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#NISO just announced a new #standard "enabling the combination of arbitrary portions of content, data, semantics, & other resources from separate sources [e.g. articles, books, data sets, metadata schemes] into a single, standards-based format optimized for interchange, search, & display."
niso.org/publications/z39105-2

The new standard supports "machine-actionable #FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) materials."
niso.org/standards-committees/

The National Information Standards Organization #NISO today announced publication of its newest standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.105-2023, Content Profile/Linked Document (CP/LD), which enables portions of content, #data, #semantics, and other resources from separate sources to be combined into a single, standards-based format optimized for interchange, search, and display. #KM #libraries #standards niso.org/press-releases/niso-r

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Keeps me up at night (from @juancommander)

* The overly simplistic and technocratic definition of Open Science that is being adopted—a hugely missed opportunity that I fear we will never recover from

* The often well-meaning adoption of open science practices that ultimately lead to greater inequalities and the extraction of resources from the already marginalized

The event page: niso.org/events/trend-spotting

1/2 PKP's Co-Scientific Director, Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander, will speak to what excites him, and what keeps him up at night, during the event tomorrow. Here's a sneak-peek from Juan himself in preparation.

Most excited by:

* The attention paid to initiatives from the Global South

* The growing voices of research infrastructures in shaping the research landscape

* The increased ability to discover scholarship from everywhere in the world, in all languages, into search engines

PKP is pleased to be participating in the National Information Standards Organization () webinar on Trend Spotting and Trend Setting. You are invited to join us with this fantastic guest-list, December 13th:

* Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander PKP/#ScholCommLab, SFU

* Alison Denby, Oxford University Press

* Cindy Hohl, Kansas City Public Library/American Library Association

* Daniel Hook, Digital Science

* Karin Wulf, John Carter Brown Library/Brown University

niso.org/events/trend-spotting

PKP is pleased to be participating in the National Information Standards Organization () webinar on Trend Spotting and Trend Setting. You are invited to join us with this fantastic guest-list, December 13th:

* Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander PKP/#ScholCommLab, SFU

* Alison Denby, Oxford University Press

* Cindy Hohl, Kansas City Public Library/American Library Association

* Daniel Hook, Digital Science

* Karin Wulf, John Carter Brown Library/Brown University

niso.org/events/trend-spotting