Documents/NISO/2: Standards Life Cycle

2.1.2: Standards Life Cycle

Work across the entire life cycle of an information standard.

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NISO's standards work will range from identifying need for a new standard tomaintaining a mature one. In this regard, NISO will:• act as a standards incubator helping to identify and articulate the need fornew information standards, and selecting the most promising for furtherdevelopment• identify nascent standards developed elsewhere and provide the supportnecessary to grow them into fully mature standards that are widelyimplemented• provide maintenance support that allows standards to change in concertwith evolving need• provide support for communities that wish to develop and maintain theirown standards in a manner that ensures their quality, integrity, reliability,and useWork at each of these stages will include education and support activities asnecessary to effective and inclusive standards development and use.

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