- From: ZENG, MARCIA <mzeng@kent.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:02:24 -0400
- To: "public-xg-lld@w3.org" <public-xg-lld@w3.org>
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Hi, group, I am attaching the comments to the NISO I2 Midterm Report here. Thanks for everyone who contributed to the discussion and comments. Cheers, Marcia From: <ZENG>, "ZENG, MARCIA" <mzeng@kent.edu> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:40:52 -0400 To: <public-xg-lld@w3.org> Conversation: Institutional Identifier Re: [Digipres] NISO Seeking Feedback on Institutional Identifier Midterm Report -- responses needed by August 2 Subject: Re: Institutional Identifier Re: [Digipres] NISO Seeking Feedback on Institutional Identifier Midterm Report -- responses needed by August 2 Hi, all, The comments from the members of the LLD XG were put into one WORD document and sent to Cynthia Hodgson" <chodgson@niso.org> this afternoon. The text on in the wiki page at: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/NISO-I2 Regards, Marcia From: <ZENG>, "ZENG, MARCIA" <mzeng@kent.edu> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:35:50 -0400 To: Cynthia Hodgson <chodgson@niso.org> Cc: Emmanuelle Bermes <emmanuelle.bermes@bnf.fr> Conversation: Comments from the LLD XG Re: [Digipres] NISO Seeking Feedback on Institutional Identifier Midterm Report -- responses needed by August 2 Subject: Comments from the LLD XG Re: [Digipres] NISO Seeking Feedback on Institutional Identifier Midterm Report -- responses needed by August 2 Dear Cynthia and the NISO I2 WG, Enclosed please find the comments to the I2 Midterm Report from the members of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group (LLD XG). The document was brought into the attention of the LLD XG by Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library and went through discussions of the members during last month. Please note that given the tight deadline, the comments have not been approved by the group as a whole. Because I put the discussions on a wiki page, I became the person who send out this comment to you. Please let us know if you have any questions. Marcia Zeng From: "Cynthia Hodgson" <chodgson@niso.org> Date: July 12, 2010 4:28:11 PM CEDT To: "Cynthia Hodgson" <chodgson@niso.org> Subject: [Digipres] NISO Seeking Feedback on Institutional Identifier Midterm Report -- responses needed by August 2 Reply-To: <chodgson@niso.org> The NISO Institutional Identifier (I2) Working Group (WG) has released a midterm report: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/i2/midtermreport/ The NISO I2 WG is soliciting feedback on the report and guidance for the next steps in developing this standard from individuals and groups involved in the digital information transactions. Stakeholders include publishers/distributors, libraries, archives, museums, licensing agencies, standards bodies, and service providers, such as library workflow management system vendors and copyright clearance agencies. Anyone involved at any level in the distribution, licensing, sharing or management of information is invited to participate. Please read the information below and participate in the evaluation of our midterm work by reading the midterm release document and answering a few questions about each development area. You are the stakeholders for this information standard. We must work to ensure that it meets your needs, so your input is very valuable and important to us. BACKGROUND: NISO established the working group in 2008 to develop an institutional identifier (I2) to uniquely identify institutions engaged in the digital information workspace. The goal of the I2 Working Group is to develop an institutional identifier that is globally unique, robust, interoperable, scalable and able to integrate smoothly with current digital information workflows. The working group is currently at the midterm of its efforts and hopes to complete its draft specification by December, 2010. Community input was requested through surveys and conferences to refine the objectives, create the metadata and identify scenarios of need. We are currently soliciting midterm review to provide confirmation of our work to date, course correction as needed and to ensure that we have identified and are addressing all the issues surrounding this critical enabling standard. THE PROBLEM SPACE: Obtaining, using, sharing, storing and managing information often involves multiple institutions across the digital information space. These institutions must be able to identify each other and to trust that the identification is both correct and unique. The information managed may itself be digital (e.g., the licensing of an e-book) or analog information that is managed over the digital information space (e.g., interlibrary loan of a physical book). Currently, there are many identifiers in use, ranging from simple naming to established codes. However, no single identifier that is globally unique, trustworthy, and able to capture relationships among institutions and variant legacy identifiers for institutions currently exists. As a result, transactions are locked into proprietary workflow silos and management of all the digital information activities of an institution are not integrated. THE PROPOSED SOLUTION: The I2 is proposed as a globally unique, robust, scalable and interoperable identifier with the sole purpose of uniquely identifying institutions. The I2 consists of two parts: an identifier standard that includes the metadata needed to uniquely identify the organization -- including documenting relationships with other institutions that are critical for establishing identity -- and a framework for implementation and use. The I2 is envisioned as a simple, core identifier with the sole purpose of identifying institutions in a robust and trustworthy manner. Workflow-specific implementations, such as regional ILL collaborations or ebook licensing services, will leverage the I2. THE BENEFIT: Institutions will only have to request and reuse a single identifier. Institutions will be able to robustly identify every institution engaged in an information transaction. Institutions that engage in many different information transactions or that work with many different institutions will be able to track and manage institutional activities across multiple workflows through the use of a single, authoritative identifier. The Midterm status report and review survey are available at the following link. Please respond by August 2, 2010. http://www.niso.org/workrooms/i2/midtermreport/ Thank you very much for your support of this lynchpin digital information standard. Your input is very valuable to us and will be carefully studied and considered. Please download the report and keep it open to assist you in completing the survey. [Note: This message has been cross-posted to obtain wide input.] Cynthia Hodgson NISO Technical Editor Consultant National Information Standards Organization Email: chodgson@niso.org Phone: 301-654-2512
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