1. 1 Participation in the ResourceSync NISO Work Item Nettie Lagace NISO Associate Director for Programs nlagace@niso.org March 6, 2012

2. 2 (Generic) Standards Development Phase 1: Idea to Proposed Work Item Phase 2: Approved Work Item Phase 3: Creating Work Plan Phase 4: Work Plan to Draft Standard Phase 5: Working Draft to DSFTU/Ballot Phase 6: Approval Phase 7: Maintenance

3. Proposed ResourceSync Timeline October 2011: Project approved for funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation December 2011: Approved by NISO Voting Members February 2012: Core team first meeting March 2012-May 2012: Verification of use cases; specification of requirements; experimentation/quantitative evaluation of candidate technologies April 2012: Project Update at CNI Spring meeting, Baltimore June 2012: In-person meeting planned following JCDL, June 14-15 July 2012: Alpha draft of specification; early tools, libraries and other implementation demonstrations July 2012: Planned Update at Open Repositories, Edinburgh September 2012: Beta draft of specification; public draft standard for trial use; release of demonstrators and review November 2012: Respond to public commentary, begin finalizing specifications January 2013: Specifications stable; tools and libraries released February 2013: Approval by NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee, Release to NISO members for balloting and member input 3

4. Joining the technical committee Private mailing list Review materials from Core Team; be able to participate with use cases, responses, critiques, especially testing Periodic (monthly?) phone calls with Core Team Invited to in-person meetings (likely in U.S. - however Sloan funding doesnt cover travel) –Teleconference/WebEx capabilities also available Please let us know if you are interested in joining! If nothing else, we want to keep in touch for you to be able to vet this work Hash tag: #resourcesync / Public mailing list http://www.niso.org/workrooms/resourcesync/ 4