From: NISO Announce <[log in to unmask]> 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/ =============================================================== 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 E: [log in to unmask]