Where do Standards come from?
A Day without Standards
It Comes "Standard"
The Future
Acronyms
100
This industry-based, nonprofit, non-governmental association is the home of many of your favorite standards like KBART and transfer.
What is the National Information Standards Organization (NISO)?
100
Without this standard, you wouldn't know where to find the title or table of contents in a bib record.
What is MARC (Machine Readable Catalog)?
100
This is a measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values. Like in statistics.
What is standard deviation?
100
Published in February 2023, this recommended practice seeks to help us all get a handle on our podcasts and other streaming media.
What is the RP-41-2023, NISO's Video and Audio Metadata Guidelines?
100
Shared Electronic Resource Understanding Recommended Practice
What is SERU?
200
This private, non-profit organization administers and coordinates U.S. voluntary standards and conformity assessment systems. They often collaborate with NISO on the adoption and publication of standards, like Dublin Core and NCIP.
What is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)?
200
Without this standard, you wouldn't be able to share bibliographic records from one catalog to another.
What is Z39.50?
200
This pupper is the this for all Akitas.
What is the breed standard?
200
This developing NISO standard established a high-level taxonomy of roles typically played by contributors to research outputs. It makes it easy to give credit where credit is due.
What is CRediT, Contributor Roles Taxonomy?
200
Knowledge Bases and Related Tools
What is KBART?
300
This family of standard XML messaging protocols for exchanging licensing information was a collaboration between NISO and EDItEUR, international group coordinating development of the standards infrastructure for electronic commerce in the book, e-book and serials sectors.
What is ONIX for Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL)?
300
Without this standard, you wouldn't be able to compare the use of an ejournal on one platform to an ejournal on another platform.
What is COUNTER (Counting Online User NeTworked Electronic Resources)?
300
A monetary system where a country's currency or paper has a value directly linked to gold. Sorry Crypto bros.
What is the Gold Standard?
300
This working group, which included our own Matthew Ragucci, published a recommended practice in 2021to make it easier for libraries and publishers to communicate around platform migrations.
What is the Content Platform Migrations Working Group?
300
Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative
What is SUSHI?
400
This NISO Code of Practice, designed to provide consistent guidelines when a journal moves from one publisher to another, began with NASIG's sister organization, UKSG.
What is the Transfer Code of Practice?
400
Without this NISO initiative, we wouldn't be measuring how many times an article was mentioned on Twitter or downloaded from a publisher website.
What is NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Initiative?
400
This American corporation is the source of the Rockefeller fortune.
What is Standard Oil?
400
Updated in 2022, this standard is a specific tag set used for standards publishing or in other words a standard for standards.
What is ANSI/NISO Z39.102-2022, STS: Standards Tag Suite?
400
Presentation and Identification of E-Journals Recommended Practice
What is PIE-J?
500
United States government agency tasked with promoting U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
What is National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)?
500
Without this joint project between NISO and STM Publishers, we wouldn't have the seamless access of single sign on for ejournal platforms.
What is the RA21 Initiative?
500
If you got a 1600 on SAT you are super smart and probably very good at taking these.
What is standardized tests?
500
An area of your work where you would like to see a standard or recommended practice.
What is?
500
NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol
What is NCIP?