Z39.19 Draft Standard for Controlled Vocabularies

[Peter Morville]

The new draft standard is available at
http://www.niso.org/standards/balloting.html. See below for details. Cheers!
 

Peter Morville
President, Semantic Studios
www.semanticstudios.com

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NISO Ballot Announcement: Z39.19-200X - Revised and Out-for-Ballot

NISO Standard Z39.19, now titled Guidelines for the Construction, Format,
and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies, has been revised and
is available for ballot and review by all NISO Members. Balloting Period:
April 11, 2005 to May 25, 2005
The revised draft standard and balloting instructions are at:
http://www.niso.org/standards/balloting.html

The standard has been expanded considerably and grown to 172 pages. In this
revision of the Z39.19 standard:
. More user-friendly language is incorporated and explanations of important
concepts and principles are provided.
. The standard takes into account changes in information technology, the
various ways that users search or browse, and the many types of content they
find.
. The scope of the revised standard addresses the needs presented by a
variety of information producing organizations and different types of
content; examples throughout the document are relevant to business and
industry.

This revised standard is a collaboration among a number of NISO members and
leading experts in the information field. The process used demonstrates a
shift in NISO's standards development approach. The parameters of the
revision were first defined at a pre-standards workshop NISO held in 1999.
With the support of The H.W. Wilson Foundation, The Getty Grant Program, and
the National Library of Medicine resources were provided to undertake the
revision. 

The following persons were members of the development team that revised
Z39.19:
. Emily Fayen (MuseGlobal), Project Lead
. Vivian Bliss (Microsoft Corporation)
. Carol Brent (ProQuest Information and Learning)
. David Clarke (Synapse Corporation)
. John Dickert (U.S. Department of Defense, DTIC)
. Lynn El-Hoshy (Library of Congress)
. Patricia Harpring (The Getty Foundation)
. Stephen Hearn (representing the American Library Association)
. Marjorie Hlava (Access Innovations, Inc.)
. Sabine Kuhn (Chemical Abstracts Service)
. Pat Kuhr (The H.W. Wilson Company)
. Paula McCoy (ProQuest Information and Learning)
. Diane McKerlie (DMA Consulting)
. Peter Morville (Semantic Studios)
. Stuart Nelson (National Library of Medicine)
. Allan Savage (National Library of Medicine)
. Diane Vizine-Goetz (OCLC, Inc.)
. Trish Yancey (Synapse Corporation)
. Marcia Lei Zeng (representing the Special Libraries Association)
Cynthia Hodgson, on NISO's editorial staff, worked closely with the revision
group to see this project through to completion. 
NISO's thanks goes to this outstanding group for their time, talent,
expertise, and dedication.

Now, Voting Members, you are invited to review this standard. Please return
your ballot by May 25. Thank You!

Pat Harris


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