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NISO/DLF Workshop: May 10 in Chicago On May 10, 2002 NISO and the Digital Library Federation will co-sponsor a half-day pre-standardization workshop to examine standards needed to facilitate the management of electronic resources. The workshop will be held in Chicago at the Wyndham Hotel. The workshop is free to all NISO members and DLF Sponsors. Advance registration is required. Why this Workshop? Libraries (particularly academic libraries) are investing major portions of their acquisitions dollars in electronic information resources. As these electronic collections grow they are becoming increasingly difficult to manage and few existing library management systems provide tools to address contract management, umbrella subscriptions, and license terms. For some libraries the solution is local development of new databases. At this relatively early stage NISO and DLF want to begin the process of developing a standard set of data definitions and common XML schema, encompassing a standard set of data elements, names and definitions, and the semantic relationships for these elements. Who should attend: ILS vendor staff, staff involved in electronic resource management and collection development, serials vendors, and intermediaries. Details on the Workshop, the agenda, and a registration form are on the NISO website at this url: http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/NISO-DLF-wkshp.html The Workshop has been planned by Cilla Caplan (Chair of the NISO SDC) and Tim Jewell (University of Washington), who maintains a web-hub for sharing e-resource management metadata: http://www.library.cornell.edu/cts/elicensestudy/home.html