NISO Discovery Tools Forum – Early Bird Discount Extended to March 19

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Date:  Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:58:17 -0500
Subject:  NISO Discovery Tools Forum – Early Bird Discount Extended to 
March 19
From:  Cynthia Hodgson (NISO) <chodgson_at_niso.org>

Early bird discounted registration for the NISO forum, “Next Generation 
Discovery: New
Tools, Aging Standards,” has been extended to March 19. 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 regisration 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
-- John G. Dove (Credo Reference) on The Future of Reference in an 
Online World
-- 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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