NISO's New Z39.50 Profile Standards Activity

[Excuse the cross-postings to the ZIG List, the Bath Profile List, and
the TZIG List.  Please forward to others if appropriate.]

The National Information Standards Organization has established a
standards committee (Standards Committee AV) to produce a National
Z39.50 Profile for Library Applications. This new work will build on
recent state, national, and international profiling efforts to improve
Z39.50 use in library applications.  The national profile will be a
compatible superset of The Bath Profile: An International Z39.50
Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery. The NISO
profile will extend the Bath Profile specifications to address specific
national search and retrieval requirements.  NISO will ballot the draft
national profile through its regular standards development and approval
procedures. The result will be an American National Standard. The work
on the national profile and its approval are expected to be completed by
Summer 2001.(Full press release at:
<http://www.niso.org/PR-profile.html>)

COMMITTEE'S WEBSITE:
The first meeting of the Standards Committee AV is November 3-4, 2001 in
Irving, Texas.  To ensure access to information about the work of the
committee, there is a Standards Committee AV website at:

	<http://www.unt.edu/zprofile>

The website will have information about the committee, summaries of its
meetings, and drafts of the proposed National Z39.50 Profile. The roster
of the committee is at:  
<http://www.unt.edu/zprofile/NISOProfileCommitteeRoster.htm>

COMMITTEE'S ONLINE DISCUSSION LIST:
There is also an online discussion list for use by the committee and
other interested parties.  
 
To subscribe, send a message to:
        listserv@unt.edu
in your email message,put in:
        subscribe z3950profile <Firstname Lastname>
You will receive a notification from the listserv software if your
subscription is processed properly.  Remember, you will only be able to
post to the list from the email address you subscribed from. Only folks
subscribed will be able to post messages.

Thank you.

Cheers,
Bill Moen
Standards Committee AV Chair