Book Review: The Critical Component: Standards in the Information Exchange Environment

Abstract

The value of standards for information exchange / Todd A. Carpenter -- How formal should we be? : the standards continuum and the standards development pipeline / Cynthia Hodgson -- Case study. The Digital Object Identifier : from ad hoc to national to international / Norman Paskin -- The information standards landscape / Nettie Lagace -- Case study. Everything old is new again : ISSN in the digital environment / Regina Romano Reynolds -- Basic standards concepts / Mark Bide -- Case study. Accessibility for everyone / George Kerscher -- This thing is not that thing : the role of identifiers in content management and distribution / Laura Dawson -- Case study. I2 and ISNI : expanding the use of an identifier to serve multiple needs / Janifer Gatenby -- Describing resources for discoverability and re-use / Diane I. Hillmann -- Case study. Development of Dublin Core / Thomas Baker -- Discoverability : the ultimate goal / Marshall Breeding -- Case study. Providing appropriate access / Adam Chandler -- Ensuring digital preservation for future generations / Lisa Gregory -- Case study. Portico : using standards for scholarly content preservation / Kate Wittenberg, Sheila Morrissey and Amy Kirchhoff -- Marketing your standard from idea to brand to practice / Heather Staines and Robert Boissy -- Case study. EPUB 3 : birth and adolescence of an unusually visible standard / Bill Kasdorf -- Getting involved with standards / Ted Koppel -- Case study. How COUNTER drove the need for SUSHI / Oliver Pesch and Peter Shepherd -- Future need for standards will only expand / Todd A. Carpenter.