NISO 2013 Year in Review

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October2,2011 Oversight: Content and Collection Management Topic Committee Co-chairs: Ken Haase (beingmeta, inc.) and Dan Whaley (hypothes.is) Final Grant Report: Standards Development Workshops on E-Book Annotation Sharing and Social Reading Following discussion meetings funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation held in October 2011 in Frankfurt, Germany, and San Francisco, CA, a working group was formed to address the system requirements and syntax specification for online citation and annotation sharing. SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) Oversight: Business Information Topic Committee Co-chairs: Bob McQuillan (Innovative Interfaces) through July 2013 and Oliver Pesch (EBSCO Information Services); Marie Kennedy (Loyola Marymount University) became Co-chair in January 2014 ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2013, The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol NISO RP-14-2012, COUNTER-SUSHI Implementation Profile This Standing Committee provides maintenance and support for The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol (ANSI/NISO Z39-93) and acts as the maintenance group for the COUNTER schema by providing recommendations to COUNTER and making changes to the COUNTER XML schemas (as approved by COUNTER).