Three FREE December NISO Virtual Events – ResourceSync, Bibliographic Roadmap, Altmetrics
NISO will be holding free virtual events related to three projects underway. Please be sure to RSVP (as noted for each) if you plan to participate so that you will be sent the login and access information. All three events will be recorded, with the recording posted on the NISO website, but we encourage your live participation.
Event: ResourceSync Standard Training Webinar
Date: December 3, 2013
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (ET)
Webpage: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/resourcesync/
RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/resourcesync-webinar
About the Event
The ResourceSync Framework Specification (NISO Z39.99-201x) is in the final stages of editing and approval to become an American National standard. It describes a synchronization framework for the web consisting of various capabilities that allow third party systems to remain synchronized with a server's evolving resources. The capabilities can be combined in a modular manner to meet local or community requirements. This specification also describes how a server can advertise the synchronization capabilities it supports and how third party systems can discover this information. The specification repurposes the document formats defined by the Sitemap protocol and introduces extensions for them.
In this webinar, ResourceSync core team members Bernhard Haslhofer and Simeon Warner will review the standard and provide practical examples and scenarios for its application. There will be time allotted for a Q&A discussion.
ResourceSync is a joint NISO and Open Archives Initiative (OAI) project that is partially funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Event: NISO Bibliographic Development Roadmap Project Discussion Webinar
Date: December 5, 2013
Time: 1:00 - 2:00PM (ET)
Webpage: http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/BibliographicRoadmap/
RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FH2V23B
About the Event
NISO is developing a community roadmap that will help support movement toward a future bibliographic information exchange ecosystem. A two-day in-person meeting was held on April 15-16 to kick off the project with input from experts around the world about needed areas of focus, research, and standards development to effectively transform how bibliographic data is created, exchanged, and managed in the linked web world. The input from this meeting—some 40 project ideas in 15 categories--has been compiled at NISO’s IdeaScale Input Forum. (Community members are encouraged to visit the forum and “vote” on the ideas.)
Obviously, in an environment of limited resources, not every one of these projects can be acted upon or pursued. This next phase of the project will be to collectively prioritize these potential activity streams. The December webinar will focus on this prioritization and provide participants with an opportunity to discuss and give feedback on the ideas. This feedback will be used to shape the recommendations in the final Bibliographic Roadmap report.
The NISO Bibliographic Roadmap project is funded with a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Event: NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project Second In-person Meeting and Livestream
Date: December 11, 2013
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET)
Webpage: http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/
RSVP: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HCX8BGY
About the Event
NISO is undertaking a two-phase initiative to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics in the community. This initiative was a direct outgrowth of a breakout discussion group during the altmetrics 12 meeting in Chicago, IL. This project is an important step in the development and adoption of new assessment metrics, which include usage-based metrics, social media references, and network behavioral analysis. In addition, this project will explore potential assessment criteria for non-traditional research outputs, such as data sets, visualizations, software, and other applications.
The first phase of the project involves several in-person meetings (which are also livestreamed) to identify and prioritize potential standardization projects. In the second phase, the prioritized and approved standards/best practices will be developed by appointed working groups of volunteers.
This event is the second in-person meeting, which will be held in Washington, DC. (There are still a few slots for in-person attendees, available on a first come-first serve basis.) The event will be livestreamed to interested virtual attendees who will also have opportunities to participate directly. The agenda of this one-day meeting will include a short opening keynote on the topic of assessment, lightning talks on related projects, brainstorming for identification of topics for discussion, and prioritizing of proposed work items.
This project is funded through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson@niso.org
301-654-2512