The voting members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved three new projects to develop standards to better support exchange and interoperability of bibliographic data. These projects were identified as high priorities in NISO's Bibliographic Roadmap pre-standards initiative, which was funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The goal of that project was to collectively determine the needs and requirements of the new bibliographic framework in a global, networked information environment and to develop community consensus for a roadmap of activities needed in this space.
Following the issuance of the Bibliographic Roadmap final report in April 2014, NISO's Content and Collection Management (CCM) Topic Committee evaluated the recommendations and prepared a new work item proposal focusing on three of the top prioritised areas: Vocabulary policies on use and reuse, Vocabulary documentation, and Vocabulary preservation requirements.
The approved proposal for the vocabulary projects and the final report from the Bibliographic Roadmap project are available on the NISO website at: www.niso.org/topics/tl/BibliographicRoadmap/.
