The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of a new Technical Report, NISO TR-06-2017, Issues in Vocabulary Management. This document is one outcome of the NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Development Project, which was conducted in 2013-14 with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The technical report builds upon the work outlined in the 2014 project summary report Roadmap for the Future of Bibliographic Exchange by discussing policies supporting vocabulary use and reuse, documentation for vocabularies, and requirements for the preservation of RDF vocabularies.
The audiences for this technical report start with the communities NISO has brought together: libraries, publishers, and service providers. But beyond these communities, NISO aims for the document to help the many individuals and groups building and sharing bibliographic and other descriptive data, as well as knowledge managers within a variety of organisations using vocabularies to solve problems.
NISO TR-06-2017, Issues in Vocabulary Management is the result of efforts by three working groups and a steering committee, whose remits illustrate the breadth of the work involved. The Use/Reuse working group looked at policy and social considerations, including appropriate licenses and permissions, maintenance expectations, and versioning. The Documentation working group explored standards for documentation of vocabulary properties, particularly as it relates to discovery and usage, as well as governance and sustainability issues. The Preservation working group examined the landscape issue of 'orphan vocabularies,' where organisations abandon vocabularies for lack of funding or when the vocabularies cannot make the transition between print and digital.
NISO TR-06-2017, Issues in Vocabulary Management and related documents are available on the NISO website at http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/BibliographicRoadmap/.
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