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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 12:23:58 -0500

NISO Two-Part March Webinar: Is Granularity the Next Discovery Frontier?

Part 1: Supporting Direct Access to Increasingly Granular Chunks of Content

Date: March 11, 2015
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern time

Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/granularity_pt1/


Part 2:  The Business Complexities of Granular Discovery

Date: March 18, 2015
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern time

Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/granularity_pt2/

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NISO will be holding a two-part webinar on March 11 and 18 to explore
the question, Is Granularity the Next Discovery Frontier?

The rise of the Discovery System in the library world has helped to
streamline searching for end users by providing them with search
functionality that more closely resembles search engines like Google
than traditional database searches. But with this streamlined search
comes added expectations from users about their ability to drill down
into content and retrieve more granular pieces of information—anything
from book chapters and individual letters to the editor to specific
graphs and images could conceivably be retrieved in a more granular
search.

Users are beginning to expect more granular search and access in
Discovery System searches -- encyclopedia articles, images, tables,
book chapters. The implications for discovery system providers,
content providers, and libraries to realize this vision are
significant. These granular "objects" each have to be retrievable
separately from the parent object and each has to have its own
metadata and indexing. What is needed to ensure that discovery systems
can retrieve and display information below the publication or article
level? What is the role of the content provider and the library in
this scenario? How do libraries help end users find and use this
content?

This two-part NISO Webinar for March will examine the many
implications of an increasingly granular discovery environment.

ABOUT PART 1: Supporting Direct Access to Increasingly Granular Chunks
of Content

In Part 1: Supporting Direct Access to Increasingly Granular Chunks of
Content, this webinar will discuss the implications of granular
content for user search interfaces and discovery engines.

Topics and speakers are:

* Working with Metadata Challenges to Support Granular Levels of
Access and Descriptions - Myung-Ja Han, Assistant Professor/Metadata
Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois

* How Discovery Services are Meeting Evolving Granular Discovery User
Needs - Tito Sierra, Director of Product Management, EBSCO Information
Services

ABOUT PART 2: The Business Complexities of Granular Discovery

Part 2 will look at The Business Complexities of Granular Discovery,
and presenters will discuss the implications of granular content
discovery for the business side of the equation.

Topics and speakers are:

* Enabling discoverability into specific segments of multimedia –
Andrea Eastman-Mullins, Chief Operating Officer, Alexander Street
Press

* The Business side of Making Granular Discovery Work  – Dan Valen,
Product Specialist, figshare

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00
pm Eastern on March 11 for Part 1 and March 18 for Part 2 (the days of
the webinars). 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: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:
www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/.)

All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the
recorded version for one year. You can register for either or both
parts. There is a 25% discount if registering for both. Visit the
event webpages to register and for more information:

Part 1: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/granularity_pt1/

Part 2: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/granularity_pt2/


Juliana Wood, Educational Programs Manager
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302
Baltimore, Maryland 21211
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