommend consulting this really widely used best practice guideline

https://community.asist­.org/discussion/about-is­o-dis-16687-impact-asses­sment-for-museums-1

Comments provided by Marcia Zeng, Marjories Hlava and Iris Xie

Z39.96-202x JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite (1.4)

September 26, 2024

Voted YES on Z39.96-202x JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite (1.4)

Description:

The purpose of the NISO Journal Article Tag Suite (NISO JATS) standard is to define a suite of XML elements and attributes that describes the content and metadata of journal articles—including research and non-research articles, letters, editorials, book and product reviews—with the intent of providing a common format in which publishers and archives can exchange journal content. This standard is a revision of JATS 1.3 published in 2021, and includes input determined by the NISO JATS Standing Committee pursuant to its ANSI-approved Continuous Maintenance process.

ISO/CD 25964-1, Information and documentation. – Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies – Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval, management and use

September 12, 2024

Voted NO Comments on ISO/CD 25964-1, Information and documentation. – Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies – Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval, management and use

Description:

Part 1 of ISO 25964 gives recommendations for the development and maintenance of thesauri intended for information retrieval, applications as well as broader use cases including web navigation, artificial intelligence, author tagging, management, and use applications. It is applicable to vocabularies used for retrieving information from all types of information resources, irrespective of the media used (text, sound, still or moving image, physical object or multimedia) including knowledge bases web sites, bibliographic databases, text, museum or multimedia collections, and the items within them, research and operational datasets, medical records, product catalogs.

Create an NISO Standard for a U.S. PID Strategy

September 12, 2024

Voted YES to Create an ANSI?NISO Standard for a U.S. PID Strategy

Description:

The proposed NISO Working Group will further develop these components into an ANSI/NISO standard. Ideally, the resulting standard will be adopted widely by organizations throughout the research ecosystem in the US and potentially adapted globally in other national contexts around the world, as part of a growing movement to deploy national persistent identifier strategies>

ISO 15511:2019, Information and documentation – International standard identifier for libraries and related organizations (ISIL)

August 8, 2024

Voted CONFIRM on ISO 15511:2019, Information and documentation – International standard identifier for libraries and related organizations (ISIL)

Description:

This document specifies the International Standard identifier for libraries and related organizations (ISIL), which comprises a set of standard identifiers used for the unique identification of libraries and related organizations such as museums and archives with a minimum impact on already existing systems.

ISO/FDIS 27729, Information and documentation – International standard name identifier (ISNI)

August 6, 2024

Voted APPROVE on ISO/FDIS 27729, Information and documentation – International standard name identifier (ISNI)
Question:

Do you approve the technical content of ISO/FDIS 27729?
Description:

This document specifies the International Standard name identifier (ISNI) for the identification of public identities of parties, i.e. the identities used publicly by parties involved throughout the media content industries in the creation, production, management and content distribution chains.

ISO/CD 16687, Impact assessment for museums

March 20, 2024

Voted NO COMMENT on ISO/CD 16687, Impact assessment for museums

Question:

Question: Do you have any comments related to the Committee Draft, ISO/CD 16687?

Description:

This document defines and describes methods for measuring and assessing the impact of museums on individuals and on society. The methods described can be used for identifying areas of influence of museums and their services, and for reporting such influence to stakeholders and the general public.This document defines and describes methods for measuring and assessing the impact of museums on individuals and on society. The methods described can be used for identifying areas of influence of museums and their services, and for reporting such influence to stakeholders and the general public