From: NISO <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:04:54 -0400

NISO In-Person Forum: Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution
Platform: Challenges and Opportunities

DATE: October 21 - 22, 2014

LOCATION: University of Chicago Booth School of Business – Gleacher Center

Livestream option also available for remote attendance (all in-person
and remote registrants receive access to the recorded version)

EVENT WEBSITE: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/forum_2014/

ABOUT THE FORUM

Web technologies have changed, and continue to change, the way that
content is delivered to libraries and to users. Currently e-journals
are delivered through platforms but the final object is still often a
PDF file. E-books are generally delivered as a downloadable file to a
stand-alone e-reader. However, with the advent of the Open Web
Platform using standards such as HTML5, we are looking at a new era of
separating the content from the container. The web as a distribution
platform offers many new opportunities for more utilization of
multimedia and streaming media, embedding of apps, increased linkages
and interoperability between related content, greater interactivity
with content, social sharing of user-generated content related to a
“publication,” text mining, and much more that hasn’t even been
imagined yet.

TOPICS & SPEAKERS

(Detailed agenda available at:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/forum_2014/agenda_chicago/)

Day 1

Keynote Speaker – Timo Hannay, Managing Director, Digital Science

History and Legacy Systems – Bruce Rosenblum, CEO, Inera, Inc.

Production and Implementation – Barry Bealer, RSi Content Solutions

Current Implementations Looking Towards Next Generation Systems – Jake
Zarnegar, Silverchair

Next Generation Systems

Gregg Gordon, President and CEO, Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, SVP, Journal and Data Solutions, Elsevier

Future Work

Alberto Pepe, Associate Research Scientist at Harvard University and
Co-founder of Authorea

Maryann Martone, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience, University of
California, San Diego

Day 2

Panel discussion: What Librarians want in a Discovery Platform –
Moderated by Sommer Browning, Discovery Access Librarian, University
of Denver

Retooling Metadata Around Linked Data Principles

John Mark Ockerbloom, Digital Library Architect and Planner,
University of Pennsylvania

Jeff Penka, Director of Channel and Product Development, Zepheira

Educational Publishing, Platform Providers, and E-Reserves – Speaker TBA

Closing Address: Looking Toward the Future – R. David Lankes, author
of The Atlas of New Librarianship, professor and Dean’s Scholar for
the New
Librarianship at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies;
Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse

REGISTRATION & INFORMATION

Discounts for both in-person and livestream are available to NISO and
SSP (Society for Scholarly Publishing) members and for students.

An early bird registration discount for in-person attendees is
available through October 7, 2014. There are separate registration
links on the webpage for in-person and live streaming registrations.
Live streaming registration is per site (access for one computer). All
registrants, in-person and livestream, will receive access to the
recorded version of the forum for one year.

Visit the event webpage for more information and to register:

http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/forum_2014/

If you have additional questions about the forum or the livestream,
please contact [log in to unmask]

Note: Live streaming success is dependent on many factors, some of
which are outside NISO's control. We are not anticipating any
particular issues with the live streaming technology for this event,
but if problems occur and the Forum is inaccessible for the streaming
attendee(s), we will communicate a schedule for refunds, based on the
circumstances.

Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
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