[Web4lib] Free NISO/BISG Information Standards Forum to Precede ALA Conference

[Cynthia Hodgson]

*Please join us for the second annual NISO/BISG Forum: *“The Changing 
Standards Landscape: Creative Solutions to Your Information Problems.” 
The forum, a partnership between the National Information Standards 
Organization (NISO) and the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) will 
immediately precede the American Library Association conference in 
Anaheim, CA

The half-day event – to be held on Friday, June 27^th , from 12:30 pm - 
4:00 pm in the Anaheim Convention Center, Room 304 A/B – will provide a 
big-picture look at the development and impact of common solutions-based 
standards for librarians and publishers. Explaining why standards are 
important for your organization and how you can get involved, the 
program will focus on the preparations under way to build standards for 
tomorrow's digital supply chain.

NISO’s Managing Director, Todd Carpenter, and BISG’s Executive Director, 
Michael Healy, will lead the forum through three main areas of standards 
development:

-- Identify & Describe
-- Discover & Retrieve
-- Comply & Use

To discuss these ever-changing and growing areas of standardization will be:


-- Brian Green, Executive Director, EDItEUR
-- Annie Callanan, President & CEO, Bowker
-- Tina Feick, Consultant and Co-Chair, NISO I2 (Institutional 
Identifiers) Working Group
-- Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked 
Information (CNI)

Additional speakers are being confirmed, and topics will include 
identifiers for digital publications, authors, and institutions; 
standards for delivering online book content and knowledge bases; and an 
update on ACAP and ONIX-PL.

For more information on this free forum, visit 
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/ala08/nisobisg08/or contact Karen 
Wetzel, NISO Standards Program Manager, at kwetzel at niso.org 
<mailto:kwetzel at niso.org>.


Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson at niso.org
Phone: 301-654-2512