National Information Standards Organization
The National Information Standards Organization is a US non-profit standards organization founded in 1939.
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is a US non-profit standards organization. It is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and develops technical standards used in publishing, libraries, media, and other content distribution. NISO develops both formal U.S National Standards as well as recommended practices. It also hosts a variety of educational and training programs for the community. NISO is designated by ANSI to represent U.S. interests to the International Organization for Standardization's Technical Committee 46 (Information and Documentation), all of its subcommittees, as well as the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 Subcommittee 34 - Document description and processing languages (JTC 1/SC 34). that develops, maintains and publishes technical standards related to publishing, bibliographic and library applications.
NISO has two membership categories:
- "Voting members" include large corporations, mostly publishers, and large library organizations such as the American Library Association.[2] Voting members elect Directors and comment and vote on standards.[5]
- "Library Standards Alliance" includes primarily university and large public libraries.[2]
History
NISO was founded in 1939 as the Z39 Committee, chaired from 1963-1977 by Jerrold Orne,[3] incorporated as a not-for-profit education association in 1983, and assumed its current name in 1984.[4]
Todd Carpenter was appointed Executive Director of NISO in 2006.
The National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Societies (NFAIS) merged into NISO in 2019.
Contributions
NISO publishes technical reports, white papers, primers, and recommended practices as well as standards. See: Standards and Publications. NISO [1]
Further reading
- NISO website. [2]
- "Additional Description" In: University of Maryland. University Libraries. Archival Collections. National Information Standards Organization (NISO) records. 1949 - 1990. Collection 0113-MDHC. [3]
Papers
University of Maryland. University Libraries. Archival Collections. National Information Standards Organization (NISO) records. 1949 - 1990. Collection 0113-MDHC. [4]