In June 2013, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded NISO a grant to undertake a two-phase initiative to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics in the community. The NISO Altmetrics Project has successfully moved to Phase Two, the formation of three working groups, A, B, & C. Working Group B, led by Kristi Holmes, PhD, Director, Galter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University, and Mike Taylor, Senior Product Manager, Informetrics at Elsevier, is focused on the Output Types & Identifiers within the alternative metrics landscape. 

Speakers participating in this free event, to be held on November 16 from 11 am to 1 pm (ET) will highlight examples of the work being done in this area:

• BioCADDIE - Peter McQuilton, Knowledge Engineer/Senior Research Associate, Oxford e-Research Centre, University Of Oxford; Philippe Rocca-Serra, Technical Project Leader, Oxford e-Research Centre, University Of Oxford

• ORCID - Tom Demeranville, THOR Senior Project Officer & ORCiD Software Engineer

• Data-Level Metrics with DataCite - Martin Fenner, Technical Director, DataCite

• Bibliometrics for Data – what counts and what doesn’t? - Dr. Sarah Callaghan, Senior Researcher and Project Manager, British Atmospheric Data Centre

• FORCE 11 Attribution: Getting (and giving) credit for all that we do - Dr. Melissa Haendel, Associate Professor, Ontology Development Group, OHSU Library, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University

• NISO Working Group “B” - Kristi Holmes, PhD, Director, Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University; Mike Taylor, Senior Product Manager, Informetrics, Elsevier 

For more information and to register for this free event, visit the event webpage.