[Web4lib] What's in a Name? NISO Webinar to Discuss Identifiers for Institutions, Public Identities, and Researchers

[Cynthia Hodgson]

The fifth webinar in NISO's Demystifying Standards series will focus on 
Identifiers and feature presentations on three different three different 
identifier projects.

Since NISO held its Digital Identifiers Roundtable 
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/niso/past/ID-06-wkshp) in March 2006, 
there have been a great deal of developments in this area. The findings 
from that meeting—that information exchange between systems 
requires identifiers that are based on public standards, both for shared 
used of the identifiers and to prevent collisions between identifiers 
that are developed in different contexts, and that long-term 
sustainability of identifiers requires community and institutional 
support backed by viable business models—still hold. Without broad 
consensus on the properties, use, and application of identifiers, 
however, identifiers will not be able to live up to the promise that 
they hold forth to ease and improve information exchange for publishers, 
content providers, and libraries alike.

Speakers for the webinar:

Helen Henderson (Managing Director, Ringgold, Ltd.) will provide an 
Introduction to Identifiers.

Tina Feick (Director of Sales and Marketing, North America, 
Harrassowitz) and Grace Agnew (Associate University Librarian for 
Digital Library Systems, Rutgers University Libraries) are co-chairs of 
the NISO Institutional Identifiers/ /project 
 (http://www.niso.org/workrooms/i2) to develop a standard institutional 
identifier that can be implemented in all library and publishing 
environments.

Reynold Guida (Director, Product Development, Thomson Reuters) and Ellen 
Rotenberg (Manager, Product Development, Thomson Reuters) will review 
the Researcher ID that uniquely identifies scholarly researchers and 
facilitates the identification of potential collaborators.

Andy Weissberg (GM, Identifier Services, R.R. Bowker) will discuss the 
ISO project, nearing completion, to create an International Standard 
Name Identifier (ISNI) to uniquely identify parties and their public 
identities.

The webinar will provide attendees with ample opportunity for questions 
during the event and will follow posting the questions asked during the 
event and their answers on this website following the webinar. Register 
now at the event website. 
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/webinars/identifiers.
ALCTS members may register at the NISO member rate.

Ex Libris is generously sponsoring this webinar.

This message was cross-posted.

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