From: Cynthia Hodgson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 14:04:58 -0400


NISO/BISG 8th Annual Forum:  The Changing Standards Landscape:
Managing an Increasingly Complex and Interconnected World of Content

Date: Friday, June 27, 2014
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Las Vegas, NV, LVCC - N231-233

Event Description

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and Book
Industry Study Group (BISG) have again partnered to explore how these
trends impact publishing, libraries, and technology standards in the
8th Annual Changing Standards Landscape Forum. This year’s event will
focus on Managing an Increasingly Complex and Interconnected World of
Content.

Digital content creation, distribution, and access is a worldwide
endeavor that is much more complex than printing and shipping physical
books or journals. Identification, description, file formats,
purchasing models, and measurement have all been transformed by the
trends of globalization and digitization of content distribution. For
each of these trends, the role of standards in making these processes
more efficient is a critical element and something all publishers and
librarians should follow closely. Both communities have a lot to learn
from each other regarding how standards work undertaken in the
publishing community affects libraries and vice-versa.

Agenda

* Welcome and Introductions – Todd Carpenter, Executive Director,
National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and Len Vlahos,
Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group (BISG)

* Thema: The New Global Standard for Subject Classification – Julie
Morris, Project Manager: Standards & Best Practices, BISG Linked
Content Coalition: Rights Management Tools – Linked Content Coalition
Board Member

* EPUB: Walled Gardens and the Readium Foundation – Readium Foundation
Representative

* New Forms of Discovery and Purchasing in Libraries: Demand Driven
Acquisitions – Michael Levine-Clark, Professor / Associate Dean for
Scholarly
Communication and Collections Services, University of Denver Libraries

* Where Digital is Going? E-book Adoption by the Numbers – Len Vlahos,
Executive Director, BISG

* Assessing Digital Output in New Ways – Mike Taylor, Research
Specialist, Elsevier Labs

Registration

Please RSVP  here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S7CVTZ3. This event
is free of charge; however, we would like to get an estimated count of
attendance for logistical purposes. For more information, visit the
event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/alaannual/2014nisobisgforum/

This event is sponsored by Bowker, a ProQuest affiliate.

Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
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