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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 on October 29 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. (eastern time): 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. Please contact the NISO office ([log in to unmask]) if you need an international call-in number. Webinar sponsor: Ex Libris Cynthia Hodgson NISO Technical Editor Consultant National Information Standards Organization Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Phone: 301-654-2512