The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members recently approved a new project to develop recommended practices for Packaging and Exchanging Serial Content. Many different organizations, including libraries, archives, and indexing services, work better and more efficiently when they exchange and work with digital files that make up serial content. However, these files are in some type of package that isn’t always the same or compatible.
This new NISO initiative will develop a recommended practice defining the rules to be used to create a package of serial content, allowing both the exchange of content and the automation of processes to receive and manage this content.
Knowledgespeak brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “NISO voting members approve new project to develop recommended practices for Packaging and Exchanging Serial Content.”
Melody K. Smith
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