In April 2001, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) convened a workshop on Networked Digital Reference Services. The workshop was attended by a diverse group of stakeholders representing the library and information community who explored what standards are needed to facilitate the development and implementation of Digital Networked Reference Services that can operate across international and geographic boundaries. A report on the workshop is available and includes summaries of and links to nine presentations given in open session and three discussion group sessions on protocol issues, knowledge base issues, and profiling issues. The report also identifies stakeholders who should be involved in next steps, existing models that may help in developing appropriate standards, and a group of interlinked standards that might be developed. The report is available on the NISO website http://www.niso.org/news/reports/netref-report.html.

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"NISO Issues Report on Networked Digital Reference Services," ARL, no. 219 (December 2001): 6, http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br219/br219niso.shtml.