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Announcement: NISO Launches RFID Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cynthia Hodgson)
Tue Mar 28 21:32:58 2006
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:36:42 -0500
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From: Cynthia Hodgson <chodgson@NISO.ORG>
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NISO Launches RFID Committee
The National Information Standards Organization has formed a Technical
Committee to create guidelines that lay out best practices for the use of
radio frequency identification (RFID) in library applications. Chaired by
Dr. Vinod Chachra, CEO of VTLS Inc., the diverse group is composed of RFID
hardware manufacturers, solution providers (software and integration),
library RFID users, book jobbers and processors, and related organizations.
The NISO Committee's work is limited to RFID tags used in libraries, that
is, tags operating at 13.56 MHz.
This best practices document will form a part of a larger input document on
U.S requirements for the ISO TC 46 working group developing a standard data
model for encoding information on the tag. The group will also coordinate
with American Library Association/Book Industry Study Group working group
around the interaction of technology and privacy issues.
"The new RFID standards must help us achieve interoperability within the
library industry and application isolation across industries," explained Dr.
Chachra. "First, the interoperability must be at the tag level, so that tags
from various suppliers or from different libraries can be used by the RFID
hardware in the library. Interoperability must also be achieved at the
hardware level, where hardware from different suppliers can work with the
tags already in the library books. Second, we must have vertical application
isolation among different industries. In other words, we do not want CDs
purchased at a store to trigger library security gates and library books to
set off alarms at grocery stores. Most importantly, we much achieve these
goals while protecting personal privacy."
The committee evolved from an exploratory group formed at the October 2005
RFID Technologies Institute, which was jointly sponsored by NISO and the
Center for Digital Knowledge at the University of North Texas-Denton.
For additional information, contact NISO at nisohq@niso.org.
Cynthia Hodgson
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson@niso.org
Phone: 301-654-2512
