NISO Educational Events – June 2017 

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NISO Webinar

Enabling Discovery and Retrieval of Nontraditional and Granular Output

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern)

Nicole Johnson, Product Manager, Digital Commons, bePress; Ruth Pickering, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer, Yewno; and Gerald Benoit, Associate Professor, Simmons School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College.

For more on this event, visit the NISO event page.

To register online, use this form.

NISO Virtual Conference

Images: Digitization and Preservation of Special Collections in Libraries, Museums, and Archives

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 
11 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Eastern)

This virtual conference will focus on a variety of practical concerns surrounding digitization efforts and long-term preservation of images in the digital environment. It will spotlight the International Image Interoperability Framework and similar initiatives in the ongoing digitization of special collections (such as maps, manuscripts, etc.) for purposes of scholarship. Are we achieving the goals established 20 years ago? What has been established by the community as appropriate guidelines and/or the best practices for these activities? In addition to images, new digital output (three-dimensional renderings, virtual exhibits, etc.) are becoming more commonplace. Is the institutional repository the right place to house such scholarship, or is there a new kind of space needed for such special collections?

An outstanding speaker roster includes:

·      Edward M. Corrado (participating in his personal capacity), Associate University Librarian, Dudley Knox Library, Naval Post Graduate School

·      Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist, Stanford University Libraries, and Stuart Snydman, Associate Director for Digital Strategies, Stanford University Libraries 

·      Chad Hutchens, Head, Digital Collections, University of Wyoming

·      Julia Corrin, University Archivist, Carnegie Mellon University

·      Chris Strasbaugh, Digital Resource Archivist and Curator, The Ohio State University

For more on this event, visit the NISO event page.

To register online, use this form.

NISO-BISG 11th Annual Forum, ALA

Delivering the Integrated Information Experience

Friday, June 23, 2017

12:00 Noon – 4:00pm

Metadata: The information community can’t function effectively without it. High-quality metadata drives publishers’ marketing efforts and enables libraries’ support for discovery. Whether one is operating in the publishing supply chain or in library tech services, distribution and ingestion of complete, accurate, and explicit metadata is key to success. It fuels every patron’s information activity and subsequent assessment of satisfaction and usage.

But best practices for creating and delivering metadata across the varied spectrum of those who use it are not always followed. And it’s not just about books. Metadata must be applied to the full range of content formats—research data, recordings, and more. In a variety of settings and systems, metadata sustains the information needs of an increasingly mobile population.

During the NISO-BISG Changing Standards Landscape Forum, attendees will hear from industry professionals working elbow-deep in identifiers, subject classification, rights, and other metadata that drive an integrated user experience. What steps are content providers taking to ensure that:

• They provide high-quality metadata?
• Feeds are appropriately ingested when transferred between systems?
• Usage will be maximized and licensed rights observed?

Only through the development, adoption, and use of community standards can we be assured that the information flow to the user is all that it should be.

For more on this event, please visit the NISO event page.

The NISO-BISG Forum is free to registered attendees of the ALA Annual Meeting; however, we would like to get a sense of who will be in the audience. Please RSVP your intention to be with us on-site through this brief form.

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