On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Todd Carpenter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Good afternoon, Bibliographic Exchange community,
>
> Last fall, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation generously awarded the National
> Information Standards Organization (NISO) with a grant to support an
> initiative that will develop a community roadmap toward a new bibliographic
> exchange environment. This roadmap will help support movement toward a
> future of bibliographic information exchange ecosystem.

So NISO is taking over coordination of bibliographic information
standards from the Library of Congress? Has the LC agreed to cede the
field?

For all of its lack of transparency and other problems, at least the
LC isn't a "pay to play" organization like NISO. The Mellon
Foundation could have subsidized the recent outrageously expensive
BIBFRAME webinar instead. That probably would have done more to
advance the cause in the immediate term than an 18 month study
resulting in a report and no software, standards, or any other work
product.

Adding an additional group to the fray as a way to improve
coordination reminds me of this strip: http://xkcd.com/927/

Tom

p.s. How much was the grant for? I'm curious what the going rate for
a meeting, 4 teleconferences, and a final report is these days.