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Hi all,

Along with a small group consisting of leaders from top U.S. research
universities, Universiti Sains Malaysia
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the National Information Standards Organization
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(NISO),
and Invest in Open Infrastructure
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(IOI),
we are soliciting input from library staff on standards to facilitate open
knowledge exchange across scholarly infrastructures. It's a quick survey
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and should only take a few minutes. The survey is in English and in French.
Please feel free to answer in either language. Answers will inform work to
create a guideline and standard for the International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions
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(IFLA).The
purpose of this survey is to gauge support for such a standard and hear
from practitioners what's needed to ensure open knowledge exchange and
what's blocking implementation.

The events of recent months have illustrated more concretely why
interoperability of our open systems and infrastructure is needed. The
global pandemic and subsequent economic and racial crises have led to an
increased demand for more frictionless, equitable access to research and
knowledge to support shifts to online learning and research. As a result of
this massive shift, we’ve also witnessed the strain on shared open
infrastructure underpinning the research enterprise and scholarly
communication, such as content and data repositories.

Standards and interoperability specifications can, when thought of
systematically, help enable access to knowledge across our systems, as well
as resilience and redundancy should a service go down. But additional
clarity as to what standards to implement and what counts as an “open
knowledge system” is needed if we are to make progress towards a more
equitable and resilient means of sharing knowledge across institutions.

To help address this challenge, we have been working to create an IFLA
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standard
to act as a *“meta standard”*, one that highlights recommended existing
standards and guidelines to enable interoperability and open knowledge
sharing across systems, borders, and technologies. The focus of this work
is on interoperability and standards that enable and further open exchange
of information, knowledge and data across systems and technologies used
within the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum (GLAM) space.

We invite members of the IFLA community and other library staff to fill out
the survey linked here
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Doing so will help us gather information to present to the IFLA committee
for further development of this guideline. The purpose of this survey is to
ascertain the support for such a standard and to identify blockers to
implementation.

The survey will be open through *February 26, 2021*. If you have questions
or want to share your thoughts, please feel free to email us at
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