NISO/BISG 8th Annual Forum:  The Changing Standards Landscape:
Managing an Increasingly Complex and Interconnected World of Content

Date: Friday, June 27, 2014
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Las Vegas, NV, LVCC - N231-233

Event Description

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and Book Industry Study Group (BISG) have again partnered to explore how these trends impact publishing, libraries, and technology standards in the 8th Annual Changing Standards Landscape Forum. This year’s event will focus on Managing an Increasingly Complex and Interconnected World of Content.

Digital content creation, distribution, and access is a worldwide endeavor that is much more complex than printing and shipping physical books or journals. Identification, description, file formats, purchasing models, and measurement have all been transformed by the trends of globalization and digitization of content distribution. For each of these trends, the role of standards in making these processes more efficient is a critical element and something all publishers and librarians should follow closely. Both communities have a lot to learn from each other regarding how standards work undertaken in the publishing community affects libraries and vice-versa.

Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions – Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and Len Vlahos, Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group (BISG)
• Thema: The New Global Standard for Subject Classification – Julie Morris, Project Manager: Standards & Best Practices, BISG
• Linked Content Coalition: Rights Management Tools – Linked Content Coalition Board Member
• EPUB: Walled Gardens and the Readium Foundation – Readium Foundation Representative
• New Forms of Discovery and Purchasing in Libraries: Demand Driven Acquisitions – Michael Levine-Clark, Professor / Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services, University of Denver Libraries
• Where Digital is Going? E-book Adoption by the Numbers – Len Vlahos, Executive Director, BISG
• Assessing Digital Output in New Ways – Mike Taylor, Research Specialist, Elsevier Labs

Registration

Please RSVP  here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S7CVTZ3. This event is free of charge; however, we would like to get an estimated count of attendance for logistical purposes. For more information, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/alaannual/2014nisobisgforum/

This event is sponsored by Bowker, a ProQuest affiliate.

Cynthia Hodgson

Technical Editor / Consultant

National Information Standards Organization

chodgson@niso.org

301-654-2512