This year’s annual NFAIS Forethought Strategic Summit focuses on the critical issue of developing systems that continue to add value to scholarly communication. For content providers and their vendors alike, the ongoing transformation from technology to support the handling of text (submission, review, editing, formatting, organization, storage, distribution, and discovery), to technology optimized for support of the new content types, formats, and interactions, is challenging. For example, who remembers now what a piece of code or its associated metadata, which were developed years ago, look like? How many schemas have been brought in at different times? How do you manage — and meet — the needs of multiple stakeholders, internal and external? 

Please join us on June 16 (10.15am - 2.30pm ET) and 17 (10.15am - 1.45pm ET) for a series of talks, followed by discussion, on this important topic by information industry experts Daniel Ayala, Secratic; Cindi Blyberg, OCLC; Mark Gross, Data Conversion Laboratory; Lauren Kane, Morressier; John Shaw, SAGE Publishing; Chris Shillum, ORCID; and others to be confirmed. 

Topics to be covered include: 

• Why Publishing Systems and Platforms Require Re-Engineering

• The Old and the New: Anticipating Requirements

• Re-Thinking Products and Systems

• Planning: Engaging with your IT Group

• Building for the Future: Interoperability

• Managing the Risks

• Future Proofing the System

Registration includes an unlimited number of attendees from your organization (with reduced rates for NISO and NASIG members), so be sure to mark your calendar and sign up now.

We hope to see you there!

Best wishes

The NISO Team