**Apologies for cross posting** Are you attending the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in San Diego this month? If so, you’ll have a number of opportunities to engage in person with NISO! We hope to see you at one (or more!) of the NISO-hosted events and sessions below—all taking place at the San Diego Convention Center and free and open to registered ALA attendees.
All times Pacific (US/Canada)
Friday, June 28, 12:00—4:00 pm, Room 05 A
The Changing Standards Landscape: 17th Annual NISO/BISG Forum
This forum will explore the significant opportunities and existential threats that artificial intelligence poses for the book publishing industry. It will delve into the exciting potential for enhancing efficiencies, improving accessibility, and automating workflows. However, ethical flags will also be raised regarding representation biases, copyright, and privacy. This event offers insight into AI-informed publishing’s future while advocating for ethical and regulatory concerns.
Speakers: Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO; Rachel Comerford, Senior Director of Accessibility Outreach and Communication, Macmillan Learning; Thad Mcllroy, Electronic Publishing Analyst and Author, and President of The Future of Publishing; Barbara Kline Pope, Director, Johns Hopkins University Press; Judy Ruttenberg, Program Director, Association of Research Libraries; Robin Sloan, Author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore and Moonbound; and Tim Spalding, Founder, LibraryThing.
Saturday, June 29, 3:00pm–4:00pm, Room 06 E
The NISO Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP)
The NISO Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP) seeks to overcome serious barriers to wider implementations of cooperative collections management, including the lack of available vendor-neutral interoperable systems, adequate governance and decision-making frameworks, and assessment tools. This session will describe the project at a high level and also provide an update on recent actions that have been taken under the auspices of funding from IMLS, including NISO working groups creating a Recommended Practice, ITHAKA S+R research, and user interface prototyping.
Moderator: Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
Sunday, June 30, 10:30am–11:30am, Room 01 A
NISO’s CREC (Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern) Working Group
Retracted research is published work that is withdrawn or removed from the scientific and scholarly record. Retracted research integrated into the publication network via citations enables the inadvertent propagation of potentially unsupported or fabricated data, fundamental errors, and unreproducible results. The Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CREC) Working Group was formed to develop a Recommended Practice to improve communication in the supply chain around retractions and contribute to the maintenance of trust in the research and publication process.
Moderators: Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO; Nettie Lagace, Associate Executive Director, NISO
Sunday, June 30, 1:00pm–2:00pm, Room 01 A
NISO is buzzing with activity! Join us for our NISO Update, which will provide the latest news about NISO in general and our current projects, including standards, recommended practices, and community meetings covering many areas of interest to the library community. Working group members and NISO staff will provide updates on projects underway or recently completed, including KBART, Open Discovery Initiative, Transfer, Journal Article Versions, and Accessibility Remediation Metadata.
Moderator: Nettie Lagace, Associate Executive Director, NISO
Monday, July 1, 10:30am - 11:30am, Room 09
SeamlessAccess Update: What’s happening in the world of authentication to resources?
Join us for an update on the SeamlessAccess Project! This session will provide an update on the current state of the SeamlessAccess Project and discuss the roadmap for future work. We will also examine the changes and challenges happening in the world of authentication as browser vendors begin to make substantive changes to things like third-party cookie support, removal of link decorations, and obfuscation of IP addresses.
Speakers: Jason Griffey, Director of Strategic Initiatives, NISO; Justine Withers,
Electronic Resources Librarian, Miller Library Technical Services, Western New Mexico University
Again, all events are free and open to registered ALA attendees.You can also find us at Table #555 in the conference exhibits hall, so please stop by—we’d love to share more information about our work. We’re looking forward to seeing you soon in San Diego!
Best wishes,
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