Information Discovery & Interchange Topic Committee | NISO website Skip to main content User account menu Member Login Search Menu Main navigation Home What We Do Welcome To NISO Directory Staff Board Members Leadership Committees Architecture Committee Information Creation & Curation Information Discovery & Interchange Information Policy & Analysis DEI Committee Strategic Plan NISO Policies and Procedures Annual Reports Press Releases and Announcements Awards Contact Join NISO NISO Membership Roster NISO Voting Member Benefits Pay your NISO Dues or Invoice Join NISO Library Standards Alliance NISO Membership Dues Explore Explore by Topic Explore by Publication Type Events Upcoming Past Events NISO Plus NISO I/O All ISQ Most Recent Newsline Press Releases Short hits Tweets Type Standards Committees Standards & Publications Information Standards Creating NISO Standards Information Standards In Practice Standards Timeline International Standards Schemas Home Topic committees Information Discovery & Interchange Topic Committee Committee Description The NISO Information Discovery & Interchange Topic Committee was renewed by the NISO Board of Directors in June 2017 (and was originally formed as the Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee in early 2007 in response to a strategic restructuring).  As part of NISO's organizational structure, topic committees that bring together leaders in specific subjects have been created to provide direction to the organization for standards development in those umbrella topic areas. The Discovery & Interchange Topic Committee focuses on issues regarding the finding and distribution of information by and to users, including indexed discovery services, linked data, OpenURL, interface design, web services, etc. The topic committee is charged with the following tasks: Track standards development within NISO and in other standards organizations related to the topic. Identify where new standards may provide solutions in their specific area. Convene Thought Leader meetings to incubate new standards activities. Create and provide guidance and oversight to standards working groups under their purview. Manage the five-year reaffirmation process for approved standards. The work of this group is complemented by NISO's Information Policy & Analysis Topic Committee, Information Creation & Curation Topic Committee, and Architecture Committee. Published in February 2015: D2D-commissioned white paper on The Future of Library Resource Discovery, written by Marshall Breeding Roster Co-chairs: Christine Stohn Peter Murray Members: Scott Bernier Robert Boissy Mark Dehmlow John Dove Doralyn Rossmann Bob Schulz Jan Waterhouse Julie Zhu Board liaison: Greg Suprock NISO staff: Todd Carpenter, Nettie Lagace The following NISO standards and recommended practices fall under the Information Discovery & Interchange Topic Committee. Active Groups: Flexible API STandard for E-content NISO (FASTEN) Working Group KBART (Knowledge Base And Related Tools) Standing Committee NCIP (NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol) Standing Committee ODI (Open Discovery Initiative) Standing Committee ResourceSync Standing Committee (NISO/OAI) (SIP) Standard Interchange Protocol Working Group Standards and Recommended Practices: ANSI/NISO Z39.50-2003 (S2014), Information Retrieval : Application Service Definition & Protocol Specification ANSI/NISO Z39.74-1996 (R2012), Guides to Accompany Microform Sets ANSI/NISO Z39.83-1-2012, NISO Circulation Interchange - Part 1: Protocol (NCIP) ANSI/NISO Z39.83-2-2012, NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) Part 2: Implementation Profile 1 ANSI/NISO Z39.88-2004 (R2010), The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services ANSI/NISO Z39.89-2003 (S2014), The U.S. National Z39.50 Profile for Library Applications ANSI/NISO Z39.92-200x Information Retrieval Service Description Specification (DSFTU) NISO RP-2005-01, Ranking of Authentication and Access Methods Available to the Metasearch Environment NISO RP-2005-02, Search and Retrieval Results Set Metadata NISO RP-2005-03, Search and Retrieval Citation Level Data Elements NISO RP-2006-01, Best Practices for Designing Web Services in the Library Context NISO RP-2006-02, NISO Metasearch XML Gateway Implementers Guide NISO RP-11-2011, ESPReSSO: Establishing Suggested Practices Regarding Single Sign-On NISO RP-12-2012 Physical Delivery of Library Resources NISO RP-19-2014, Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery NISO RP-21-2013, Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics (IOTA): Recommendations for Link Resolver Providers NISO TR-05-2013, IOTA Working Group Summary of Activities and Outcomes NISO RP-22-2015, Access License and Indicators Inactive/Completed Groups: Access & License Indicators Working Group IOTA (Improving OpenURL Through Analytics) Working Group Metasearch Initiative Task Group 1 - Access Management (Committee BA) Task Group 2 - Collection Description (Committee BB) Task Group 3 - Search/Retrieve (Committee BC) Physical Delivery of Library Resources Working Group SSO (Single Sign-on) Authentication Working Group Privacy Policy © 2021 National Information Standards Organization 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Ste. 302 Baltimore, MD 21211 Phone: (301) 654-2512 nisohq@niso.org Contact