The Critical Component: Standards in the Information Exchange Environment—eEditions e-book

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$55.00

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Item Number:

978-0-8389-8745-2

Published:

2015

Publisher:

Core

Pages:

312

Format:

eBook

Description
Table of Contents
About the Author

Introduction
Cindy Hepfer
Chapter 1. The Value of Standards for Information Exchange
   Todd A. Carpenter

Chapter 2. How Formal Should We Be? The Standards Continuum and the Standards Development Pipeline
   Cynthia Hodgson
Case Study. The Digital Object Identifier: From Ad Hoc to National to International
   Norman Paskin

Chapter 3. The Information Standards Landscape
   Nettie Lagace
Case Study. Everything Old is New Again: ISSN in the Digital Environment
   Regina Romano Reynolds

Chapter 4. Basic Standards Concepts
   Mark Bide
Case Study. Accessibility for Everyone
   George Kerscher

Chapter 5. This Thing Is Not That Thing: The Role of Identifiers in Content Management and Distribution
   Laura Dawson
Case Study. I2 and ISNI: Expanding the Use of an Identifier to Serve Multiple Needs
   Janifer Gatenby

Chapter 6. Describing Resources for Discoverability and Reuse
   Diane I. Hillmann
Case Study. Development of Dublin Core
   Thomas Baker

Chapter 7. Discoverability: The Ultimate Goal
   Marshall Breeding
Case Study 7. Providing Appropriate Access
   Adam Chandler

Chapter 8. Ensuring Digital Preservation for Future Generations
   Lisa Gregory
Case Study. Portico: Using Standards for Scholarly Content Preservation
   Kate Wittenberg, Sheila Morrissey, and Amy Kirchhoff

Chapter 9. Marketing Your Standard from Idea to Brand to Practice
   Heather Staines and Robert Boissy
Case Study. EPUB 3: The Birth and Adolescence of an Unusually Visible Standard
   Bill Kasdorf

Chapter 10. Getting Involved with Standards
   Ted Koppel
Case Study. How One Standard—COUNTER—Drove the Need for Another—SUSHI
   Oliver Pesch and Peter Shepherd

Chapter 11. The Future Need for Standards Will Only Expand
   Todd A. Carpenter

Todd A. Carpenter

Todd A. Carpenter is executive director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). Todd brings to this role more than twenty years of publishing, digital content distribution, business development, and library community experience.

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