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Business Information
Topic Committee

Committee Description

The NISO Business Information Committee was formed in early 2007 in response to a strategic restructuring. As part of NISO's organizational structure, topic committees that bring together leaders in specific subjects have been created to provide direction to the organization for standards development in those umbrella topic areas. The Business Information Topic Committee focuses on issues regarding the management structure surrounding the acquisition, licensing, purchasing, and analysis of information. Specific areas include: license expression, online usage data, access management, performance measures and other statistics, etc.

The topic committee is charged with the following tasks:

  • Track standards development within NISO and in other standards organizations related to the topic.
  • Identify where new standards may provide solutions in their specific area.
  • Convene Thought Leader meetings to incubate new standards activities.
  • Create and provide guidance and oversight to standards working groups under their purview.
  • Manage the five-year reaffirmation process for approved standards.

The work of this group is complemented by NISO's Content & Collection Management Topic Committee, Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee, and Architecture Committee.

Committee Roster

Committee Co-chairs

  • Kathleen Folger
    Senior Associate Librarian
    University of Michigan Library
    kfolger@umich.edu
    Term: 6/30/09-6/30/11
    (Joined the topic committee in 2007)
  • Helen Szigeti
    Business Development Manager
    HighWire Press, Stanford University
    hszigeti@stanford.edu
    Term: 6/30/09-6/30/11
    (Joined the topic committee in 2007)

Committee Members

Ivy Anderson
Director of Collections
California Digital Library
Ivy.Anderson@ucop.edu
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10

John Carlo Bertot
Professor and Associate Director
Information Use Management Policy Institute
jcbertot@ci.fsu.edu
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10

Johan Bollen
Staff Researcher
Los Alamos National Laboratory
jbollen@lanl.gov
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10

Denise M. Davis
Director
Office for Research & Statistics
American Library Association
dmdavis@ala.org
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10

Herbert Gruttemeier
External Relations
INIST Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique
Herbert.gruttemeier@inist.fr
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10

Karla Hahn
Director, Office of Scholarly Communication
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
karla@arl.org
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10

Helen Henderson
Managing Director of Information Power
Ringgold
helen@ringgold.com
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10

Steve Hiller
Director of Assessment and Planning
University of Washington Libraries
hiller@u.washington.edu
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10

Tim Jewell
Director, Information Resources and Scholarly Communication
University of Washington Libraries
tjewell@u.washington.edu
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10

Ex Officio Members