On June 4, NISO will hold a one-day forum on “Metadata in a Digital Age: New Models of Creation, Discovery, and Use” before the opening of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) conference June 5-8 in Phoenix, AZ. This session will cover the role that metadata plays in the lifecycle of content, from publisher to end user, including looking at the shifting bibliographic supply chain, various needs that metadata answers, and questions around exchange processes and how different metadata is used.
NASIG incoming president Jill Emery said, “NASIG welcomes this opportunity to partner with NISO by bringing their insights and standards development together with NASIG’s 2008 Annual Conference: Taking the Sting out of Serials (http://www.nasig.org/conference/2008/). Our conference this year is focused on finding best practices for serials management, and NASIG is excited to invite NISO to present a rich pre-conference program reflecting their commitment to help make all information management easier and more reliable through standards application. NASIG hopes that this collaboration will lead to more such programs in the future.” Emery is Head of Acquisitions at the University of Texas Libraries.
Speakers at the NISO pre-conference forum include:
– Kevin Cohn, Director of Client Services, Atypon Systems, Inc.
– Tiffany Coker, Director, Product Management, ScholarOne, Thomson Reuters
– Les Hawkins, Serial Record Division, Library of Congress
– Helen Henderson, Managing Director of Information Power, Ringgold
– Regina Reynolds, Head, U.S. ISSN Center, National Serials Data Program, Library of Congress
– Steven C. Shadle, Serials Access Librarian, University of Washington
Additional presenters are being finalized. Visit the NASIG conference site (http://www.nasig.org/conference/2008/) for registration, hotel information, and more.
The NISO Metadata forum is generously sponsored by Swets Information Services.
