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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 14:46:04 -0400

Date: May 14, 2014

Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern time

Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/resolvers/

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ABOUT THE WEBINAR

Link resolvers have become an important element of providing access to
full-text electronic content and are now ubiquitous in both the
library and publishing community. These systems work well enough a
majority of the time. However, they are not entirely problem free, and
as a result users may not always obtain access to information which
their institutions have licensed for them. The management of the large
volumes of linking data necessary to support these services is a
problem in scale as well as in detail. Several NISO projects have
sought to improve the reliability of these systems, including the
Knowledgebases and Related Tools (KBART) and Improving OpenURL through
Analytics (IOTA) initiatives.

This webinar will highlight these NISO projects and other community
initiatives, such as GOKb, launched to create community-managed
knowledge base repositories.

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

* KBART: A Recommended Practice to Increase Accessibility and
Discovery – Christine Stohn, Product Manager, Ex Libris

* Building the Global Open Knowledgebase – Kristen Wilson, Associate
Head of Acquisitions & Discovery / GOKb Editor, North Carolina State
University Libraries

* What We Learned about OpenURL in NISO’s IOTA Initiative – Adam
Chandler, Electronic Resources User Experience Librarian, Cornell
University

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00
pm Eastern on May 14, 2014 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are
available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library
Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part
of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar
contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are
listed here:

http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance.

If you would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire
year’s webinars as part of membership, information on joining is
listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/) All webinar
registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded
version for one year.

Visit the event webpage to register and for more information:

http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/resolvers/

Cynthia Hodgson, NISO, [log in to unmask]