The ISSN National Centres of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Panama plus the ISSN International Centre (ISSN-IC) will organize an information session on August 5th at 4 p.m. (Brasilia Time) at the kind invitation of the Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT). The discussion will focus on ISSN services to publishers, ISSN-IC 2024 Strategy, current activities during COVID-19 crisis and statistics regarding serial publications addressing COVID-19 issues. Participants are invited to connect to the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/IBICTbr/featured
ISSN IC @ 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries (20 July 2020)
The ISSN International Centre will participate in the 2020 LD4 free online Conference on Linked Data in Libraries. Deanna White, ISSN IC Project Officer, will give a presentation entitled “Liberté, Egalité et Free Données : The Use of Linked Data at the ISSN International Centre”. She will share information about data models implemented in the ISSN Portal. Please check the schedule at https://ld42020.sched.com/ and register!
Second FDIS ballot for ISO standard 3297
ISO standard 3297 – ISSN is currently undergoing a systematic revision process which is about to be terminated with a second FDIS ballot that opened on June 26th, 2020 and will close on August 21st. Through this ballot, ISO member organisations will vote on the amendments to the ISSN standard and approve the publication of the sixth version of the standard.