The Architecture Committee of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published its 2018 update of the NISO Strategic Directions document which will be used by its leadership groups, the NISO Topic Committees, to direct the future development portfolios of standards and recommended practices.
The three NISO Topic Committees--Information Creation & Curation, Information Discovery & Interchange, and Information Policy & Analysis--produced a list of general trends and themes in their respective areas of work, noting these information issues affecting libraries, publishers, system vendors and other members of the information distribution community. The document describes the inter-relations between these community stakeholders and, in some cases, potential overlaps in committee work. The NISO Topic Committees are using the updated 2018 Strategic Directions document to prioritise potential future activities where NISO should be engaged in developing new standards and recommended practices.
The NISO Framework was developed in 2007 as an overarching model and roadmap for NISO's standards work. To refresh the Framework, every few years, the NISO Architecture Committee and the Topic Committees that work under its guidance undertake a comprehensive review of their current and recent portfolios and discuss their overall scopes of work. This most recent review was augmented with a public stakeholder survey, which led to a restructuring of the Topic Committees to better ensure they appropriately address gaps in the information standardization landscape. After the Topic Committees reorganised with new names and modest shifts in their portfolios, they turned to updating the Strategic Directions document to ensure they are focused on the most current, developing and influential areas of work.
The NISO 2018 Strategic Directions document is available on the NISO website at: https://www.niso.org/publications/niso-strategic-directions-2018.
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