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Voted YES on NISO Z39.96-202x, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite (1.3) Question: Do you approve this revised standard (NISO Z39.96, JATS 1.3) for publication as an American National Standard? 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…

Voted on the Following ISO Standards in May 2021 1)  Voted CONFIRM on Systematic Review – ISO 9230:2007, Determination of price indexes for print and electronic media Question: Do you recommend ISO 9230:2007 be confirmed, revised or withdrawn? Description: This International Standard specifies a method for the determination of price indexes relating to the prices…

Cast the Following Votes in the NISO Elections: For Vice-Chair/Chair Elect: Maria Stanton (Director of Production, Atla) Board of Directors: Jonathan Clark (DOI Foundation) Salwa Ismail (University of California, Berkeley Library) Peter Murray (Index Data, LLC)

Voted APPROVE on ISO/FDIS 24083, International archives statistics Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/FDIS 24083? Description: This document specifies guidelines for the archives community on the collection and reporting of statistics.

Voted YES on Proposal to Develop a Recommended Practice to Update Author Name Changes in the Academic Publication Record after Publication as a Result of Identity Change Question: Do you approve of a Proposed New Work Item: Develop a Recommended Practice to Update Author Name Changes in the Academic Publication Record after Publication as a…

Voted DISAPPROVE on ISO/DIS 18626, Interlibrary loan transactions Question: Do you approve the technical content of the draft? Description: This document specifies the transactions between libraries or libraries and other agencies to handle requests for library items and the following exchange of messages. Comments: 1. Section 5.2.1 of the standard and Appendix F (Informative) both…

Voted YES on Systematic Review – ISO 7098:2015, Information and documentation – Romanization of Chinese Question: Do you recommend ISO 7098 be confirmed, revised or withdrawn? Description: This International Standard explains the principles of the Romanization of Modern Chinese Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese), the official language of the People’s Republic of China as defined in the…

Voted YES on Terms of reference for the maintenance of ISO 3166 Question: Do you approve the attached Terms of Reference for the maintenance of ISO 3166? Description: Terms of reference for the maintenance of ISO 3166 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions.

NISO New Work Item – Create an ANSI/NISO standard for the interchange of academic, research, and professional content, data, and semantics Voted Yes on NISO – New Work Item – Create an ANSI/NISO standard for the interchange of academic,research, and professional content, data, and semantics Question: Do you approve of a Proposed New Work Item:…

1) Voted CONFIRM on Systematic Review – ISO 843, Conversion of Greek characters into Latin characters Question: Do you recommend ISO 843 be confirmed, revised or withdrawn? Description: This International Standard establishes a system for the transliteration and/or transcription of Greek characters into Latin characters. This system provides for two sets of rules, each constituting…