National Information Standards Organization
NISO
A US non-profit developing technical standards for publishing, bibliographic, and library information services.
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is a United States non-profit standards body that develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards related to publishing, bibliographic data, and library applications. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), NISO produces standards such as Z39.50, OpenURL, JATS, and COUNTER that are widely used across libraries, publishers, and information service providers to ensure interoperability and consistent metadata practices.
Standards (8)
ANSI/NISO Z39.105-2023, Content Profile/Linked Document
(CP/LD)Transforms scholarly content into self-describing, machine-actionable linked documents using HTML and JSON-LD.
Contributor Roles Taxonomy
(CRediT)A taxonomy of fourteen roles capturing how each contributor participated in scholarly research.
Journal Article Tag Suite
(JATS)An XML tag set for marking up the full text and metadata of scholarly journal articles.
KBART: Knowledge Bases and Related Tools
(KBART)Standardizes how publishers share holdings data with library knowledge bases and link resolvers.
NISO Metadata for Images in XML
(MIX)An XML schema for recording technical metadata about digital still images in preservation workflows.
NISO Standards Tag Suite
(NISO STS)An XML tag suite extending JATS for encoding the full text and metadata of standards documents.
OpenURL
A standardized URL syntax for transporting bibliographic metadata to context-sensitive link resolvers.
Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol
(Z39.50)A client-server protocol enabling standardized search and retrieval across remote library databases.
