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October is a busy month at the National Information Standards Organization! Our program covers the CREC Recommended Practice, maximizing discovery across platforms, a training series on text and data mining, and the 2023 NISO Tech Summit on open science. We kick off the month on Tuesday, October 3, with the NISO Plus Forum on AI and Machine Learning in Scholarly Publishing: Services, Data, and Ethics—there’s still time to register!

ON-SITE EVENT | REGISTRATION DISCOUNTED FOR NISO MEMBERS

NISO Plus Forum 2023

Tuesday, October 3, 8:30 am–5:00 pm EDT (US/Canada)

American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC

The theme of our second NISO Plus Forum is a timely one—AI and Machine Learning in Scholarly Publishing: Services, Data, and Ethics. The event features a format organized around “World Cafe” discussions, with the focus primarily on practical work in small groups to help shape NISO’s standards development priorities. It’s a great opportunity to share perspectives with a diverse group of colleagues from across the information industry.

For more information, including a preliminary program, see the NISO Plus site. Registration is discounted for NISO members.

PUBLIC COMMENT WEBINAR | FREE AND OPEN TO ALL

Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CREC) Recommended Practice

Tuesday, October 10, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm EDT (US/Canada)

Retracted research—published work that is withdrawn, removed, or otherwise invalidated from the scientific and scholarly record—can be, and often is, inadvertently propagated within the digital scholarly record through citations. These citations are more likely to happen when content is “silently” withdrawn or when the process for effectively communicating retractions at all publication lifecycle stages is unclear.

Since summer 2022, NISO's CREC Working Group has been at work to create a Recommended Practice to address and provide a community-driven solution to this issue. The Recommended Practice is now in a draft state, ready to be shared with and receive feedback from the public. Join members of the CREC Working Group as they discuss the project, the draft’s current status, and seek input from the community.

Confirmed speakers: Caitlin Bakker, Discovery Technologies Librarian, University of Regina; Rachael Lammey, Head of Strategic Initiatives, Crossref; and Jodi Schneider, Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

This event is provided as a public service at no cost to the information community, but please register to attend. The recording will be shared with all registered attendees.

MONTHLY ROUNDTABLE WEBINAR | FREE FOR NISO MEMBERS 

Building Connectivity Between Diverse and Diffuse Resources

Wednesday, October 11, 11:00 am–12:30 pm EDT (US/Canada)

Scholarly outputs reside on a variety of platforms—institutional repositories, discipline-specific preprint servers, and commercially owned services such as GitHub or Figshare. How do you maximize discovery and monitor usage of a scholarly output when it may not be hosted in a single location? The participants in this round table discussion will help us brainstorm how to build the best solution together to this challenge for scholars, researchers, information professionals, and students

Moderator: Gabriela Mejias, Community Manager, Datacite

Confirmed speakers include Maria Cotera, Partnerships Development Manager, Figshare; Mike Nason, Publication Support Specialist/Metadata/Crossref Liaison, Public Knowledge Network and University of New Brunswick; and Polinho Mota, Data Coordinator, data_labe.

Registration is not required for NISO members. Non-NISO members, please register (includes unlimited attendees from your organization). The recording will be shared with all registered attendees.

Text and Data Mining | Online Training Series

Thursdays, 11:00 am–12:30 pm EDT (US/Canada)

October 12–December 7, 2023

This virtual training series will equip students with the essential skills and knowledge required to undertake text and data mining tasks. The comprehensive course will introduce participants to key concepts and tools of text and data mining, including data types, data structures, data pre-processing, text processing, data mining techniques, text mining techniques, and advanced topics in both data and text mining. Each session will include a Python component, discussing the importance of Python and its libraries in handling various aspects of text and data mining. 

Event Sessions

The series consists of eight weekly segments, each lasting 90 minutes. Specific dates are October 12, 19, and 26; November 2, 9,16, and 30; and December 7.

Training Facilitator: William Mattingly, Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution’s Data Science Lab

See the NISO website for more information and to register. Discounts are available for NISO Voting Members/LSA Members. Early bird registration deadline is Thursday, September 28, 2023. Recordings will be available for those who cannot attend the live broadcast(s). Please note that it is not possible to register for individual program segments or lectures.

NISO Tech Summit | Two-Day Virtual Event

Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 10:00 am–1:30 pm EDT (US/Canada)

Thursday, October 26, 2023, 10:00 am–1:30 pm EDT(US/Canada)

In January of this year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) launched a significant milestone in the science and technology arena when it unveiled the Year of Open Science. As we approach the conclusion of this pivotal year, NISO’s Technology Summit brings this topic center stage to reflect on  this multi-agency endeavor and its far-reaching impacts. 

The summit will constructively critique the role of technology and supporting organizations in either facilitating or impeding the progress toward open science. We’ll consider which existing systems were prepared to embrace the declaration’s ideals and which required new implementations. Furthermore, we’ll explore how library and publishing communities seized the opportunity presented by the Year of Open Science and how we can collectively strive for improvement.

Confirmed speakers (others TBA) include Caitlin Carter, Program Manager, HELIOS; Jason Griffey, Director of Strategic Initiatives, NISO; Mark Hahnel, CEO and Founder, Figshare;  Nicole Pfeiffer, Chief Product Officer Center for Open Science (COS); Greg Tananbaum, Director, Open Research Funders; and Keith Webster, Dean of University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University.

See the NISO website for more information and to register. Discounts are available for NISO Voting Members/LSA Members. Recordings will be available for those who cannot attend the live broadcast(s). 

We hope to see you soon at one of these upcoming events. In the meantime, remember to visit our events page for the latest on programs, speakers, and additional professional development opportunities!

Best wishes

The NISO Team

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