FW: LITA Standards Interest Group Program at the Midwinter ALA 2006

["Han, Yan" <hany@u.library.arizona.edu>]

LITA Standards Interest Group Program at the Midwinter ALA 2006

Date: January 21, 2006 (Saturday)
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Room: Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center - 088B

1.      New standards updates: (4:00 PM - 4:40 PM)

a.  Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) 
<http://www.library.cornell.edu/cts/elicensestudy/ermi2/sushi/> by Tim 
Jewell (University of Washington). Other members of the SUSHI group will 
be on hand to answer questions informally after the official meeting is 
adjoined.

Managing usage statistics for online content face both challenges and
opportunities.

b.  License Expression Working Group, by Nathan Robertson (University of 
Maryland) The group is jointly sponsored by DLF, EDItEUR, NISO, and PLS.

c.  RFID standards and Issues Progress Report, by Dr. Vinod Chachra, CEO 
VTLS Inc and Chairman of NISO's working group on RFID standards.

d.  Vendor Initiative for Enabling Web Services (VIEWS) 
<http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html> by Candy Zemon 
(Polaris Library Systems)

VIEWS is an initiative by vendors and library service organizations aimed 
at the enabling of web services between disparate applications used in 
libraries.

2.      ISBN-13 transition (4:40PM - 5:30PM)

a.  Library of Congress will provide its insights about the changes.

b.  Innovative (Theodore A. Fons) will review the requirements and 
technical challenges facing ILS vendors for the implementation of the 
ISBN13 changes in the Integrated Library System industry.

c.       OCLC will describe its current implementation of ISBN-13 and
its plans for implementing more fully in 2006.

Yan Han, M.S. Computer Science, MLIS
Systems Librarian
The University of Arizona Libraries
520-307-2823
hany@u.library.arizona.edu