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A nonprofit association accredited as a standards developer by the American National Standards Institute, the national clearinghouse for voluntary standards development in the U.S. NISO has developed standards for Information Retrieval (Z39.50), 12083 (an SGML Tool), Z39.2 (Information Interchange Format), Codes for Languages and Countries, and Z39.18 (Scientific and Technical Reports). Go to Top
National Information Standards Organization. http://www.niso.org
National Information Standards Organization. A committee of the United States based National Information Standards Organization (NISO), in conjunction with the internationally known DAISY Consortium, is working on a specification for Digital Talking Books. This will serve as the next generation of information technology for persons who are blind and print disabled. At the heart of this specification is an XML DTD that incorporates the elements of structure needed to provide access to information. The specification goes on to define how the textual information can be synchronized with digitally recorded human speech through Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL), a recommendation of the W3C. The specification identifies six classes of books that have varying amounts of text mixed with audio. Most significantly, one class of book contains only text, with no recorded human speech. Access to the information would be through synthetic speech, refreshable braille or dynamically generated large print. www.niso.org
National Information Standards Organization. The organization concerned with accreditation of voluntary technical standards for librarianship, publishing, and information science.
National Information Standards Organization. NISO (U.S.) is a non-profit association that develops and promotes technical standards used in a wide variety of information services. NISO has developed standards for information retrieval such as the Z39.50 search protocol.
National Information Standards Organization. The accredited voluntary technical standards organization concerned with libraries, publishing, and information science.
National Information Standards Organization, the ANSI standards organization that deals with libraries, publishers, and information services.
National Information Standards Organization. The goal in using technical standards in information services, libraries, and publishing is to achieve compatibility and therefore interoperability between equipment, data, practices, and procedures. Using technical standards makes information services more productive.
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National International Standards Organization, a subgroup of ANSI, which prepares technical standards of importance to libraries and publishers, e.g., romanization of various alphabets, criteria for indexes, rules for serials holdings statements, book numbering, etc. (see Z39.2, for example).