Early bird registration for the NISO forum, Next Generation
Discovery:
New Tools, Aging Standards, ends on March 12. Be sure to
register by
then to take advantage of the substantial discounts. NISO
members are
eligible for additional discounts.
This two-day event will take place on March 27-28, 2008 at
the Friday
Center Conference Center in Chapel Hill, NC. One-day
regisration is also
available.
The forum will focus on the search-driven and network- (or
browse)
driven discovery tools and if standards are keeping pace
with the next
generation of tools. The speakers and topics for the forum
are:
-- Opening Keynote by Richard Akerman, Technology Architect
and
Information Security Officer, National Research Council of
Canada,
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
-- Robert J. Sandusky, (Richard J. Daley Library, University
of Illinois
at Chicago) on Deep Indexing and Discovery
-- Mike Teets (OCLC) on Identities, xISBN, and xISSN
-- Ralph LeVan (OCLC) on Search Web Services (SWS)
-- Vinod Chachra (VTLS) on Harvesting Data In Multiple
Formats For
Discovery
-- Karen Hawkins (IEEE) on Scitopia
-- Peter Murray (OhioLINK) on Discovery Tools & the OPAC
-- Michael Winkler (University of Pennsylvania Libraries) on
PennTags
-- Eric Schnell (The Ohio State University) and-Dave Munger
(ResearchBlogging.org) on BPR3: Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed
Research
Reporting
To register or for more information, visit the event webpage
(http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/discovery08/
) or contact
Karen Wetzel, NISO Standards Program Manager, at kwetzel niso.org.
/Thank you to our generous sponsors: EBSCO Information
Services and Ex
Libris are major sponsors of the Discovery Tools forum and
Innovative
Interfaces is sponsoring the breaks./
Note: This announcement was cross-posted.
Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgsonniso.org <mailto:chodgsonniso.org>
Phone: 301-654-2512
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