OpenURL Standard Z39.88 - Approved

[Eric Hellman]

It's been a long time, but this is good news.


At 4:48 PM -0400 4/14/05, Pat Harris wrote:
>Dear members,
>You'll want to mark this day on your calendar:
>The OpenURL standard, NISO Z39.88 - 2004 The OpenURL Framework for 
>Context-Sensitive Services,
>has been approved by the NISO Members and is available now for free 
>download from the NISO site:
>http://www.niso.org/standards/index.htm
>ANSI approval is pending. In light of the importance of this 
>standard to the community we are making this near-final version 
>available.
>
>Congratulations, and thanks, to all the members of Committee AX for 
>all their hard work to craft and complete this standard.
>Eric F. Van de Velde,  Chairperson of Committee AX  (California 
>Institute of Technology)
>Ann Apps (MIMAS-Manchester Computing University of Manchester)
>Oren Beit-Arie (ExLibris USA, Inc.)
>Karim Boughida (Getty Research Institute)
>Karen Coyle (California Digital Library, University of California, retired)
>Todd Fegan (ProQuest Information and Learning)
>Tony Hammond (Nature Publishing)
>Eric Hellman (Openly Informatics, Inc.)
>Mike Hoover (ProQuest Information and Learning)
>Lou Knecht (National Library of Medicine)
>Larry Lannom [Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)]
>Clifford Morgan, NISO SDC Liaison to SC AX  (John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
>Mark H. Needleman (SIRSI Corporation)
>Eamonn Neylon (Manifest Solutions)
>Philip Norman (OCLC, Inc.)
>Oliver Pesch (EBSCO Information Services)
>Harry Samuels  (Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.)
>Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
>
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>Pat Harris
>Executive Director
>NISO
>4733 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 300
>Bethesda, MD 20814 USA
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