“The NISO Web Services and Practices Working Group, after spending several months on its charge to create a best practices document, has concluded that the time is not right for this group to complete this task. The current web services landscape is still in development and the group feels it is too early to write such a backwards-facing document. Members of this group came together, largely drawn from the then-inactive VIEWS group, expecting various things, from a VIEWS-like survey of problem areas needing standards to a narrow focus on a particular area of difficulty to a state-of-the-universe overview. The group feels that there are problems in the library/web services interface that need to be tackled with standards efforts, such as system frameworks and architecture (particularly around connecting) and an e-framework in the e-learning area. There is strong consensus that NISO would benefit in some areas from working with existing efforts (such as the UK-based e-learning efforts) and in some cases in using its vantage point in the standards world to identify areas in which a broader set of standards, perhaps starting as an extension of existing standards, might bring wider usage and constituency.”
Link: http://www.niso.org/committees/Services/Services_comm.html