Forthcoming ISO Ballots

November 2016

NISO Voting members participate in the development, revision, and evaluation of standards. Voting members are able to influence the standards process and mold the future of the industry. The following NISO ballots are open and will close before the next newsletter is distributed. If you are a NISO Voting Member, log into your NISO page and you'll see the ballots linked there.

SHORT TURN-AROUND BALLOT: Call for participation in the Working Group that Will Revise ISO 3297:2007 Information and documentation - International standard serial number (ISSN)

The results of the ballot on the systematic review of the ISSN standard, ISO 3297, were published at the end of September, 2016. 17 P-Members voted in favor of the revision and 10 P-members appointed experts to participate in the Working Group that is now being formed as a result of the systematic review.

This call is for U.S. nominees to the Working Group. Participation on ISO working groups is generally done via e-mail and teleconference or videoconference. Occasionally, the WG may meet in person in conjunction with a TC46 meeting week, but attendance at the in-person meetings is not required for participation.

SHORT TURN-AROUND BALLOT: Appointment of Ms. Gaëlle Béquet as Convenor of the Working Group that Will Revise ISO 3297:2007 Information and documentation - International standard serial number (ISSN)

The International ISSN Center has nominated Ms. Gaëlle Béquet as convenor of the working group. Ms. Béquet was appointed as Director of the ISSN International Centre in 2014. She has previously worked as International Officer and ICT specialist in academic libraries. She holds a PhD in library and information science from University Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Systematic Review of ISO 9:1995 (Ed 2, vers 3) Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages

This is a ballot for the five-year systematic review of the standard. This International Standard establishes a System for the transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters constituting the alphabets of Slavic and non-Slavic languages, in accordance with the principles of stringent conversion in Order to permit international information exchange, particularly by electronic means.

Systematic Review of ISO 9985:1996 (vers 3) Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Armenian characters into Latin characters

This is a ballot for the five-year systematic review of the standard. This International Standard establishes a system for the transliteration of the modern Armenian alphabet into Latin characters, in accordance with the principles of stringent conversion in order to permit international information exchange, particularly by electronic means.

Systematic Review of ISO 15919:2001 (vers 3) -- Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters

This is a ballot for the five-year systematic review of the standard. This International Standard provides tables which enable the transliteration into Latin characters from text in Indic scripts which are largely specified in rows 09 to 0D of UCS (ISO/IEC 10646-1 and Unicode).

Systematic Review of ISO 259-2:1994 (vers 3) Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Simplified transliteration

This is a ballot for the five-year systematic review of the standard. This part of ISO 259 specifies a simplified System for the transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters. This simplification of the stringent rules established by ISO 259:1984 is especially intended to make easier the processing of bibliographic information (catalogues, indices, citations, etc.).

Systematic Review of ISO 259:1984 (vers 4) Documentation -- Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters

This is a ballot for the five-year systematic review of the standard. This International Standard establishes a system for the transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters following the principles of stringent conversion in order to permit international information exchange.

Systematic Review of ISO 233-2:1993 (vers 5) Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Arabic language -- Simplified transliteration

This is a ballot for the five-year systematic review of the standard. This part of ISO 233 establishes a simplified System for the transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters. This simplification of the stringent rules established by ISO 233:1984 is especially intended to facilitate the processing of bibliographic information (e.g. catalogues, indices, citations, etc).

Systematic Review of ISO 233:1984 (vers 4) Documentation -- Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters

This is a ballot for the five-year systematic review of the standard. This International Standard establishes a system for the transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters following the principles of stringent conversion in order to permit international information exchange.