Early bird discounted registration for the NISO forum, Next
Generation
Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards, has been extended to
March 19.
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
-- John G. Dove (Credo Reference) on The Future of Reference
in an
Online World
-- 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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