2017	Membership	Meeting
NISO	Annual	Report	
of	2016	Activities
Todd	Carpenter
Executive	Director,	NISO
2017	Membership	Meeting	Overview
• Simplifying	NISO
• Restructuring	NISO	Topic	Committee	&	
Standards	Portfolio
• NISO	Website
• NISO	Training	and	educational	activities
• Financial	update
• Open	discussion	of NISO	activities
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“I	don’t	understand	…”
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Z39.19
Z39.46
Z39.99
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ISO	3166
ISO	2108
ISO	8
ISO	28560-2KBART
ODI
ALMI
RA21
Standards
Recommended	Practices
Procedures
Acronyms
Numbers
Groups
Names
?????
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NISO	Website	doesn’t	help
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A	website	is	your	front	door
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An	entrance	shouldn’t	be	this
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Simplify	
Reorganize
Act
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What	value	does	NISO	add?
Engagement
Interoperability
Education
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What	value	does	NISO	add?
• Engagement: NISO	enables	libraries,	
publishers,	and	vendors	to	collaborate	and	
solve	problems	of	mutual	interest	by	providing	
a	neutral	forum	in	which	they	can	engage	and	
build	consensus
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What	value	does	NISO	add?
• Interoperability: NISO	supports	choice	and	
efficiency	across	our	community	by	promoting	
interoperability	of	information	products	and	
services	through	standards	and	best	practices
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What	value	does	NISO	add?
• Education: NISO	keeps	our	community	up	to	
date	by	publishing	news,	running	educational	
programs,	and	providing	thought	leadership
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Reorganize
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Background																									.
• NISO’s	original	sorting
• Unequal	distribution	of	existing	work
• Hindering	focus	on	new	projects	by	CCM
• What	gets	put	in	which	group?
• Line	between	the	TCs	is	unclear
The	original	concepts
• People
• Organizations
• Collections
• Information	
Objects
• Identification
• Policies
• Transactions
• Formats
• Repositories
• Discovery	&	
Delivery
• Space
• Business	
Information
• Management
• Network
• Environment
Topic	Committee	Sorting	Exercise
Reorganizing	NISO’s	Topic	Committees
• Information	Policy	&	Assessment
• Information	Creation	&	Curation
• Information	Discovery	and	Interchange
• Physical	Management	of	Information
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Act
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New	NISO.org Coming	Soon!
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NISO	Information	Organized
NISO	i/o
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Very	Positive	Membership	Trends	
Currently 81	voting	members	- Net	(+17)	from	2014
Reversing	a	long	downward	trend
NINE	new	Voting	Members	in	2016/2017	
Apex	CoVantage,	LLC
ASTM	International	
Cabell's
Code	Ocean
Duke	University	Press
Hypothes.is
IOP	Publishing
Springer/Nature
Taylor	&	Francis
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Continuing	Positive	Membership	Trends
Growth	in	LSA	Membership	continued	in	2017,	albeit	
slowing	somewhat
Currently	138	LSA	Members
10	new	in	2016
6	new	in	2017	so	far
9	non-renewals	in	2016/17
Up	from	only	31	LSA	members	in	2011!
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Membership	trends	1998-2016
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0
50
100
150
200
250
1998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016
LSA…
Voti…
Financial	Update	- Income
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Note: 2012 figures
are projections.
Other figures from
audits
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$(200,000)
$-
$200,000
$400,000
$600,000
$800,000
$1,000,000
$1,200,000
1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016
NISO REVENUES Sublease Income
Investment Income
Workshops/other
Revenues
Publications
Revenue/Subscripti
ons
Grants
Dues
Financial	Update	- Expenses
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are not yet available
in this breakdown.
Other figures from
audits.
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$-
$200,000
$400,000
$600,000
$800,000
$1,000,000
$1,200,000
1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016
NISO EXPENSES
Fundraising
General &
Administrative
Goverance
Membership
Services
Program
Services
International
Standards
Development
Publications
Standards	Completed
• Altmetrics	Recommended	Practice(NISO	RP-25-2016)	–
PUBLISHED
• Updated	Version	of	ResourceSync Framework	Specification	
(ANSI/NISO	Z39.99-2017)	– PUBLISHED
• Draft	STS:	Standards	Tag	Suite	– released	for	public	comment	
• Draft	Technical	Report,	Issues	in	Vocabulary	Management	–
released	for	public	comment	
• Understanding	Metadata"	Primer	published
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2016	- New	standards	projects
• LAUNCHED:
– New	joint	project	on	Resource	Access	in	the	21st Century	in	
partnership	with	International	STM	Association
– New	Projects	to	develop	a	Flexible	API	Framework	for	E-Content	in	
Libraries	
– New	Project	to	Develop	Recommended	Practice	for	Tracking	Link	
Origins	
– Undertake	a	Framework	on	Data	and	Privacy	in	partnership	with	
Research	Data	Alliance
– Revision	of	Bibliographic	References	standard
– Revision	of	library	binding
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Into	2016	- New	standards	projects
• PROJECTS	UNDER	DISCUSSION:
– Recommended	Practice	for	Text	&	Data	Mining	Services
– Discovery	of	Open	Access	content
– Packaging	and	transfer	protocol	for	the	
– Certification	of	repository	
– Packaging	identifieres
– Systematic	reviews	
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Educational	Programs	for	2016/17
• Monthly	webinar	series	- 16	events
– 1,000+	sites	registered in	2016,	+6%
– Average	of	nearly 4	people	per	site
• 6	Virtual	Conferences
– Added	Training	Thursdays	Great	success
• Launched	Working	Group	Connections	Live
• Sold	Out	XML	standards	for	Standards	Publishers
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New	Educational	Program	in	2017
• New	program:	NISO	In-depth	training
• An	eight	week	online	course	providing	information	
on	how	to	appropriately	use	APIs	in	the	library	and	
publishing	community.
• Beginning	in	September,	running	through	November
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Open	Discussion
Questions	/	Comments
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Thank	you!
Todd	Carpenter
Executive	Director
tcarpenter@niso.org
Nettie	Lagace
Associate	Director,	Programs
nlagace@niso.org
Jill	O’Neil
Educational	Programs	Manager
joneill@niso.org
Henrietta	Verma
Senior	Editorial	Specialist
hverma @niso.org
DeVonne Parks
Membership	Services		&	Engagement	Manager
dparks@niso.org
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Tel.: (301) 654-2512
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