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
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