NISO Discovery Tools Forum – Early Bird Registration Ends March 12

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Date:  Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:22:26 -0500
From:  Cynthia Hodgson (NISO) <chodgson_at_niso.org>
Subject:  NISO Discovery Tools Forum – Early Bird Registration Ends March 12


Early bird registration for the NISO forum, “Next Generation Discovery: 
New Tools, Aging Standards,”
ends on March 12. Be sure to register by then to take advantage of the 
substantial discounts. NISO
members are eligible for additional discounts.

This two-day event will take place on March 27-28, 2008 at the Friday 
Center Conference Center
in Chapel Hill, NC. One-day registration is also available.

The forum will focus on the search-driven and network- (or browse) 
driven discovery tools and if
standards are keeping pace with the next generation of tools. The 
speakers and topics for the forum are:

-- Opening Keynote by Richard Akerman, Technology Architect and 
Information Security Officer,
National Research Council of Canada, Canada Institute for Scientific and 
Technical Information

-- Robert J. Sandusky, (Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois 
at Chicago) on Deep Indexing
and Discovery
-- Mike Teets (OCLC) on Identities, xISBN, and xISSN

-- Ralph LeVan (OCLC) on Search Web Services (SWS)

-- Vinod Chachra (VTLS) on Harvesting Data In Multiple Formats For Discovery
-- Karen Hawkins (IEEE) on Scitopia
-- Peter Murray (OhioLINK) on Discovery Tools & the OPAC
-- Michael Winkler (University of Pennsylvania Libraries) on PennTags

-- Eric Schnell (The Ohio State University) and-Dave Munger 
(ResearchBlogging.org) on BPR3:
Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting

To register or for more information, visit the event webpage
(http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/discovery08/) or contact 
Karen Wetzel,
NISO Standards Program Manager, at kwetzel_at_niso.org.

Thank you to our generous sponsors: EBSCO Information Services and Ex 
Libris are major
sponsors of the Discovery Tools forum and Innovative Interfaces is 
sponsoring the breaks.



Note: This announcement was cross-posted.

Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson_at_niso.org <mailto:chodgson_at_niso.org>
Phone: 301-654-2512



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